Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

Nick Harkaway

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

Joel Berg

Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.

Doug Whitley

I find it appalling that legislators would wish to gag employers so that they will not communicate with employees regarding public policies and civic issues, when we know employees would very much want to know what employers think about issues.

Eric Epstein

I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from stealing from the treasury. There should be an incentive to return the money.

Hugh Mackay

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Peter Baynham

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

David Walton

When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it.

Herman Gorter

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

Thomas Heatherwick

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

Olafur Eliasson

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

Adam Armstrong

She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.

Richard Andrews

We're honored to be the architects for these projects. Working with staff and school officials, we've tried to design a building that's functional and easy to maintain. When this is done, we want you all to look forward to coming to school and going to the classrooms we build.

Richard Rogers

Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client.

Richard Rogers

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

Dan Parker

If this is going to be our publicly projected national image, I think we need to send the architects back to the drawing board to come up with a more inclusive, positive message.

Thom Mayne

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

Terrie Williams

I don't know of any architects who want to do bad buildings.

Eion Bailey

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Craig Etcheson

We have investigated that back and forth and up and down, and there's just no evidence that he was involved in any prosecutable crimes during the period of jurisdiction for the tribunal. He looks clean.

Stockwell Day

Since 1962, violent crimes have increased from about 219 per 100,000 people to over 1000 per 100,000 people-a 500% increase. Divorce has increased from 36 per 10,000 people to 250-a greater than 600% increase.

Deborah Ellis

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

Bob Gould

This was an excellent result. The sentencing reflects the crimes committed.

William Wood

There can be no impediment to his extradition for the very serious crimes with which he is charged, ... We urge the government to move expeditiously so that he can be extradited.

Bill Young

We've come to a situation where those crimes are ignored,

Jeff Kline

To say there's no more of a heinous crime, you must not be reading the newspapers or watching television because there are all kinds of stories out there of little girls getting taken and killed. I can think of thousands of crimes that are more heinous.

Rafael Correa

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

Agnes Repplier

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Joel Diemond

The real history of the U.N. lies in the perceived failure of the League of Nations.

Susan B. Anthony

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

Tom Hooper

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Bryan Ferry

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Carter G. Woodson

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half

Johnny Thomas

We have to find some strong safeties and free safeties.

Beth Young

We were trying to get to the free throw line at the end of the (second) half. We couldn't get there.

Jerry Sloan

We were totally intimidated by the guy to start with because he had such free roam. We never got a hand in his face. He's a terrific player.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Alan K. Simpson

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Boris Becker

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Laila Robins

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Jana Novotna

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.