Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Crowley

We have no indication that any of the information's been misused. We went back and monitored activity in accounts since the theft, and we find nothing to indicate there's any unusual or suspicious activity.

David Popenoe

What they picked up on is the difference between the red and the blue states. What accounts for all these differences? It's a mix of religion and ethnicity and class and so on.

Alexander Savenkov

Unfortunately, no tangible breakthrough was made with regard to crime in the army, where hazing accounts for 25% of crimes. Altogether, 2,609 servicemen were convicted of crimes of this kind.

Don Blandin

With what's happening in the market, we see that confidence is going down in terms of older Americans feeling comfortable with their nest eggs. We got ourselves into a period of false confidence, expecting double-digit returns on all our investments. Now, we are seeing people reassessing where they are with respect to what the market is doing and what the economy is doing as they see their 401(k) funds and IRA accounts go south.

Haley Barbour

We know we've had some loss of life. We really don't know how much. There are credible accounts of 50 to 80 in Harrison County. Those are not confirmed, but they're credible,

Sander Levin

The plan outlined today is riddled with uncertainty for everyone: for those who are counting on a guaranteed benefit it would bring uncertainty by making Social Security's shortfall worse; for those who might hold a private account, it would bring uncertainty about how the accounts would be funded after the surplus is exhausted,

Rebecca MacKinnon

There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.

Rick Schlesinger

We're seeing the strongest interest in being involved with the team since I've been here. We are working on some national accounts that normally only look at Chicago or Minneapolis. A lot of doors that have been closed in the past are suddenly open.

Sharron Angle

I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Alan Bennett

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Graeber

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Suzuki

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Cesare Pavese

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.

Charles Fuller

What we called ourselves in 1944 - colored or Negro - we don't do anymore. Where we are now is not where we were then. It's very important for young people to understand that.

Carol W. Greider

As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.

Walter Dean Myers

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.

Paul Robeson

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

Channing Tatum

I just love cake, confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and then you get the confetti icing, which is really hard to find sometimes. It's really hard to explain to people, because it's not icing with sprinkles on top. It's icing that actually has candies inside of it. It's Funfetti icing.

Marcia Gay Harden

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

Bill Hader

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

Francia Raisa

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

Nathan Fielder

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

Harry Lloyd

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

Tuppence Middleton

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

John Eaton

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

Rocky Carroll

There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you're sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That's where drama comes from.

Mary Pope Osborne

When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

Bill Boynton

We?re interested, maybe intrigued, but not to the extent we would pursue it.

Rob Lowe

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Ned Collins

With the market's oversold condition, a small rally is expected. The extent has surprised everybody.

Lowell Peterson

We're hoping that that money will make its way to the workers, ... To some extent that is out of our hands.

Sherry Jeffe

Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.

Jim Johnstone

We've never been threatened to the extent that Katrina and Rita did, ... Unfortunately we're not going to have a true test of the system until that occurs.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

Gary David Goldberg

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Adam Allen

When you think of all the teams and we're the only two left in 4A, it's unreal. To be one of those two teams ... it's awesome.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Nathan Parsons

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

Robin Williams

What's right is what's left when everything is wrong.

William Mitchell

What's left is his, ... So, the man isn't getting rich.

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Ann Jones

we have neglected that area. And it will take a big project to really turn it around.

Debbie Carter

She did not look like she was neglected in any way.

Sue Kelly

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Ariel Sharon

Now they're really disillusioned with him because he is doing the opposite. They feel quite neglected because the state used to nourish them. But at the end of the day, they are a small hard-core.

Edwin Morgan

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Darryl Paulson

For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have to go to work to support the family,

John Updike

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

L. Ron Hubbard

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Chris Christie

As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Camille Paglia

Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

Catherine Tate

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

Bill Johnson

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Brigham Young

We went west willingly--because we had to.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.