Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorraine Toussaint

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

Natasha Trethewey

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Alonzo Church

Veblen was a great advocate of getting together informally. His teas were in the same spirit. He believed in taking long walks through the woods to discuss mathematical research.

Omar Bongo

Let's be clear: I do not advocate the virtues of a new African diplomatic model and do not pretend to be its theoretician.

Kathryn Lasky

My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

Leonard Leo

She has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career.

Rudi Giuliani

Since they are advocating for a problem, if there are things that would make the problem disappear, sometimes unknowingly they continue to advocate and they don't embrace the things that would actually solve the problem,

Joe Mansueto

Since Morningstar was founded in 1984, our mission has been to serve as an advocate for the individual investor. We have been successful in executing our strategy, but we must refocus our efforts to capitalize on the opportunities in the marketplace.

John Deane

We have have been an advocate of world languages for a long time. And we've got to keep the place clean.

Tamara Feldman

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

Barbara Sher

Time is clay; make something.

Adam Clarke

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

Dan TerAvest

Right now it's very clay-like soil that holds a lot of water and gets real spongy. The clay soil holds the water so the fields stay wet. We can't mow it and then it's unsafe to play on. It's a vicious cycle.

Gaston Gaudio

I am satisfied, I felt very well in spite of not having played on clay for a long time.

Ron Walker

I anticipated we'd have had it done in November. But it will be fairly soon. Our goal is to have full water service, with Clay County Regional Water by the summer months.

Andy Roddick

I felt pretty good coming off of last weekend. The transition coming off grass last week to clay was pretty evident in this match but I thought if I could get through this one I'd be all right.

Bruce Lee

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Anne Bronte

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Jamie Sandison

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Laurent Brancowitz

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.

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.

Brian Cashman

We've always considered Roger a Yankee. If he decides to play, he'll give us the courtesy of an audience. We'll have to take a look at it when the time comes.

Beatrice Mongo

We found that one firefighter was considered inactive because he doesn't come to all the meetings, but he still fights fires. He would still be eligible to vote. To my mind, if you're risking your life to fight our fires, you should get to vote.

Majora Carter

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

Marc Crawford

There are only 30 jobs in the league. It will be a privilege to be considered for any of the jobs. I'm interested in them all.

LaMont Jordan

We're considered a high-powered offense. Last time I checked, high-powered offenses don't get held to (20) points.

Salmon P. Chase

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

Trent Duffy

We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work.

Rick Perry

We're going to pull together so that these families can find as much normalcy as we can. We're going to get through this together as one American family.

Bob Boone

When we deploy soldiers, we deploy the family. And we need to partner with all these groups to give these families what they need.

Shawn Johnson

What about the residential areas? What about my home? What about other families who houses that are still underwater? What are you doing to meet immediately meet our needs,

Mitchell Hurwitz

What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.

Leonard Boswell

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

David Crosby

We know we're grown-up guys, and we have families and stuff, but we've taken that as a positive source of art, rather than as a detriment. You know, how we feel about the stuff that we've learned over the lives that we've had, and how we feel about our families. That's where we're writing from, and it's a good thing.

Toby Hall

The place gets families from all around down.

Cervantes Saavedra

There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Alan Colmes

People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Brendan Behan

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.