Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maajid Nawaz

The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

R. Ingram

We abhor crime, abuse and violence against anyone, but under the current proposal do not support elevating one group as a protected class over another and support the concept of equal protection under the law for all.

John Wycliffe

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.

John Rash

Nature and TV abhor a vacuum and one was quickly created with the merger that spawned the CW.

M. Thompson

The PAS system is perfect for anyone who abhors prospecting, selling, and closing deals. When you use PAS, you never have to cold-call strangers or attend boring sales meetings. Their expert staff does it all for you.

Michael Shermer

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

J. M. Coetzee

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

Regina Vidaver

To me the fact that we don't have a screening test for the biggest cancer killer in the nation is the best indicator of how little resources have been put toward this disease. It is absolutely abhorrent to me that we don't have a screening test for this disease.

Terence Winter

Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.

Shimon Peres

We were at the point where all of us could have lost control of the situation, and the bloodshed reached an unbelievable proportion. ... we pray for a day without funerals.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

There is no individual on this Earth more determined than I am to end this country's wretched and mindless bloodshed and destruction.

Krishna Sitaula

There has been so much bloodshed and yet he does not even express any sympathy for the thousands of people who have died since he started his authoritarian rule.

Osama Laden

We call all humanitarians and those who carry peace to the world to intervene to stop the repeated bloodshed in the western parts of Iraq, ... And we say to the American occupiers to get out and leave Iraq to the Iraqis.

Paul Harris

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

Patrick Chappatte

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

David Berkowitz

Sudden death and bloodshed appealed to me.

Edward Caraballo

They said there would be a lot of bloodshed and I would be one of the first to go.

Chidchai Vanasathidya

Foreign countries should trust us, because we have preserved democratic rule without any bloodshed in a time of crisis and chaos.

Helen Clark

would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

John Koskinen

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

Haim Ramon

I have many doubts we can reach a joint diplomatic platform, but I think we need to try.

Marshall Brickman

We had to be diplomatic and discreet, for the protection of the authors.

Christopher Hill

Why are they so single-minded? We want to solve this problem diplomatically, but everyone has to have an interest in doing this through diplomatic means.

Adam Ereli

We are seeking a diplomatic solution to this problem.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

Nicholas Burns

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

Chris Christie

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

John Reid

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

Fadel Gheit

Until and unless the stalemate with Iran is resolved one way or the other, I think we're going to see prices higher.

Argus Hamilton

President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran.

Bahman Ghobadi

Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

Bill Maher

Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

J. C. Watts

I'm a strong Liberal. I've voted Liberal all my life. I probably will again. But not this time. It's time for a change.

Clint Eastwood

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

P. J. O'Rourke

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

David Mamet

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Muriel Humphrey

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.

Joseph Mercurio

He is firming up his support from liberal women.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Ha-Joon Chang

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Golan Levin

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. I'm off the privilege notion now; I'm on to fairness.

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.