Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stanley

You always have God's undivided attention.

Alan Watts

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

Alan Perlis

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

China Mieville

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

C. J. Mahaney

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

Laurie Sabourin

The postures are unfamiliar, we have to pay attention and focus. It?s not like being on a treadmill at the gym. We all know how to walk. Yoga is so foreign that you need to concentrate. The postures kind of sneak meditation in through the back door.

Kyle Johnson

The point is, somebody else is in need and in a grave condition. You want to focus on that and make sure that the person gets the attention that he needs.

Ernie Johnson

The only reason I'm bringing my condition to your attention now is because the swelling of a lymph node near my left ear has become noticeable to viewers of TNT, and there have been questions asked. My plan is to work the rest of the NBA season and playoffs, go to the beach with my wife, Cheryl, and our four kids, and start a treatment regimen in late June, which will likely include chemotherapy. And then I'll go back to work.

Arundhati Roy

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Edy Ganem

I use the Clairsonic Cleansing system to wash my face three times a week.

Morihei Ueshiba

The only cure for materialism is the cleansing of the six sense (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind). If the senses are clogged, one's perception is stifled. The more it is stifled, the more contaminated the sense become. This creates disorder in the world, and that is the greatest evil of all.

Javier Solana

Now what we want to do is be able to attack, from the airplanes, their headquarters, their commanders which are underground so that we can stop the tremendous ethnic cleansing which is now taking place on the ground,

Bianca Lawson

I've been using the same thing I've used since I was a teenager, which is Cetaphil. I love Cetaphil's cleansing cream, face cream and aloe vera gel. Those are the three things I always use.

Marla Shavin

Worldly influences, feminine details and cleansing colors of spring will encourage women to discover something new.

Javier Solana

We will see ethnic cleansing reversed, ... I think it will be before wintertime, no question about that.

Valerie Hoffman

This wonderful plant has so many uses and yet is often neglected in our society. The primary use of the dandelion plant is for its superior liver cleansing qualities. The plant is a powerhouse of nutrients!

Reza Aslan

'Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.

Deborah Ellis

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

Eion Bailey

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Stockwell Day

Since 1962, violent crimes have increased from about 219 per 100,000 people to over 1000 per 100,000 people-a 500% increase. Divorce has increased from 36 per 10,000 people to 250-a greater than 600% increase.

Craig Etcheson

We have investigated that back and forth and up and down, and there's just no evidence that he was involved in any prosecutable crimes during the period of jurisdiction for the tribunal. He looks clean.

S. J. Rozan

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

Del Quentin Wilber

Evidence from mobile devices has provided critical help in solving crimes ranging from homicides to drug trafficking.

Mark Godsey

The database is very important on solving old crimes and new crimes. It's also important for protecting innocence.

Steve Camp

The crimes which I'm guilty of were several years ago and nothing since.

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

Luc Montagnier

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.

Brenda Powell

The postures are designed in a specific sequence to make sure all the muscle groups are being hit, and the immune system and internal organs.

Guy Gavriel Kay

When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

Michael Unzueta

Whether they are designed to smuggle drugs, people, weapons or other contraband, these tunnels pose a threat to our nation's security.

Michael Griffin

What we're really developing is the shuttle's successor, ... The CEV is designed to go to low-Earth orbit.

Erik Lomis

We're going to make money with this picture. It was designed so that if it (grossed) $20 million or more we would do well. From what we know right now, it's going to go significantly north of that.

David Wray

The plan will be designed to ensure that none of these (and other) limits are violated.

S. Jay Olshansky

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

Peter Fonda

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Archie Panjabi

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Archie Panjabi

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

Aziz Ansari

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Doug Gay

(The patrol force) is pretty extensive, ... You are putting ethnic groups together ... It is quite a mix.

Ann Coulter

The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals

Miroslav Volf

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

Norman Finkelstein

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

Ariel Pink

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

Rocco Buttiglione

We request ... the return of all the material that proves to have come from the illegal market,

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Alexander Woollcott

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Robin Cook

We are looking for a strong declaration that there must be a return to the rule of law and an end to the illegal occupation of the farms,

Al Michaels

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

Chloe Sevigny

The media loves negative spin.

Dave Barry

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Dave Barry

Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.

David Talbot

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

David Sanborn

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

David Puttnam

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

David Puttnam

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

David Nail

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Frank Quattrone

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

Nathaniel Philbrick

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

Warren Littlefield

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

Aaron Patzer

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

Bennie Thompson

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

James Wilcox

We want to make sure we're on the same page,

Steve Cox

We want to make sure we get them in preseason.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

Charles Stanley

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Charles Spurgeon

Great faith must have great trials.

Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Bill McCollum

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Patsy Ramsey

let's have a trial and get it over with

Richard G. Scott

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.

Ann Coulter

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.