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.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Deepak Chopra

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

Elizabeth Baker

I don't have other salespeople in here wondering what's going in and out. I keep track of what's selling.

Tom Jenkinson

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

Carol Foreman

We're not going to get everything we want and the track will not get everything it wants. There's going to be compromise.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Carl Lewis

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.