Famous Quotes & Sayings

M.I.A.

I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

Phil Klay

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Timothy Noah

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Peter T. King

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

Fred Woodworth

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Anja Niedringhaus

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

Dore Gold

We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.

Kirk Hanson

The potential for conflict of interest is greater today than it's ever been.

Sheikh Rashid

We have no desire to become involved in a heated conflict. We will do whatever it takes to defend our country.

Janet Howard

Whether they're able to do under the ethics statute or not, it's a plain conflict of interest.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

Ricardo Sanchez

We're fighting a low-intensity conflict that is multifaceted,

Sergei Kupriyanov

Ukraine refused, which shows that the Ukrainian authorities planned a conflict from the very beginning, i.e. to tap, or rather steal, gas intended for European consumers.

Richard G. Scott

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Jill Soloway

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

Peggy Jones

We're extremely honored to have Sonia Sanchez at this year's festival. For decades now, she has been an original, serious voice who movingly describes the African-American experience.

Robert Reich

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

John Stratton

Major money is going to be in motion in the next decade and yet no one really understands exactly where it will land, or even if it will land, or just disappear altogether.

James Thurber

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

Thomas Sadoski

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

E. P. Thompson

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Keri Hilson

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Robert Williams

We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning.

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

Robert Adams

What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Heather Brooke

You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Kathy Harper

We are seeing anything from soft tissue injuries to major injuries that can involve paralysis from the lap belt, to thoracic injuries from the shoulder belt.

John Chandler

With no rain, it was like playing on concrete. We haven't had any injuries - this was a preventative measure.

Roy McFarland

We're getting injuries left, right and centre. It seems we're struggling to get 11 on the field.

Lee Campbell

We're banged up. We've had injuries in the past, but the kids have been able to suck (it) up, or they haven't been major injuries and the kids have been able to play.

Ken Holland

With the new CBA, injuries are really going to take a toll on teams even more than before.

Chuck Froehlich

Shaler has a nice team. They have the same problems as us with the injuries and such, and they overcame them.

Sarah Cox

Most organized sports-related injuries (about 62 percent) occur during practices rather than games.

Gordon Eakin

We played a lot of players that we usually don't play because of injuries in the second game, but I'm disappointed that we couldn't pull of the second win.

Ron Polk

Maybe with all the injuries we've had on offense, (the pitchers) have been pressing and trying to do more.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

Kendall Carver

We think that what is reported is just the tip of the iceberg.

Julie Thomas

There were more rapes reported this year than last. I know there's some speculation that there's just more reports. Well, I don't know that. I don't know that it's not actually going up. There's so much we don't know.

Zhang Qi

One after the other, they reported everything was safe and sound. I was ecstatic.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Catherine Ashton

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Ai Weiwei

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Bob Menendez

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

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.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Gary Hoffman

We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

John Mehr

We're just steadily working on it. But we have nothing new.

Mike Burke

There are a lot of changes. What we are trying to do is make sure that we are steadily progressing.

Gary Evans

We have steadily grown, as we do it all for the most part.