Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Terry Abbott

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Ed DeChellis

Last year, they knew exactly what they were doing. This year, this guy's starting, that guy's starting, probably because that's just the way it is. They're trying to find the right mixture.

David Cobb

Many people still don't know exactly what Goodwill does for the community. We are trying to pair local faces with our mission.

Ray Allen

Mike would spend the night at the house. We'd stay up late and then get up in the morning and go to practice. Everything he did just emulated exactly what I was doing out there on the floor and you see what he can do now.

John Kelly

Mr. Simpson, isn't this exactly what happened on June 12, 1994?

Emily Oster

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

Gwen Stefani

(My inspiration) was so strong with 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and it was just like I had such a fire of inspiration.

Doug Trantham

One of the things I actually learned to some extent from Doc Watson most of us hate amplification anyway, and I think a lot of people tend not to spend a lot of time working with that. He won't start until the sound is right, and that's exactly what he needs to do.

Richard Greene

No one can say what exactly is going to happen.

Joan Collins

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

Robert Brady

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

Maria Altmann

I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.

Walter Salles

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Joanne Wheeler

You know, in New Port Richey, Florida, I don't know.

Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Arthur Miller

I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has

Anatoly Chubais

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

Martin Freeman

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

Leslie Moonves

I'm sure there are things we can add, ... There will be synergies in production and potentially with our on-camera people. We like what they've done. We've watched it as it evolved, but I couldn't have predicted that it would become what it is now.