Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

John Fitzpatrick

From the defense standpoint, I think that's some crucial information that really can be used to bolster their claim that the accuser has a less-than-honorable motive in bringing the charges. As a defense lawyer, that's something I would want to investigate completely to see if she's crying wolf. If she's crying wolf in 1996, then potentially she could be crying wolf in 2006.

Sophocles

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Jeffrey Toobin

One of the toughest issues here is how much you disclose about the character and history of the accuser in the Bryant case. At some level, it's relevant to her credibility, which is an important issue in the case. But there are also boundaries of fairness and good taste that need to be considered.

Khanderao Kand

It's like appointing the accuser as the prosecutor, judge and jury.

Rodney Melville

credibility of the accuser is central to the case.

Bob Ekstrand

The clear gist of what they were looking for was to find out who was at the party and who wasn't. That's really odd, given that the accuser claims to have identified two people. The accuser maybe picked someone out of a photo lineup who wasn't even in this state at the time. ... All they've got is an ID. If this woman fingered someone who was flying over the state of New York when this party was in progress, how embarrassing would that be?

Chuck Sherwood

This has upset a lot of people's lives, and it will continue to do so. This is a bad thing, one way or another, whether the players are telling a lie or the accuser is telling a lie. This has turned everything upside down.

Tony Furtado

When I was a little kid, everything was so new and interesting and so easy to just play the instrument. There were no boundaries because I didn't know any better.

Lisa Cholodenko

Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted.

Lee Brand

There are certain boundaries you do not cross, and I saw her crossing those boundaries.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

Susie Wiles

Where the boundaries aren't clear, we're delineating those. It's a clean-up and a house keeping exercise.

Amy Jo Martin

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.

Eric Gould

We don't have any boundaries for it. If we're feeling it, it's OK.

Brian Boucher

Whether things really change year-to-year in golf, it's sort of a yes and no answer. I mean, there always seems to be something that gets a lot of buzz. But as with the big heads of the last few years, some golfers found that it was more like trying to swing a sledgehammer. They just couldn't get used to the size, so they decided to go a different route. Then again, you still have some companies pushing boundaries when it comes to how big the head can be. It's whatever you feel comfortable with.

Daron Malakian

When we were a club band, we always used to say, 'Man, if we ever see success, we'd like to open doors for other people, to push the boundaries and fully contribute something to art, to music, that is going to help it evolve instead of doing stuff for the sake of money or doing stuff for the sake of being popular.

Tim Davis

Whenever you have Bryant on the mound he is going to give us a chance to win because he is a great competitor. He's had his good stuff the whole year.

Matt Painter

Yes, I would say so. Especially with Bryant Dillon making the shot and putting us up three and in position.

Matt Painter

I would say so, with Bryant Dillon making the shot to put us in position. I thought we made enough plays.

Jason Terry

He reminds me of Kobe Bryant the way he's playing.

Andre Iguodala

He was Kobe Bryant tonight. I was pretty sure he wanted to come back at us because we pretty much hurt him when we played last time.

Mary Burke

Pam gave more back to Bryant than any scholarship could be worth. She inspired us.

Mike Trgovac

Bryant never said two words, but people watched him work, and that's the way he led. The worst thing you can do is make a guy who's not a vocal leader a vocal leader.

Steve Ayers

Bryant is getting very close to 200 percent of its capacity, essentially another elementary school.

W. S. Gilbert

Because so many people have been displaced from the hurricane, I understand there are about 300 people in Benton and 300 in Bryant who are without anything.

Charlie Chaplin

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Charlie Chaplin

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

Charles Sumner

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

Charles de Gaulle

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

Charles de Gaulle

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Charles de Gaulle

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Charles de Lint

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

Charles de Lint

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Charles Dickens

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

Bob Woodward

Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative?

Michael Johnston

Shareholders are pressuring everyone to disclose what they are doing in the environmental arena.

Steven Cron

It is because of this outpouring that she felt an obligation to disclose publicly these intensely private matters.

Bill Cowher

There are no prerequisites in this forum. All the votes are tabulated and shredded, and I disclose the results. This is not a democracy.

Andrew McLaughlin

We intend to disclose to users when information has been removed from our search results in response to local laws and regulations.

Wang Zhaowen

We can't disclose the names of the investors before it is (officially) announced.

Ken Starr

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

Bradley A. Smith

By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Lysander Spooner

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

Aristophanes

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

Rep. Lindsey

I think everyone is interested in tax fairness in this state.

Jack Dunn

For us it's a fairness issue, it's a justice issue, and it's a legal issue.

Eric Smith

I think we should go back. In fairness I don't think they should get two years of free taxes.

Tom Kloza

It is not a name that the public has an association with. In fairness to them, it is Russian-owned but U.S.-managed.

Rick Moore

People want to talk about fairness with this issue. But is it fair for the Kentucky horsemen to have to send their signal to locations where they're going to lose money?

Donald Trump

In fact the Hillary [Clinton] convention which did very well but not nearly as well as mine, in all fairness, would've gotten one-third the ratings they got if I weren't.

Donald Trump

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this for 30 years. And why hasn't she made the [trade] agreements better? The NAFTA agreement is defective.

Amish Tripathi

Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Dennis Schain

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

Fay Guarraci

It wasn't just that they wanted to be around them. It seemed to be particularly relevant to the sexual interaction, the stimulation they would receive.

Howard Deutsch

It's a classic, and it's been relevant to three generations of children.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Wharton

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

David Tudor

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

David Hume

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

David Hume

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Ben Wheatley

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

Denis Leary

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

Benjamin Franklin

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast

Ann Richards

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.

Stacey Koerner

Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 are probably the toughest battlegrounds.

Mike Dunleavy

It's really the toughest part of our schedule.

E. B. White

It was probably the toughest thing I've had to do - ever.

Dusty Baker

That's what you want, to be better than .500 on the road. That's usually the toughest part of the equation, but we didn't play well at home.

Sergei Brylin

This is probably the toughest we (have had it) in a long time.

Matt Gray

This is one of the toughest conferences in the state.

Gordon Brown

This is the toughest and most challenging year for the economy.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.