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.

Richard P. Feynman

Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.

Richard P. Feynman

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Joel Bernstein

Like anything, ... you got to use some common sense.

Scott Pelley

Lt. Col. Ronald Stallings told investigators, quote, 'he had no idea,' end quote, that prisoners were being chained overhead for 24 hours and more. What you seem to be saying is that it was common knowledge.

Guy Burgess

Search for Common Ground has done some very interesting things. They've figured out that costs of mass media productions in third-world countries is miniscule, especially given the new technologies, compared to what you'd expect to spend to make it into the mass TV market in the United States.

Reza Aslan

Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.

Janet Yellen

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

Rick Applegate

much more comes out on how common the practice was.

Jim Sutton

My feeling is that the US domestic support proposal will have a comparable effect to the European Union's 2003 reform of its Common Agricultural Policy,

Duane DeSpain

Last year we had a decent team and won the region. We lost two seniors, but we've replaced them with some good talent. (Evans) has stepped in as our No. 1 singles player, and (Green) has done a good job at the No. 6 spot. We're as good as we were last year, and our record shows that.

Ian Gunner

Sentiment is still dollar negative, and it will take some very decent equity news to turn this around. The market needs something to hang its hat on.

Sinorice Moss

No one respects us right now, ... I know we had a decent season, but that's not expected out of a University of Miami team. People expect better. ... We're the underdogs right now, and we understand that.

Johnny Marr

No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.

Julie Bowen

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK.

Ryan Moore

From what I understand Sir Michael's got him in excellent form and we are expecting nothing but a decent run from him,

Mark Newton

We were decent in the Bay. 5-5 wasn't bad, but it was disappointing.

Paula Creamer

I was so nervous I was shaking watching her, ... She had a decent putt and I knew I had to make mine.

Robert Boswell

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.

Doug Nelson

At this point, we're investigating this as a possible homicide of a 26-year-old Webster woman,

Phil Robinson

It's a miracle we're not trying a homicide case,

Archibald Hill

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

Craig Ray

Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.

Jake Bugg

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

David Givens

I was surprised to win, I thought for sure someone else would have a longer commute.

Michael Vick

I would have been able to come back and play ... With an injury, the longer you sit on the sideline and kind of nurse it a little bit, the stiffer you get. Once I got stiff, there was no need to go back in.

Seth Harp

I have always said when people first marry there is a whole lot of lust and not a whole lot of understanding. The longer you are married the more you understand each other.

Henry Rollins

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Bill Rodgers

So, I would recommend one longer run daily, with your longest run when you can get the time.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.