Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Mejia

We are advocating that they do stay in school and that their parents come to the march. Those are the future leaders. They need to be educated.

Peter Velappan

We are advocating fair play at the Asian Cup. Every team has the right to compete on common ground so let's finish the tournament on a real high.

Benjamin F. Wade

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

Arthur Erickson

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Harold Jones

We're not advocating speed bumps. The Ranchos is a shortcut and a speedway. Somebody is going to get killed, hurt or wrecked. The so-called squeaky wheel is what we are. I'm saying we need something.

Josh Donlan

We're not advocating backing up a van of cheetahs and letting them go near Tucson.

Patricia Wright

There are very few people advocating for the poor in this state or in the country. Poor people have no voice.

Richard Johnston

The only people advocating the Type IV change, that's the type of construction material, in that legislation were the three of us, that I'm aware of. At the time, Pruitt, he had the committee; he had the bill that was going to be settled in (a joint House-Senate) conference. So when that language was inserted it was a conference item and it stayed in the bill at his doing.

Dan Mclaughlin

Sen. Nelson has been strongly advocating the replacement vehicle be assembled at the Cape because from his view it is the right way to do it.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Baruch Spinoza

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

Dennis McBride

The time for talking is over; it?s time to remedy the situation,

Hippocrates

Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.

George Diller

It will take some time really to understand what to do to remedy the situation.

Tim McCarver

They have yet to come up with a remedy for that.

Publilius Syrus

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Gary Hoffman

We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.