Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Hayward

The problem with the Moodies is not what to play, it's what to leave out! That's always difficult. We stopped having support acts many years ago just because of that. We needed getting on to two hours; there's such a big catalog to call on.

Brad Adams

There is compelling evidence suggesting that U.S. personnel have committed acts against detainees amounting to torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.

Samuel Smiles

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Eric Whitacre

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

Kaki King

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

Karen Abbott

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

Robert Witt

We want the best and brightest students. I have a very inclusive definition of best and brightest. Of course that includes ACTs and test scores. But it also includes the character prospective students display. That shows there's a place for them at the university.

Maurice Healy

The position on homosexual acts is pretty well founded. It won't change until Dignity drops their rationale, which is contrary to Catholic teaching.

Tricia Nguyen

We have just as good a chance to book these acts as anybody else would.

Suzanne Fields

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.

Timothy Noah

Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you.

Carl Jung

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

Roger Pilon

With today's decision, no one's property is safe, since any time a government official thinks someone else can make better use of your property than you're doing, he can order it condemned and transferred.

Bernard Ebbers

WorldCom condemns unauthorized carrier switches, and we cooperated fully with the FCC's review, ... The incidents highlighted by the FCC were perpetrated by a few sales employees, who have since been terminated.

Margaret MacDonald

There are low views of God's holiness, and a ceasing to condemn sin in the flesh, and a looking from him who humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation.

Jacques Chirac

France in the strongest possible way condemns these hateful acts,

Yasser Arafat

I don't know. But you know we have condemned this. And not only that, I gave instructions to search who had sent this.

MoliFre

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Iyad Allawi

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

Larry Brown

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

Sean Howard

We won't stand for cowardly acts. We just want this rash of violence to end in our community.

Sartaj Aziz

The responsibility for this wanton and cowardly act, as well as its consequences, rests squarely with India. Pakistan reserves the right to make an appropriate response in self-defense.

James Kallstrom

You've got people that not only are willing to give up their lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane.

Robert Kiyosaki

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Laith Kubba

Muslim extremists will be surrounded then wiped out,

Ron Lewis

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

Najib Razak

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.

Najib Razak

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.

Jack Rosen

He's going to be speaking to a constituency that's been demonized by many extremists in the Muslim world.

Cheryl Sabel

The anti-choice forces are political extremists and religious fundamentalists, who are looking to make women subservient, powerless and unequal.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia-based and funded organizations remain a key source for the promotion of ideologies used by terrorists and violent extremists around the world to justify their hate-filled agenda.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Marlene Rosenberg

We want everyone to be welcome to Beth Zion. That is a big message of Messiah.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Mark Phelan

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

Elizabeth Kenny

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Carlos Ghosn

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Bob Corker

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

Matthew Dowd

We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,

Drew Barrymore

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

George S. Patton

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

John Podhoretz

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Aasif Mandvi

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Janos Bolyai

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

Eckhart Tolle

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

Jane Campion

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Jane Goodall

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Jamie Foxx

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

Camille Paglia

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Camille Paglia

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?

Carl Jung

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror