Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Louis Stokes

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Michel Patini

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Maajid Nawaz

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

John LaFontaine

The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.

Orlando Early

The other team is always going to make a run. The key to being a heavyweight champion is to fight back and stand up against the punches.

Chris Connolly

The other side of the coin is that we had a terrific win against Adelaide, and every player deserve to continue on. So it is pretty tight.

Benj Steinman

The positive thing to note is that they actually had improving results as the year went on. But they were going against a very easy comparison -- they were down 3% in last year's fourth quarter.

Michael Specter

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

Jay Francis

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

Melanie Hill

We are looking in the future to expand it to other branches of the armed forces.

Li Bingbing

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

Nicolas Maduro

President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible. Europe should think about the bombings and the destruction of Libya that filled the country with terrorists. Who's truly ruling Libya's military and sending thousands of armed men to fight in Syria? It's Al Qaeda.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to re-implement a draft. There is no need for it at all, ... The disadvantages of using compulsion to bring into the armed forces the men and women needed are notable.

Muqtada al Sadr

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

Fouad Siniora

We expressed our views that the presence of armed personnel and armaments outside the camps is not necessary and not helpful, ... As for the presence of armed personnel within the camps, this is going to be looked at in order to organize it.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade.

Dore Gold

We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.

Kirk Hanson

The potential for conflict of interest is greater today than it's ever been.

Sheikh Rashid

We have no desire to become involved in a heated conflict. We will do whatever it takes to defend our country.

Janet Howard

Whether they're able to do under the ethics statute or not, it's a plain conflict of interest.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

Ricardo Sanchez

We're fighting a low-intensity conflict that is multifaceted,

Sergei Kupriyanov

Ukraine refused, which shows that the Ukrainian authorities planned a conflict from the very beginning, i.e. to tap, or rather steal, gas intended for European consumers.

Richard G. Scott

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Chris Christie

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Louis Stokes

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Lyndon Johnson

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Adlai E. Stevenson

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

Fred Siegel

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

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,

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Anacharsis Anacharsis

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

Charles Stanley

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Akhmad Kadyrov

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Chris Christie

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Chris Christie

We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Chief Seattle

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

Chesty Puller

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

Chesty Puller

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

Chester W. Nimitz

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

Chester W. Nimitz

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

Carlos Ghosn

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Bob Corker

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

Drew Barrymore

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Matthew Dowd

We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,

Napoleon Bonaparte

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

George S. Patton

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Iain Banks

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Scott Andreassi

She was treated no differently than any other individual.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Marc Bulger

We treated this like a regular-season game. Whether they did or not, who knows?

John Macdonald

We treated this (bar) just like any other licensee.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Cass Sunstein

Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment.

Ban Ki-moon

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Jose Pertierra

If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.

Hillary Clinton

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.