Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Bonnefous

Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.

Mark Allison

Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their peaceful activities without fear of arbitrary detention, harassment or other human rights violations.

Kurt Eichenwald

If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.

John Carlisle

If Bank of America and other companies think they are buying peace from reparations activists with these million-dollar contributions, they are in for a rude surprise.

Rebecca MacKinnon

On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities.

Jim Dyke

Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.

Cathleen Schine

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Krishna Sitaula

The policemen followed them in a white van and one of them fired at the activists from close distance, but they managed to escape unhurt.

Nina Easton

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

Bill Col

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

Rick Greenspan

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

Peter Swire

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

Paul Richard

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

Larry Price

Great teachers like those we honor this evening got us here, and they will continue to lead the way, ... That only one can be chosen Teacher of the Year is a classic example of overcrowding. We have so many worthy candidates and only one spot to fill.

Charles Schumer

New York has been the springboard from which the last two successful Democratic candidates for president won the White House, ... There is no doubt in my mind that New York's good fortune can launch a Democrat into the White House for the third time in 30 years.

Rick Perlstein

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

Gina Bellman

My average day on 'Leverage' starts at 5 A. M. and ends 12 to 14 hours later. An hour drive to the set and back sometimes makes the day unbearably long. You have to grab a few minutes to yourself where you can.

Billie Holiday

Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it's gone and the spending ends They don't come no more.

Ken Holland

My hope is that he ends up in a Red Wings uniform - however long it takes,

English Proverb

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb

English Proverbs

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.

Ron Wilson

Obviously it's great for Cheech, but the key is to win the game and he ends up with another game-winner.

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Eleanor Porter

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Vicky Groat

We had a very intense match on Monday (in the Hanover-Horton Invitational) so it was kind of nice not to have that tonight.

Renee Miller

(Future Cities) is a very intense project. It involves teachers, parents and the community.

John McDonald

one of the most intense individuals I've ever met in my life.

Elyse Stoller

She's really intense, but she pushes us to do our best. Our practices are really intense but fun.

Wendy Ward

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to play the way she's playing right now, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Edward Kennedy

The only surprise is that the administration is surprised by the intense reaction of the American people.

Leo Buscaglia

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Ezra Miller

When I found film, it was like, 'Of course!' It was this very intense realization that this is perhaps the most powerful, honed context that I've found.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

David Dismukes

may end up importing labor from other producing regions.

Ted Ludwig

Maybe it's just symbolic, but to me this is the day for labor and this is the day I'm proud to be a striking member.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Joseph Hansen

If we do not drastically change, there will be no labor movement in this country,

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

Julie Gerberding

We are planning for a marathon and not a sprint. We will be collaborating with many people...for many months,

Bill Rodgers

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

Don Kardong

You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

Benjamin Levy

I think I'd like to run a marathon someday,

Justin Osmer

We view this as more of a marathon than a sprint.

Roxane Gay

After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.

Terry Semel

This is a marathon run, not a sprint.

John Conley

This has been a planned separation. We weren't surprised. We didn't have the rug pulled out from under us. There's been a six-year trend to have the marathon stand on its own two feet.

Eric Epstein

This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon for reform and a lot of work still needs to be done.

Paul Moroney

The firmer the track the better for I don't want his sprint nullified,