Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Lewis

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

Oleg Orlov

Only the most outrageous, truly inadmissible limitations on the rights of international organizations were dropped. The bill still provides for widespread and arbitrary repression of Russian and international NGOs.

Francis Gaskins

On the face of it, it looks like it should be shorted -- not bought. It's the most arbitrary pricing I've ever seen.

Christopher Shays

I would be inclined to support gas tax relief on the House floor, but I would prefer the reinstatement of the gas tax be based on price, not an arbitrary time frame,

Vint Cerf

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

Levi Woodbury

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.

Paul Krell

We're not going to be tied to an arbitrary date on the calendar. We haven't scheduled it yet. If it's needed we want to make sure it has maximum impact.

Mark McKinnon

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

Johann Most

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

Rick Perlstein

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.

Robert Wilson

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

Kumail Nanjiani

When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

Jeff Pulver

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

Sandy Alomar

Life is based on your self-confidence. When you trust yourself, that means you know you can do things. If you don't have that trust, that means you're always going to have doubts in your mind.

Guido Mantega

Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

Matthew Peterson

Life events may force you to rethink that plan, ... Don't rethink your plan based on what's happening on the market.

Phil Garner

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

William Ward

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

Alexandra Paul

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Larry Wachtel

Low-end consumers, the ones that spend every penny of their paycheck, are really hurting with these gasoline prices.

John Griffin

Self-service gas stations started in Michigan, and most other states, in the 1970s.

Frank Darabont

Mission Impossible 3 was actually a total gas for me. It was really fun.

Ted Falgout

Monday morning, take every penny in your wallet and invest in oil, because the hurricane is projected to come in in the heart of the gas and oil port. Prices are going to go up.

Guy Gleichmann

Natural gas isn't going to get any help from overseas.

James Williams

Natural gas in storage remains very high for this time of year and the most recent production numbers indicate that, had it not been for the hurricane production, would have been much higher in 2005 than 2004.

Anette Einarsen

Natural gas and weather are the most important drivers. When it's warmer, we don't see that much substitution and natural gas has less influence on heating oil. Stocks aren't that tight.

Ron Hays

I feel that gas prices are going to skyrocket because the hurricane's supposed to hit tonight.

Samuel Coleridge

Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still

Kathy Griffin

Look, you guys, I know I'm not Courteney Cox. But I'm telling you, the house is better than me. They were like, 'I don't think so.'

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" life. Me around the house is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" dad.

Waris Ahluwalia

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

Derek Ambrose

My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.

Jamie Wyeth

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

John Tesh

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

John Sutton

Maybe he's not as inclined to question the who, what, where, when and how first,

Jessica Biel

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

Jim Talent

I don't know why there weren't plans, ... If there had been and they were inadequate, I'd be inclined to say nobody's perfect - but it just seemed like they weren't doing anything.

Sivamani

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

Leon Redbone

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

John Fiske

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

Tom Rogers

People will be much more inclined to watch broadband-delivered video if it shows up on the TV screen.

Marty Kaplan

People are inclined to have buyer's remorse about him. Most people are going to show up with a mood, and they're going to vote their mood, which is anti-Schwarzenegger.

Mike Leavitt

People are not inclined to produce products for which there is no market,

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Ted Ligety

I would prefer to win standing up to him.

Jeffrey Skilling

I would prefer they not know I'm considering selling.

Peter Hain

I would prefer that it wasn't there. I would prefer it was closed, yes.

Cate Blanchett

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

James Lindsay

If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.

Johan Reinhard

I'd much prefer that they not be displayed, just because of all of the headaches.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Kristine Fauerbach

We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Dennis Whitling

My inclination is to support this letter, and support it now.

Ron Wilson

Obviously, it was an ugly scene. But I support (Parker) 100 percent.

Dennis Weaver

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Maria Zampaglione

If an outbreak of avian influenza were to be proven, there would be a lot of support needed.

Kevin Browne

If an immigration makes things better for them in the country, we will support it.

Dave Morin

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Abraham Lincoln

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Scott Strauss

I got to support my family. That's how I was raised.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Ambrose Bierce

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.