Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Bonnefous

Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.

Mark Allison

Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their peaceful activities without fear of arbitrary detention, harassment or other human rights violations.

Kurt Eichenwald

If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.

John Carlisle

If Bank of America and other companies think they are buying peace from reparations activists with these million-dollar contributions, they are in for a rude surprise.

Rebecca MacKinnon

On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities.

Jim Dyke

Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.

Cathleen Schine

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Krishna Sitaula

The policemen followed them in a white van and one of them fired at the activists from close distance, but they managed to escape unhurt.

Nina Easton

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.

Edward Carpenter

Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

Byron Dorgan

Seniors should not be coerced into an HMO in order to get drug coverage, ... Is the White House Backing Away from a Comprehensive Medicare Drug Benefit?

Kelsey Lavender

Mentally we know we can beat (teams) and we have confidence in ourselves. Our coach is backing us up.

Tiger Woods

More than the length, it's the fact that every ball is backing up. Every ball picked up mud. That's the hardest thing in the world. You can have length, and you can have longer shots to the green, but if you don't have a clean ball, it makes for a very difficult golf shot.

Mark Obrinsky

Mortgage rates have dropped, yes, but a weak economy means people lose jobs or feel insecure in their jobs. Some potential buyers may end up backing off from a purchase. When the economy picks up after a slowdown, interest rates usually rise, but that doesn't stop people from buying.

Robert Tompkins

Ned was trying to get (the boys off him). I jumped in at the last moment as they were backing off and pushed them off, ... I physically lifted (Ned) out of the water and carried him out. He would have drowned if I hadn't been there. He was unconscious and under the water.

Jim Corridore

Obviously oil backing down a little today allows investors to focus more on the relatively strong earnings performances last week.

Charles Portis

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

get rid of our dependence on oil and move toward clean, renewable domestic energy policies.

Richard Segal

From an investor's point of view, it will do us well to reduce our dependence on the United States market.

Chris Chocola

We need to move away from our dependence on foreign sources of energy, and instead utilize the energy resources we have right here at home.

Tim Holden

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Bobby Bowden

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

Robert Hall

Our long-term goal is to minimize dependence on fossil fuels, and we will get there by deploying a wide variety of new automotive technologies in our fleet.

Tim Pawlenty

Today, Minnesota takes another step toward reducing our dependence on foreign oil while improving our environment and our rural economy,

Nathanael Greene

Energy dependence is America's economic, environmental and security Achilles' heel.

Brian Jennings

Ethanol needs to be part of the goal that helps reduce our major dependence of foreign oil. We've never said that ethanol would be the only alternative ... it's just the most viable alternative we have in the United States today.

David Scurto

Make sure you have the willpower of your elected officials and the people.

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Marie Wilson

Maybe we can actually use this show to get that tippy point over and have a woman elected to office.

Laurent Gbagbo

Of course, because he was elected in October 2000 and in principle his mandate runs until 2005.

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Oscar Fonseca

From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Rica.

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Fred Jordan

I feel this is taking a step backwards. An employee of a person who is an elected official could have his opinion swayed.

Michael Hendricks

Somebody finally had the intelligent idea to remember that Harper isn't elected yet. That seemed to secure everybody. They quieted down and the subject hasn't come up again. Just that one shot.

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Cecil Roberts

What's Jerry Kilgore doing? Standing on the stage with somebody who wants to take your Social Security,

Masayoshi Son

Jack, Jerry and I had been talking about the merger for a while, ... Jerry and I would like to leave the operation up to Jack. We trust his skills.

Phil Jackson

He (Lakers owner Jerry Buss) knew what he was trying to get accomplished, but still in all, it never quite seems to match up.

Jerry Magoon

Jerry was enthusiastically voted into the permanent position by the board.

Tom Cruise

Jerry Maguire: Jump in my nightmare, the water's warm!

Bill Gray

Jerry Lamb was one of my heroes. He wouldn't let us lose.

Peter Roth

Jerry is the architect; Jonathan is the contractor.

Drake Bell

I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

Michael Cudlitz

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

Paul Gibson

Like him or not, John Parks has prevailed at every turn.

Stanley Collender

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

Dick Cheney

Senator John McCain put it best: it is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people,

John Heywood

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

John Heywood

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Skip Bertman

No one has called me. But I think this shows what people think about John as a coach.

Brooks Boyer

Obviously, I'm disappointed because I'd love to keep John and Ed together.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

John Edward

We need a president who will keep you safe. John Kerry will do that,

John Dowd

McCain told me this was worse than being in the Hanoi Hilton.

Gore Vidal

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

Warren Tompkins

Having run before and served in the U.S. Senate, McCain will start out as a front-runner nationally and that translates to South Carolina.

Paul Broun

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Eric Bolling

What did [Donald] Trump say about John McCain?

John Dickerson

The McCain people are chalking up Tuesday as nothing to worry about.

Sarah Palin

John McCain has already tapped me

Steve Young

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Laura Bush

Roberts' nomination was the result of surprise, not consultation,

Jim Bunning

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Charles Krauthammer

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

Howard Dean

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

Michael Caine

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

Jerry Seinfeld

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

Frankie Muniz

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

Roger Ebert

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Mike Sheffield

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

Gerhard Schroeder

One can never tell how long one will have to remain in office as caretaker,

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Deng Xiaoping

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Eleanor Clift

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Reed Baker

If a person is really sick, you don't want them in the office because you don't want the whole staff to go down.

Ed Miliband

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Robert Davies

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Alan Doss

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

Bible Bible

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Bible Bible

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Karl Hobbs

Let's have some poise. Let's have some patience.

Michael Moore

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Pat Robertson

Secretary Rumsfeld was in the region saying Venezuela is a menace, a threat to regional stability. Rev. Pat Robertson said that is true, therefore, rather than pay the price of war, let us assassinate him.

Bill Cowher

Mr. Rooney was very supportive through three non-playoff years (1998-2000), and I'm very appreciative of his patience.

Rig Veda

May you be intelligent, provider of wealth and protector of the path of truth.

Rig Veda

One should always speak the truth and tread incessantly on the path of righteousness.

Charles Spurgeon

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

Denis Diderot

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Chris Crutcher

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Chris Crutcher

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Kevin Blackwell

Getting back to the Premiership will be a big test but what we have shown here is resilience. Previously we have tended to be seen as soft touches.

Nikki Fennern

From what I've seen thus far, we've got a lot of options.

Mickey Loomis

From what I've seen on TV, what we can all see, that's what you would speculate. It doesn't look very good.

Brian Palma

If anyone's been around some very long cocaine evenings, there's nothing that's in SCARFACE that we all haven't seen before.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Ludwig von Mises

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.