Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Tom DeLay

Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented.

Vanessa Redgrave

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Laura Fisher

So far, the law is working as intended.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Lisa Gross

One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.

William Blake

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Charles Potter

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

Karen Hughes

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Denis Hayes

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Dean Koontz

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Jason Smith

Let's go help these people. We're not doing forced evacuations. We're helping those who want help.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable

Richard Armitage

looks to me like somehow the multinational force didn't stay on top of this.

Joerg Kraemer

Many market participants are hoping for the FDP to take on the role of a pacemaker, a force that pushes for reforms, Merkel wouldn't be able to push through her reform program.

George Lucas

Man your ships and may the force be with you.

John Monroe

Seagate is the most formidable force in the hard-disk-drive industry. This just makes them a more formidable force.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Denis Diderot

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.