Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Monk Kidd

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Robert Walpole

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Stanley Hauerwas

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

David French

With a lot of the red-state government officials you have a near-total abolition of the preexisting strong bias toward Northeast schools.

John Boyle O'Reilly

The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

Gloria Steinem

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.

John Martin

I would work for the abolition of animals. If Prof Aziz legitimately thinks otherwise then that's a defensible position because it was the law in this country to do it, it is the law in other countries to do it.

Bob Garcia

We have never had bites, attacks and injuries as we have seen with any breed like we've had with pit bulls.

Ben Crenshaw

There is a little bit of Ben Hogan in that swing. The way he attacks the ball. He's played some great golf in his career.

Elliott Abrams

The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.

Lisa Sampson

The personal attacks and the attacks on the group are inappropriate.

Rob Schilling

The perception coming in is that you're going to be opening yourself up to personal attacks and ridicule from other councilors.

Leith Kubba

We strongly condemn these attacks and offer our condolences to the families of the victims.

Michael Hayden

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

Bruce Bochy

When I heard about Doug, I immediately thought of Rick and my father. No question, heart attacks are the silent killer.

Nancy Merrill

Women often have atypical symptoms of heart attacks when compared to men.

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Carlos Castaneda

Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.

C. S. Lewis

It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.

C. S. Lewis

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Agnes Smedley

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

Charlie Daniels

So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

Charles de Gaulle

They really are bad shots.

Charles de Gaulle

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Tom Lewis

MLK really left his mark even today and influences us in our community.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Adam Hicks

I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life.

Alexandra Shipp

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Robert Quine

To me, the positive thing about it was we were pulling out these old influences like the Velvet Underground and the Stooges that were gone.

Bruce Jackson

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Gregg Andrews

We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006.

Kevin Furtado

Pinot noir is very site specific. You can recognize a Russian River style. The area's influences is why the taste is so unique.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Dennis Schain

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Jeff Judkins

We have to go in and play with a lot of confidence. We know if we win we are in first place no matter what.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Tim Sheens

We've sort of got used to him being in the squad no matter what.

Marc Newson

The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,

Richard G. Scott

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

Bret Easton Ellis

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Allison Anders

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Ken Sheldon

We've got nobody out there, an ambulance has to come from Jerome to treat those people.

Cliff Carrier

We've got it pretty well covered. The numbers out here don't matter, though. It's the numbers inside, and there's nobody in there.

Neve McIntosh

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

Ann Marsh

She was in the water. She watched it happen. There was nothing that nobody could do,

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

C. S. Lewis

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

April Glaspie

We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

Brian Eno

I'm very opinionated.

Karl Lagerfeld

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Jane Austen

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Cher

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Jozef Stumpel

Right now, I don't understand what is a penalty shot.

Craig Miller

We've been preparing for the penalty phase for some time now.

Mary Wilson Little

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Dean Fryer

We know the penalty will be at least $100,000.

Mike Sherman

We have a long way to go. The penalty situation is inexcusable, and that comes back to me, as I told the players, but I put it on them right now because we have to get that worked out. That will not work this season if we have that many penalties. Playing stupid like that does not bode well.

Clay Peterson

If we wouldn't have had the time penalty or we wouldn't have had the wreck, we would have won that division.

Don Waddell

I always say the players pick this team, not us. You can't have a team of 12 first-line NHL players. You need role players, checkers, penalty killers. You can't just take the 12 most skilled forwards.

Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Carlos Mencia

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Carl Bernstein

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Andre

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

C. S. Lewis

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Charles W. Pickering

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Susan B. Anthony

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

The Mighty Hannibal

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Tom Rogers

What happens? We just, in turn, raise our prices.

Walter Mondale

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.

Matt Zito

Lucent is trading at around $10 so how in the world are they going to raise capital?

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Tibby Johnston

Most stories are related to respect. So they know that we need to respect everything.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Siri Hustvedt

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

Lars Peter Hansen

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Bill Ayers

Terrorists destroy randomly.

Asa Hutchinson

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

Bashar al-Assad

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

Alexander Torshin

That could have prevented the terrorist attack. But they weren't fulfilled.

Jay Wright

I thought it was a terrorist attack, ... I had no idea what was going on.

Cindy Sheehan

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.

Donald Trump

It just seems terrorists have an open blanket.

Donald Trump

We should turn cyber warfare into one of our greatest weapons against the terrorists. And they have to know its coming because right now, they know nothing about us.