Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lionel Jospin

like a thunderbolt ... particularly worrying for France and for our democracy.

Corazon Aquino

Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our democracy and who are searching for the truth.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

Now we must ensure a free and fair election. This is a big victory for democracy.

Audrey Miller

Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to influence state law. Little old me spoke and I was heard. It?s democracy in action.

Diane Ravitch

An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy

Democritus

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Edward Abbey

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

David Anderson

I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

Lee Williams

My job is to grow this business. We've got programs with great opportunities and that's what I want workers to keep focused on.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Don Blandin

More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grounded in a plan and they're saving blindly. They really don't know if they're saving enough.

Amy Ellis

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.

Dennis Prager

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

Eliot Engel

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

David Irving

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

Chris Abani

The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

Benazir Bhutto

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

Benjamin Netanyahu

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

Bob Balaban

Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.

Elie Wiesel

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

Elie Wiesel

It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Fiona Shaw

I mainly have a nice time in my life.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She took that shot mainly because she's a winner.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Terry Teachout

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

Jonathan Coe

Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.