Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Casey

Mike's doing a nice job. He's asserting himself offensively, and he's learning how to respond (in a positive manner) when things don't go well. That was a big problem a year ago. When things didn't go well, he'd get down (mentally) on himself. He's learning how to handle (adversity) this year.

Virginia Kice

We're asserting they are in violation of the terms of their visas and that they have no legal basis to be in the U.S..

Diaa Rashwan

He is asserting his presence. He is keen to show that he is aware of what's going on in the world. He is well informed so he is not isolated or hiding in some crack underground.

Isabella Bird

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.

Nicholas Butler

One of the embarrassments of being a gentleman is that you are not permitted to be violent in asserting your rights

Denis Kearney

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.

Eric S. Raymond

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

Meir Soloveichik

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

Joe Johnson

That just wasn't Jim Haslam. He was always willing to offer an opinion but never forcing you to do something or asserting a given opinion. He knew where that line was and stayed on the right side of it.

Charles Tupper

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

Charles de Gaulle

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Charles Caleb Colton

The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Charles Dickens

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Caitlin Kittredge

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

William Shakespeare

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

Mitch Kapor

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Charles Sumner

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Edward Merriam

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.

Jon Jansen

It's a violent game, a violent place to play.