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.

John Devenanzio

Senior year was the best year of my life. I didn't take the serious route; however, of applying for jobs, and I thought applying for the show would be an awesome thing to do.

Deborah Moggach

I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.

Neal Katyal

The 'plain' language of the enacted law is most fairly read as not applying to this case, or at the very least is ambiguous.

Mary Lambert

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love,' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

Douglas Alexander

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

Kazuhiro Takahashi

The question is whether other emerging Internet-related companies have done something illegal when applying the (same) scheme.

Gracie Gold

A lip brush is really helpful when applying a red lip because it makes the lines smoother. You can see a bumpy line from really far away.

John Skipper

We plan to build the Full Circle concept by applying similar blanket coverage to future events.

David Hanson

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.

Robert Lloyd

Librarians, counselors, teachers, training, students, support, systems all those are excluded from the classroom expenses.

Greg Hamilton

Many new teachers haven't worked with kids before. When they hit the classroom all on their own, they feel very alone.

Brett Nelson

So far the community response has been great. We just got a large donation from the Audubon Society and we have donation jars in all the classrooms and around the community.

Beth Wood

Monies raised from the cruises will go to support the non-profit organization's efforts for traveling the country to provide floating classrooms to students,

O. J. Simpson

Now that I've come to UC, I realize how supportive this university is of the military, ... ROTC classrooms are new and the programs are well funded. People really seem to care.

Peter Hoffman

Now our students can get their classroom experience with us, and then do work at Hopkins. They can spend time in one of the richest research environments in the world, but still have that very small class size here.

Mark Bollinger

When they walk into a college classroom there's no shock. They are prepared and feel confident.

Don Arnold

On the first floor, there were more classrooms and it sustained heavy water damage. There was about a foot of water that was on that floor. We pumped 85,000 gallons of water.

Wendy Kopp

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

Boris Yeltsin

Many provisions of the law infringe on constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens, establish inequality between different confessions and violate Russia's international obligations.

Tommy Lewis

One of the things we wanted to do tonight if we could was to establish some other offensive threats.

Frank Solich

One thing that we couldn't do was let them establish a ground game, and they did that. Once they did that, they had a lot of things going for them.

Newt Gingrich

My goal was to establish a Republican majority for a long time, not just to win three elections,

Phyllis Zilm

We had a week's worth of practices two weeks ago, and it was just enough to get the ladder set and establish the varsity team, and that's about it. We've been playing some lobby tennis inside the high school and running in the gym.

Kenji Johjima

I can't imagine starting on opening day. My first job is to be a part of the team. To do that, I have to learn to communicate with the pitchers. I have to establish myself. I have to prove myself.

Mike Daniels

I found a landlord who would work with me to establish my business.

David Keene

Fusion is all about integrating SOA technologies together. We want to establish Fusion Middleware as the SOA standard for BAM implementations.

Rhett Bomar

I have a great opportunity to go out there and do some things to establish myself. I'm really excited. This is what I've been working for. It's what I've been trying to do all my life and now it's here.

Byron Dorgan

No one is taking about imposing new taxes on anyone,

Douglas Kmiec

So judges are responsible for abiding by the morality in their own lives, but they are not responsible for imposing that morality in judicial decision-making.

David Rabe

Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.

Tracy Kidder

Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.

E. P. Thompson

There's nothing a professor likes better than imposing his opinion on as large a number of people as possible.

Josh Keaton

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.

Randall Howard

There's been a credibility problem with management. They've conducted themselves in an arrogant, imposing and unilateral manner.

Charleen Scott

Leave me out of your tricks today. I've never been to jail, and I intent to keep it that way.

Tony Domenech

My intent is going to be to rescue those neighborhoods.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

Andre Agassi

My intention is to keep working and keep doing what I am doing, ... The only thing better than the last 20 years (at the U.S. Open) will be 21.

Mahmoud Zahar

Negotiations is not our intention, negotiation is a method,

Mahmud Zahar

Negotiations are not our intention, negotiation is a method.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

Deepak Chopra

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Geno Auriemma

She wasn't that thrilled to play. When I took her out, I had no intention of putting her back in. But all that went out the window in the second half.

Charles Grassley

only want judges who will do their political bidding on the bench, regardless of what is required by the law and the Constitution.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge.

Warren E. Burger

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Don Samuel

Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

Doug Anderson

That could reduce the population by 200 inmates, ... The judges are supposed to come in soon.

Lord Hailsham

Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.

John Thomas

We think it tastes good, but we don't know what the judges are going to say.

Kate Reed

I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

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.

Diane Swonk

If they move between meetings it's usually a move to shore up confidence.

Roy Wilson

If this continues, we set up meetings and they don't show, it is going to take a long, long time.

Buck Showalter

You know how there's talk every year about the winter meetings and then people come away disappointed because not much happened? I think this is going to be the year to make all of those people happy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Jim Daley

He will miss no meetings here. As I told him Day 1: if I have a problem, it'll be a short-lived experiment.

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Ken Hitchcock

There are times during the season when you have to review. It was very, very productive. We don't have those type of meetings very often, but when we feel like our team isn't playing well, we do.

Ted Arrington

It puts them in a very precarious position. They know when they take the pledge that it's not in the public's interest.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Wolfgang Schauble

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

George Galloway

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Justin Kirk

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Eric Blake

We're not ruling out anything at this point. It's just something to watch.

Zingisa Mkabile

He is an embarrassment to the ruling party.

Ari Fleischer

Obviously, he's not ruling it out... he's saying whatever it took.

Ralph Miller

At this point, we're not ruling anything out,

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Milwaukee Brewers

He never got settled in. He couldn't find a groove. He never got going,

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

Doug Harvey

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

Charles Olson

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

Dizzy Dean

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Al Barlick

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Al Barlick

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Calamity Jane

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Bill Janklow

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Edwin Louis Cole

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.