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.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Daniel Goure

I am enormously skeptical that the Serbs are ready to negotiate, or more importantly, the Serbs that we are talking about here are the Serbs of Belgrade. (Bosnian Serb leader Slobodan) Milosevic, we have not heard from because the administration refused to directly negotiate with the Bosnian Serbs.

Michael Ignatieff

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Slobodan Milosevic

I was happy to shoot Muslims (in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo),

John Pomfret

For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

Nicholas Burns

We're calling for their immediate release. We are making this known privately to the Bosnian Serb military commanders, and we're now making it known privately just in the next couple of hours to President Milosevic in Belgrade, and we very much expect that this call for the immediate release of these people will be met.

John Pomfret

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

Mark Burnett

That person did have previous psychological problems. He had broken up with his wife, was a Bosnian refugee and, unfortunately, took his life well before the show ever aired.

Danis Tanovic

I call it Bosnian minimalism. I was somehow thinking of the Roman comedies where it all happens in the square.

Richard Holbrooke

The main reason for this is that the Bosnian Serbs still have not given up their core dream of creating a separate state, and that is unacceptable.