Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Watson

The other respondents involved in this case settled with us and admitted wrongdoing,

Tom Fitton

The point is we need to get all of the facts on the table about this admitted felon's contacts with White House officials.

Mark Ogden

We've also seen cases involving rapidly deteriorating performance and the employees later admitted that they had gone several days without sleep, because they were using the drug.

David Garrity

There are cases where the execution could be admittedly flawed. But, for a company as large as Ford, this is not to say that they won't eventually succeed.

Jeff Justice

We're in a position where one of these two statements is a lie. He's admitted he's lied about the most important part of his testimony so how can the judge allow this person to testify? But that's what judges do, they make decisions.

Martin Jacques

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states.

M.I.A.

Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.

Leonie Brinkema

Unless the United States demonstrates a legitimate reason why these recordings are essential to an issue in dispute either in the guilt or penalty phase of this case, these tape recordings should not be admitted at trial,

Leonard Boswell

Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Nicolas Maduro

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Gunter Grass

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Bernard Williams

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Kevin McCloud

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Robert Reich

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.

Elliott Abrams

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

Lee Miringoff

She remains a controversial figure when she moves out from the Democratic primary sweepstakes.

Lynn Swann

Minorities give their vote to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party has given them lip service in terms of being involved in the party and in being major players.

Campbell Scott

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

Ted Cruz

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

Earl Wilson

Somebody figured it out / we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Earl Wilson

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Janet Reno

We are going to try to enforce it in a way that is fair, firm and prompt.

Dax Shepard

You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.

Mitch Kapor

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

Bobby Bowden

Yeah. I could hardly lose in that situation because Joe is showing the world it can be done. When everybody had given up on Joe, Joe showed it could be done. One play and he doesn't lose a game. I want to do the same thing. He enforced my thinking we can do it.

Kevin James

We spoke with him and none of us thought those were his ideas of Sept. 11, ... He is entitled to his views, but it would not be appropriate for him to be a chaplain for the FDNY.

Mark Everson

We want people to get the refunds they're entitled to. Taxpayers can't get a refund if they don't file a return.

Ariel Sharon

We respect them (the Palestinians) and have no aspirations to rule over them. They are also entitled to freedom and to a national sovereign existence in a state of their own,

Jacques Chirac

unjust for those who are not entitled to them.

James Hurst

The reality is, this judge has signaled his feelings already and NTP won a jury trial already. Under the normal operation of patent cases, they are entitled to an injunction unless there are extraordinary circumstances.

Gerry Adams

The people are entitled to know what has been negotiated,

Alex Gibney

People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

Alex Gibney

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

Chuck Feeney

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Stephan Sirard

There are questions morally and ethically, but legally, they can't stop us.

William Bennett

an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.

John LaChance

He thought what he was doing was morally right?

Viktor Yushchenko

There won't even be talk of reconsidering the decision, ... first of all, morally and politically.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Erica Mann Jong

Nothing said or done there should morally count. Everyone is exhausted.

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.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Judith Miller

voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

David Davies

Personally I'm gutted for Grant. We get on well and it will be a real shame that he won't be there.

Sarah Richart

One thing I won't personally do is wedding invitations.

Linda McCarthy

I did not know Mick personally but he was part of the town.

Nick Cave

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.

Dale Romans

I wouldn't have taken it personally even if he was. I've got more important things to worry about than what he does with his horse.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Ed Koch

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

J. B. Priestley

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Boman Irani

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.