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.

Eminem

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Rick Perlstein

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.

Richard P. Feynman

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Robert Mankoff

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Kevin Mitnick

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Kurtwood Smith

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Kurt Browning

What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

Malcolm McDowell

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

Marc Faber

This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

Barbara Boxer

Let me be very clear: I will never be a rubber-stamp for any President. That would be contrary to the Constitution of the United States.

Cathi Herrod

Let the people decide, not the courts. The definition of marriage needs to rise to the level of the constitution.

Salih Mutlak

No country in the world can draft their constitution in three months. They themselves took 10 years. Why do they wish to impose a silly constitution on us?

Abdul Sattar

More than 90 percent of Iraq's Shiites support the constitution, but not me.

Charles Bowen

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution,

Steve Scalise

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

Abraham Lincoln

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Bruno Jeanbart

Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.

Robin Cook

make a very serious decision in the next few hours.

Dennis Ross

make the decision on how to resume with the final procedures.

Gary Peters

Making the decision now allows Stuart to go out and try to get a head start.

Philip Crosby

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Jim Davies

made the decision that unity is the key to our success.

Bob Graham

(Maddox has) made the decision that unity is the key to our success,

Brent Guy

Leon made some nice plays. He knew when to run and get the yardage. ... He is making better decisions.

Pete Townshend

left entirely to me the decision as to whether or not to go on with the tour.

Nick Holt

Leaving you guys is the hardest decision we made in our young career. You guys don't need me any more.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Peter Clarke

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

John Jay Hooker

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

Jim Pitts

I'm also working with the governor to stop illegal immigration and improve Medicaid. Working together we will find other sources.

George Pataki

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

William O'Neill

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Dick Reed

If they have to do everything from Riverside, I don't know how we'll manage local emergencies.

Victor Lin

If we could get support from the state and from these local companies, there is no reason why it would not stay here. I see opportunity in Iowa.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

John Desmond

We need to use the local option. We're at that point.

Gerhard Schroeder

Military options can not help. We have experienced it,

Peggy Noonan

More was needed in terms of sending a US military presence into New Orleans.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Denis Hayes

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

Dilma Rousseff

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy.

Edgar Mitchell

I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

Eileen collins

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

Ehud Barak

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

Isabel Allende

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Joe Frazier

He's good. I think he's still a young man. If he stays here and works with us on the basics, we'll make him better than good.

Pete Jeffries

whatever was said in the room, stays in the room.

Richard Barber

But it stays within bounds, and that's an unusual system,

George Coleman

He waves and that's about it. He stays to himself.

Hasso Plattner

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.

Gordon Strachan

Naka is the same in that he stays on to practice. I just want him to keep doing what he does.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.