Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dicker

The proceedings must be fair and be seen to be fair, and that means ensuing that the accused can vigorously defend themselves.

Thomas Steinbeck

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

Ron Gardenhire

We know how much this means to the White Sox and what kind of race they're in. So we just want to compete as hard as we can and make sure we don't get accused by anybody of laying down.

Emma Lazarus

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Lorrie Moore

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Lynda Resnick

The voice I've chosen to turn to is that of NPR. With a reputation for some of the finest journalism in the country, the nonprofit organization is renowned for its unbiased stance - to the point that it's been accused of being both conservative and liberal.

Kofi Annan

I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

Saddam Hussein

Where is the crime? Where is the crime? If trying a suspect accused of shooting at a head of state -- no matter what his name is -- is considered a crime, then you have the head of state in your hands. Try him.

Jane Goodall

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.

Bill Stewart

We have scheduled a mediation session with the firefighter union and its representative for Friday, March 3. It is in the interest of the city and the union to settle the contract to avoid the time and cost of Act 312 Arbitration.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Stuart Rothenberg

The problem with the big issues, Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, fundamental tax reform, is that they are so politically dangerous that I think both sides want to avoid them.

Therese Fowler

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

A. S. Byatt

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Thomas Pogge

Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.

Tim Bray

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

Tim Russert

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

Pierre Berbizier

We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.

David Murangari

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Joe Nickel

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

Danial Shapiro

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

Tom Segev

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

James Morris

We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.

Atal Vajpayee

We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT,

Brigham Young

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

Fred Mumford

We have a zero-tolerance policy for any facility that fails to conduct the sampling.

Ellen Smith

The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation.

Paul Jensen

unprofessional conduct not related to the quality of patient care.

Leon Cubillas

We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.

Doug Mosier

We're making criminal enterprises look to different means to conduct their business. We see it as a desperation move.

B. F. Skinner

We respect the prerogative of debate organizers to conduct the debate sponsors as they see fit. We would welcome Russ Potts if the organizers wanted to invite him.

Sheriff Norman

We're so fortunate that we can now conduct an investigation into how this thing got going rather than have to explain to the victims' family members why something like this could have happened. I don't know what we would have done if something like this had really happened.

Howard Friedman

Short-term suspensions for egregious conduct create a serious problem. It sends the wrong message to officers.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

David McGrew

We have no option but to win. The consequences of losing are catastrophic.

Federico Opinion

We have no law on hacking. We are consulting some technical experts to see how it would fit into wire-tapping laws.

Gene Grabowski

What these lists demonstrate is that we have been safely consuming foods containing biotech ingredients for nearly a decade now. This is what the food industry has been saying all along, that biotech ingredients are in more and more foods every day and that they are as safe and nutritious as non-biotech foods.

Hubert Williams

Whenever you have a situation like this going on, management has to rise to the occasion. You have to have some consequences for this kind of behavior.

Damon Lindelof

Whenever we do a story or we show the monster or we find the hatch, that all has to be consistent with what we know the ending to be. We have a goal that we are working towards.

Rob Enderle

Whenever the largest online retailer makes a decision, it's going to be a big deal. They're the bellwether for their segment. What they do, others will likely do or consider doing.

Scott Boras

When he got Boston's first offer, he realized that he thought of himself differently than the Red Sox did. He knew then that there was a possibility he may leave, and I don't think that he ever considered leaving prior to that.

Kypros Chrysostomides

We want improvements in the text. The intervention of France introduced some new important elements, but the general framework of the counter-declaration is not considered entirely satisfactory to our side.

Doug Barry

We want people to see us as part of the cultural vitality of the greater Hilton Head area.

Jerry Jaeger

We use the latest in natural cultural practices. Kevin Hicks (course superintendent) has done an excellent job.

Tom Bissell

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

Eric Schlosser

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

Kevin Barry

We want to take education and make it a cultural experience.

Jeb Bush

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Red Hawk

We have a rich tradition here in the Coshocton area, ... When we were pushed out of the east, this was one of the spots we stopped for a while before they pushed us further west. There is a lot of cultural history here. It's like we're back home again.

Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Gurinder Chadha

We were delighted to find out that here was someone in the US who was exploring the same themes as us, in terms of diaspora, culture, cultural negotiations and identity.

Randy Daniels

We're not going to spend the next ten years debating what should happen here.

Justin Gatlin

Most people would be debating in their heads what to do in a year like this. It is all about preparation and I am just looking at putting out superb times. All I have to do this year is focus on my race.

Jen Bluestein

Freddy is going to speak from the heart to all New Yorkers, and he is especially looking forward to debating Mike Bloomberg himself instead of Bloomberg's $50 million smear machine,

Jeff Wagner

I don't have any negative opinions about him. I think he's a gentleman, and I look forward to debating the issues with him.

marie herman

My friends and I are debating about optimism, whether the glass is half empty or half full.....Well it really doesnt make a difference to me since all my glasses are paper cups.

Don Evans

The governor has not been debating all his life, that's for sure,

Tim Eyman

The only thing we're debating is whether 900 is unnecessary or makes the Legislature's version better.

Joe Negron

This year we're debating about what taxes we're going to cut, not whether we're going to have any tax cuts.

Gro H. Brundtland

To those young and not so young who might be debating whether or not to start smoking,

Alan Keyes

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

Alan Keyes

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

Charlie Crist

I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.

Charles Stross

Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers can carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

Brady Corbet

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

Dianne Feinstein

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.

Dianne Feinstein

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

Dianne Feinstein

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Dianne Feinstein

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's important to think of the setting six months ago, ... Six months ago, the Iraqis refused to have inspectors in their country. They were ignoring 16 resolutions of the United Nations.

Marco Rubio

Our leaders have to stop ignoring the impact that culture is having on our nation.

Travis Bradberry

Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs; they leave managers.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Michael Buckley

We're scheduled to go (today); no problems with the spacecraft. We'll see how the weather goes.

Manju Warrier

Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.

Simon Crisford

She had a lot of little problems in the winter and then more in the spring,

Aguri Suzuki

Since we launched the team in a short period, assorted problems are rising and there are many things that should be solved.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

Alyce Wiedner

We've never had an argument. We've never had any problems.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Aristotle

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Brendon Burchard

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

Carlos Mesa

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

Carlos Gonzalez

I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.

Jaswant Singh

We have never said we are absolved of our responsibility,

Agnes Repplier

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

Aaron Sorkin

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Alan Trammell

We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.

Charles W. Pickering

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Charles Dudley Warner

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

Carol Moseley Braun

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

Carlos Castaneda

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's teachings are not spiritual. I repeat this because the question has come to the surface over and over. The idea of spirituality doesn't fit with the iron discipline of a warrior. The most important thing for a shaman like don Juan is the idea of pragmatism.

Carlos Castaneda

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

Carlos Castaneda

The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.

Carlos Castaneda

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

Carlos Castaneda

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Chelsea Cain

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Diane Polan

This is not a violent offense. It was a consensual relationship.

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.