Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lind

The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.

Peter Beattie

We appointed Tony Morris to start and finish a job and that's what I would prefer,

Bruce Fein

There is no pattern of demonstration that justices appointed by the president then try to defend the president's constitutional prerogatives.

Zhang Mao

We've appointed ombudsmen to check implementation of these measures in various hospitals.

Ron Brown

We've appointed a committee to look at our needs. We post the meetings and the public is welcome to come and voice their opinion. The public is always welcome. We need to find enough property where we can build as we need. We'll get it done.

Leonie Brinkema

Unfortunately, it is now obvious that no attorney appointed by the court will satisfy the defendant,

Terry Teachout

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Bob Murray

We have appointed Kevin Ball caretaker manager until the end of the season and hope that supporters will give him their full backing. Sunderland supporters have been incredibly tolerant and supportive in the last few months, which have been very difficult. I would also like to thank them for that.

Phiroz Vandrevala

We have appointed a global company to work out the branding and positioning strategy for TCS in the global market. Their report is expected in a matter of weeks and the roll out of the strategy would begin next fiscal.

Vladimir Putin

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

Khalil Gibran

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Alan Siegel

Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result.

John Bartlett

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own

Jonathan Haidt

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Celia Imrie

The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.

Michael Sheen

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

Barney Frank

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Charlie Johnson

When the DNA portion of the nanosensor binds to a target molecule, there will be a slight change in the electric charge near the nanotube, ... The nanotube will then pick up on that change, turning it into an electric signal that can then be reported.

Jay Staggs

We lacked heart, effort and passion, which really concerns me considering this was a huge league game for us and we did not show up wanting to win.

Bubba Franks

We know we're not that far out of it, but all we're concerned with is winning games. And that's going to happen one game at a time,

Rick Carlisle

We know he's going to play because he plays, but we're concerned about it because it is his shooting hand.

John Street

very concerned that all of his years of public service are going to be compromised by the current situation.

Jack Straw

very concerned indeed about the human rights situation.

Steny Hoyer

very concerned by OPM's announcement tonight of a significant increase in health insurance premium costs.

Kofi Annan

very concerned about the military build-up and expressed his readiness for dialogue.

Carlton Dotson

very concerned about his well-being at this time.

Kyle Wilson

Uh, no. I don't have any concerns as far as that goes. I don't really want to talk about it. But I'm not concerned.

Jack Straw

very distinguished and experienced internationally. If his appointment is confirmed we look forward to working with him.

Tom Coburn

We want judges who are well qualified. Ginsburg was confirmed with 96 votes. . . . I would hate to see a double standard,

Gregory Coupet

There is no need to start panicking. Our recent results have only confirmed that we are merely human beings.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately, it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Doug Macdonald

Legislators and voters confirmed that they are willing to invest in highway improvements to help alleviate traffic bottlenecks and enhance safety.

Kofi Annan

Libya has confirmed its seriousness and readiness to find a solution to the Lockerbie problem,

Norm Coleman

senior Iraqi officials have confirmed that you, in fact, received oil allocations and that the documents that identify you as an allocation recipient are valid.

Ozren Muller

She did not train today because she is not feeling well. The doctor has confirmed that she does not have the flu or a temperature. She is resting.

Fran Quigley

We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education.

Louie Gohmert

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Barbara Boxer

Let me be very clear: I will never be a rubber-stamp for any President. That would be contrary to the Constitution of the United States.

Cathi Herrod

Let the people decide, not the courts. The definition of marriage needs to rise to the level of the constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Bruno Jeanbart

Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.

Michael Ruppert

Since September 11th we have seen the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th amendments to the Constitution abrogated either in whole or in part. What has been done about it?

Kermit Hall

She is pressing for a view of the Constitution that is quite cosmopolitan, and she is using an out-of-country venue to make her point.

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Amber Magner

We lack experience. We don't have the leadership to make the right decisions at the right times.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

Allan Cunningham

Wha the deil hae we got for a king, / But a wee, wee German lairdie!

David Whyte

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

Douglas Sirk

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Klaus Fuchs

I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.

Klaus Fuchs

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Ayn Rand

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

Richard Jefferson

We've spoiled people early. We could win the rest of our games, but we're going to be judged by how we play in the playoffs. This is good. This is great. But we understand that's how we're going to be judged.

Kevin Rahm

I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.

Charles Tupper

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Edward Merriam

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Charles Dickens

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Mark Mooney

(Walker) has just been playing real well. She runs real hard, she is just up and down the court.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

Chris Christie

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

Chris Christie

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

Doug Tygar

We probably don't want to be relying on passwords as we do.

Mary Chapman

They are relying too much on first impressions

Michael Young

I just want to be a little more consistent. I've been relying a lot on instincts.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chris Burke

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Chip Conley

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Ben Roethlisberger

We know we're going to be the underdogs and we probably like that role a little more.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Marco Rubio

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,

Justin Hill

Most of the time, all you are doing is trimming them up and shaping them up.

Maurice Carroll

It's shaping up as a blowout to end all blowouts,

Matt Bryden

It is shaping up to be something more serious.