Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Terry Abbott

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Richard P. Feynman

We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Ken McEldowney

Lenders are increasingly using risk-based pricing to make loans. If you don't find out your credit score, check your credit report and correct mistakes, you're going to be totally in the dark, and run the risk of paying far higher interest rates on loans.

O. J. Simpson

License holders should always check their tags immediately upon receipt and then place them in a safe and secure location.

Roger Bailey

Last year's Freedom 100 epitomized the racing of the Indy Pro Series. We saw numerous lead changes, side-by-side racing and a late shootout for the checkered flag. To be able to showcase that type of racing at a venue like Indianapolis is extraordinary.

Roger Stone

Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush.

Stanley Clarke

Maya Angelou is a very prolific writer. You can read her stuff down once and sort of walk away, but if you really want to get the richness of what she is saying you have to check it out a couple of times.

O. Winston

My knee checked out medically. There's nothing else I can do.

T. D. Jakes

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

Martin Eggleston

Mr. Walker sent his resume unsolicited to every council member.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Maybe we're better off with him sitting in New York at the U.N. than with him having an important post either in the State Department or in the National Security Council in the White House, actually shaping American policy.

Bill Cole

One of the things the council would not like to do is increase taxes. In fact, if there's any possible way, they'd like to see a decrease.

Richard Butler

My duty is to report what has happened to the Security Council and the United Nations. I'm going to New York to do that.

Paul Volcker

must be broadly shared, starting, we believe, with member states and the Security Council itself.

Bob Blayney

More often than not, the council members would be at odds with things the mayor was pushing.

William Walsh

Now that I'm here, I'm looking forward to working with the tribe. This council is progressive and are future-oriented. They are looking at goals which offer more employment and enjoyment to customers.

Joseph Wu

If all non-legalized organizations are to be abolished, that should imply that the National Unification Council should be abolished too.

Laura Miller

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

Mike Easley

Let me be clear: Ophelia is a dangerous storm,

John Varley

Leadership that's reliant on mergers and acquisitions is dangerous leadership.

Jeff Lacy

Scott is a dangerous fighter, ... Everyone has been ducking him.

Bruce Schneier

Setting the default to dangerous doesn't work in any other industry.

John Cohen

Sean's a very dangerous guy in our league. He's got a great combination of contact-oriented two-strike approach. And he's also got real power at the same time.

David Carr

Selling off America's natural heritage is not the way to fund government services. This move would set a dangerous precedent for years to come.

Derek Roy

Maxim is such a dangerous player with the puck, he draws players to him, especially after scoring a goal like that. I look for that, you seem to get a little more space when Maxim has the puck, so it's my job to get to an open spot, because he usually finds a way to get the puck to you. He made a great pass and all I had to do was hit the net.

Scottie Upshall

Me and Nichol will have to keep up with Walks because he's flying ? you can tell he's excited to be back. I think we've got lots of speed and grit. It's an energy line that that can be dangerous if we start to get it going.

Richard Greenberg

My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing.

Cy Thannikary

Legislators failed. We decided to take the process out of Trenton. If we leave it to legislators, it will never happen.

Lee Miller

Last year was the first year we did this. We started talking about it four years ago, ... Last year, we decided to head it up and make it a project.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Brad Soderberg

Last year, we played 12 games that were decided in the last 90 seconds, and we lost 11 of 12. If we win a game when we're not playing well, it's a step in the right direction.

Frank Guzzetta

Many of our guests have expressed a need for more time to decided if their purchases are right for themselves or their gift recipients.

Raekwon

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Tina Shipp

So many left when Dennis came, and then not much happened, so a lot of people decided to stay this time.

Jim Haslett

My kids enrolled here, but we've decided they're going to go back with my wife. They're going to go back around the first of October, when school starts.

Edwina Ashe

My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't play basketball.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Bruce Hyde

We need to make it a more functional area.

Tom Davies

If these functions are transferred to another agency...are we saving money or just transferring costs?

Gary Weiss

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

Stephen Fleming

I don't function 100% because i sleep too much

Stephen King

I can function and I couldn't have ever done that before this treatment,

Kevin Landis

We play the Internet through Internet infrastructure companies. Their function is moving data.

Nicola Monaghan

It has taken me a long time to work out the function of ex-boyfriends, at least for me: how they can help you work out what you want from life and from a partner by showing you what you don't. If a man is your ex, it's better all round if he was not Mr. Right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Tom Arlis

(Mahan) has really stepped up and become a real leader on the team out there.

Mark Fischer

Let's plan for it. Don't wait. We have to step up as leaders.

Bill Cunningham

leaders in other boroughs did. State party leaders did.

Justin Gray

Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere.

John Maxwell

Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning first, before we talk about anything else, ... We need to win some games. That's what I talk about. ... We need to openly talk about winning before we talk about anything else.

Angela Knight

This reflects openly what has been talked about quietly for some time.

Seanan McGuire

When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn't until after it was sold that I said 'Mira Grant' wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based.

Matt Clement

I don't think we're worried about who's the underdog or the favorite, we just get to the postseason and now you have the opportunity, ... Hopefully, we can seize it.

Bill Watterson

Tomorrow we'll not only seize the day, we'll throttle it.

Shane Meyer

They just seized it and took control. Then we were just flat.

Joely Richardson

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

Horace

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

Lloyd Alexander

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Mike Brey

Let's see if we can put two together. That's the only step we can think about taking right now.

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

John Roe

Getting united as a team was step one. We know we have to keep working on the skill.

Trey Johnson

Getting 'discovered' is something that made us step up our game.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Annette Lu

Taiwan is democratic.

Eddie Huang

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

Jason Wu

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Steve Johnson

Democratic, market-oriented Taiwan is a thorn in its side.

George W. Bush

I simply said that I would do everything to help Taiwan to defend itself.

Hu Jintao

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

Jeremy Lin

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.