Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Christopher

We urge the President of India not to give his assent to this undemocratic legislation, and initiate public debate on the complex causes of conflict, rather than treat it as a law and order problem.

Pat Martin

I think it has a snowball's chance in hell of getting royal assent by June. Perhaps the most compelling point that Mr. Reid makes is the glaring contrast between the Conservative platform promises and what we actually find in the Accountability Act.

Francis Spufford

I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary.

Marquis de Lafayette

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

Emily Dickinson

Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Kurt Burkhart

There are some climbs but not much for these riders. A lot of those guys will probably be going up in their big chain rings a lot of these climbs.

Dennis Johnson

We also worked on the church property taming a forest of uprooted trees. Huge trees -- 20 feet tall -- had been snapped off and just the trunks were sitting there. We went in with a Bobcat and chain saws to clear up the church's wooded property.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Lin Shaye

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.'

Andy Heyward

We're looking at the entire food chain of children's and family entertainment.

Tim Flock

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Gabrielle Union

I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

Alain Robert

Life has to be dangerous.

Todd Matthews

We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March.

Todd Matthews

We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.

Steve Manzuik

There are some extremely smart hackers out there using and sharing the tools that find these vulnerabilities. When Microsoft takes a long time to issue fixes, it sets up a dangerous situation,

Craig White

We spread them out and made the extra pass in the second half. The first half was one pass and one shot. You got to at least make them play defense, we didn't do that in the first half. We could have been pretty dangerous tonight if we played all 32 minutes.

Bertrand Russell

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

Charlie Munger

It's dangerous to short stocks.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Populism is dangerous.

Adam Schultz

We want to make sure things are handled appropriately and fairly.

Davis III

When I looked up and saw his face, I knew he thought he hadn't said it was good, ... It was my fault. That's the way it goes. He handled it real well.

Jerry Clements

She handled small matters. Somebody needed a divorce, somebody needed an adoption.

Frank Penela

Most of the things that people go into an office for can be handled online. You can renew registration, get a title, renew your registration, all without standing in line.

Anne McLellan

were handled in accordance with normal operating procedures.

Alan Thompson

When Thorpe pulled out and he (Monk) went into those two (races), he was thrust into the limelight and I think he has handled that very well.

Doug Johnson

She's handled (not starting) very well. And it's paying off this year.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Brooke Shields

I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

A. J. Liebling

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.

Ian Bogost

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

John Updike

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Jacque Fresco

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

Rebecca Hall

No family is sane, is it?

Robert Bloch

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.