Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizardo Sanchez

We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

Jim Gibbons

Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend,"" but in this case a country.

K. A. Applegate

We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

Eula Biss

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.

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.

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.

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.

Saxby Chambliss

We started this for the right reasons, ... We're on the right track. It is a very, very difficult and complex track. But in order to get there, it is going to require the presence of Americans for probably a long time to come. You'll see us downsize, I hope, immediately. But it is still going require us to be there for a while to come.

Niki Tsongas

Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats.

Bob Lambert

When you take those three complexes alone, you're talking about hundreds of units.

Guy Gavriel Kay

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.

Amado Guevara

Whether they had the new players or not, they're still a team we're not familiar with. They're a complex team and even though they haven't won many games this year they still have some good qualities, especially with the new players they've added.

Richard Kramer

What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision-making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands.

Mark Luscombe

What's really complex about it is you're going to have to do allocations you've never had to do before.

Darren Irby

Working with celebrities has become, over the last decade, a lot more complex with so many more nonprofits engaging with celebrities.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Federico Opinion

We have no law on hacking. We are consulting some technical experts to see how it would fit into wire-tapping laws.

Marty Heires

When we were alerted of the two undocumented workers - and after consulting with authorities - we shut down the site,

Erik Frieberg

We're consulting on how you become better at your software development processes.

Joanne Lewis

There is a stigma in consulting Mental Health, ... Students don't like it.

Edward Weston

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Harry Reid

You don't need a lot of consultation if the person you're consulting with listens to you. So we'll see.

Katie Hafner

The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information.

Hansjorg Wyss

Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.

Clive Thompson

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.

Chris Cleave

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

David Mixner

For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

Dave Barry

Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.

Dave Barry

It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

David Tennant

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

Catherine Deneuve

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

JoAnn Manson

The perception that these hormones protect the heart was so strong that many doctors were prescribing it to prevent heart disease.

Amy Johnson

The point is to be OK with your stuttering - and meet adults who stutter who are doctors and lawyers and engineers.

Douglas Hofstadter

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Jessica Hahn

I'd definitely pose nude again. No qualms. I actually had my breasts done again. Just updated, like new tires.

Jeaniene Frost

Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by his other arm and began thumping him over the head with the loose limb. I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

Jeaniene Frost

I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

John Bonham

I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

Mack Brown

We didn't want to be stubborn, ... We rushed for 145. We'll take that.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

James Smith

That's where I don't go, ... That's not a scientific question.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Chet Williamson

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Charles Rangel

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Tom Peters

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Adam Jones

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

Van Chancellor

She has a stomach virus and is dehydrated,

Dan Fogelberg

I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.

David Gest

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

Shawn Almond

I think it's some kind of stomach bug.

Christian Louboutin

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

Aksel Svindal

It was tough to wait and watch. My stomach was going around and around. But it was worth the wait.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

Aaron Lazar

I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.

David Attenborough

I haven't-touch wood-had a stomach upset for 15 or 20 years.

Kailash Kher

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.