Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Mollohan

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Alan Autry

We want them to be productive in the community,

Carmen Garcia

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

Karen Alexander

Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state,

Dhani Harrison

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

David Allen

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community...

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

E. Hicks

I talked to a local person who's into philanthropy for a defibrillator.

Sarah Waters

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

Ratu Tavanavanua

I think there's enough local talent out there for us to make an assessment.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised. I think things were troubling him from his local detractors.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Evan Snapper

But there are occasions when separate filings make more sense. For example, when one taxpayer has lot of itemized deductions and the other taxpayer has very little income.

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

Michael Starke

I thought we rose to the occasion and played well.

John Neff

(We can put together something) for any occasion you'd want to give a gift,

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Albert Carlson

Obviously, some temporary stuff would have been pulled out, but anything permanent would have stayed, and we would have benefited from that.

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

Dalai Lama

Nothing is permanent.

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Larry Sabato

It's permanent now in peoples' minds. It will be in his obituary.

Charles Jones

It's like a permanent campaign. You need to sell yourself on each policy.

Rob Mullens

They don't have a permanent license, but they do get first shot.

Charles Elachi

We really do have a permanent presence around that planet.

Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

James E. Rogers

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Tom Skerritt

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Dale Lindsey

When he's 100 percent, he has rare talent athletically.

Aaron Peirsol

I think it's rare you surprise yourself like that,

Kevin Constantine

That will be very rare and very welcome. It's been very unusual when we've had to do that.

E. B. White

This was a scary and rare occurrence, not a pattern.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

Joe Thornton

There are a lot of distractions with homecoming. Hopefully, we can shelter them as much as we can from that.

Charles R. Swindoll

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Armistead Maupin

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Alice Morse Earle

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Alice Munro

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

Aloe Blacc

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

David Spade

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

Dee Crumpler

It's not a shelter problem. It's a community-wide problem.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Paul Duca

For April, it's as big as it's going to get. You have to dethrone those guys. They're the team to beat. They've been there 13, 14 straight years now. So this is big. Take them any way you can get them.

Jennifer Dunn

We've tried to make it very visual and interesting.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.