Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

Jay Francis

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

Melanie Hill

We are looking in the future to expand it to other branches of the armed forces.

Li Bingbing

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

Nicolas Maduro

President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible. Europe should think about the bombings and the destruction of Libya that filled the country with terrorists. Who's truly ruling Libya's military and sending thousands of armed men to fight in Syria? It's Al Qaeda.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to re-implement a draft. There is no need for it at all, ... The disadvantages of using compulsion to bring into the armed forces the men and women needed are notable.

Muqtada al Sadr

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

Fouad Siniora

We expressed our views that the presence of armed personnel and armaments outside the camps is not necessary and not helpful, ... As for the presence of armed personnel within the camps, this is going to be looked at in order to organize it.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade.

Brendan Taman

The other thing we need is Canadian depth.

Paul Tate

We're interested in continuing to grow our Denver presence and clearly a natural link or extension would be Canadian service.

Joe Sakic

When you think of Canadian hockey, he was the greatest ever to play the game. When he talks, everybody listens. He has that much knowledge and respect, and whatever he has to say is important. It's not that we can't win without him, but we feel that much stronger with him.

Ralph Goodale

We want every Canadian to have an opportunity to experience the fulfillment, empowerment and freedom that flow from higher learning,

Rick Moranis

When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.

Jack Layton

Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.

Michael Shanks

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

Tony Valeri

We're focused on keeping the House open, not shutting it down, ... It's the opposition that seems to be focused on shutting it down and dragging Canadians back to the polls.

John Matheson

We know he hasn't got any money...the American people say he hasn't got any money and the Canadians say he doesn't have any money...he tried the same scheme here.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Travis Bradberry

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Fidel Castro

The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Edward Johnson, III

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Georgie Fame

When I was a kid,if you were lucky, you listened to that music on Radio Luxembourg or the American Forces Network.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Kathleen Sebelius

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

Eric Long

When you put yourself in the position to have to come back like that it forces your hand. You have to make every play and you can't make a mistake. But the story of this game was told in the first four minutes.

Patty Schnyder

She puts huge pressure on me. She is so present on the court. She really forces you back. It's tough to get the rallies going and move her around.

R. Ingram

What I can say is that U.S. forces helped to provide urgent medical support at the scene of the incident, something for which I know our forces are grateful,

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Charles Caleb Colton

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Charles Spurgeon

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

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

David Dunn

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

Ryan Julison

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

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Keith Cooper

We want to keep it local and we want to keep it Canadian.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Natasha Trethewey

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Francis Lockier

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

James Sensenbrenner

We're doing this to stop the next terrorists and to take necessary steps to protect the American people,

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Dennis Kucinich

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

Bill O'Reilly

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

E. O. Wilson

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

Dick Morris

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

Joan Collins

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

Newt Gingrich

Donald Trump's not a sexual predator.

Mallory Ortberg

Someone who responds to "Please don't grope me" with whining and pouting isn't a friend. He's an asshole and a predator.

Robert D. Hare

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Tom Holt

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

Donald Judd

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

Greek proverb

A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient

Judith Rodin

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Charles Spurgeon

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Alan Parker

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Alan Perlis

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

Akhmad Kadyrov

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

Chogyam Trungpa

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Chogyam Trungpa

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.