Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Terry Abbott

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Sandy Nelson

One of our biggest risks is to hand over our brand name to a company or owner and hope they carry the torch, ... Our customers look at us as a chain ? as if we had complete control of hiring, firing and standards ? all things that make a brand. (Superior Air) was an easy fit in that their attitudes, beliefs system and values are equal to what we believe.

Richard Suzman

Odds are the findings are significantly related to the underlying religious beliefs of this population.

Tom Maeser

My guess is we have people who have these beliefs here but they are not going to publicly demonstrate here as much as they would somewhere else.

John Roberts

My faith and my religious beliefs do not play a role.

Emeril Lagasse

Now that years have gone by and I look back at it and I can put one and two together, it was my childhood memories and cultural feelings and beliefs in the whole tie-in of the French Canadian/Portuguese thing.

David Rudolf

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me; it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement; and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

Whoopi Goldberg

. . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone.

Jeb Bush

I have a voice: I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way.

Christopher Paolini

I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

Pete MacArthur

We're not doing anything special. We're just doing all the little things that coach talks to us about everyday in practice. We're just benefiting from it right now. We're just going to keep doing that.

Todd Fox

Man, four state placers and the school's first top 10 finish. It's a head coach's dream come true and speaks to my great coaching staff.

JaJuan Smith

Like coach said, we've done what we're supposed to do. Now we've got to take it up a level.

Tyler Palko

Like coach said, we're not playing well right now, but we're getting better and we're going to keep fighting. Football's a rough game. It's a tough game. Things don't always go your way. It's a test of manhood to see what kind of guys we have on this football team.

Todd Blersch

Like anything else, it's a lot of on-the-job training. The more experience you have, the more you see and the better you are at what you do. It's no different than if somebody was trying to coach in the Super Bowl.

Terrell Buckley

Life is not fair. You're one game away from a championship one year, the next year they let him go somewhere else. His coaching didn't change. You never want to be where you've proved you can win but there are still questions.

Flip Saunders

Like I said, I think a coach is as good as the players he has. You do have to drive them. You've got to make sure to put them in the right situations. And we have a group that's very committed as far as what we're doing.

Xavier Perkins

Mainly just the coaching staff. I didn't have to go far away. The coaches with experience know what they're doing.

Ron Lynch

Magnolia reminds me a lot of Deer Park. There are good, hard-working kids. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to coach them.

Stanley Burrell

We're not defending like we usually do. It's putting us in a position where we all have to score the ball, because we're not getting stops. We're not defending at all. That's been our motto. That's our identity. We defend, and we get stops.

Rodney Harrison

We're not defending anything, because we don't have anything. (This) is a new season, just like 2005 is a new season for the Raiders.

Mick Durham

We're not defending and offensively we don't play together. Those are the two things that define us at this point.

Alan Curbishley

Luke defends well and he gets forward too,

Matt Brady

Liberty plays so hard. They run hard, they rebound hard, they post defend hard. If you have poise, you give yourself a better chance.

Daniel Nepstad

Many indigenous groups are very well organized, and they are also willing to use force to defend their lands.

Kim Yuna

Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.

Mike Williamson

Mike has really developed into a guy where if you need a goal, you have him in on the ice and the same when you are defending the lead. He plays in all situations and provides leadership in the dressing room. He logs a ton of ice time.

Ivica Dacic

Milosevic did not die in The Hague, he was killed in The Hague. But, he had managed to defend the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serb people, and everybody should be grateful to him for that.

David Gilmour

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

Chuck Amato

We've been getting them up early. We've been practicing early. It don't know if that has any consequence. Whether that makes a difference, I don't know.

Donald Glover

I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.

Rob Gronkowski

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

Chuck Barta

If it wasn't a bye week, he probably would be practicing and going through the things he had been going through.

Dan Brown

If we aren't practicing now we're going to be in trouble in April.

Shannon Flaherty

It is his right, and he has been practicing that right.

Philippe Petit

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

Kimmie Meissner

I think I could have done much better. I've been practicing a lot better, but it's my first pretty big international competition, so I think I did pretty good.

Dale Groutage

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Patricia Edwards

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

Neil Kinnock

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Casper Dien

When I do a film I go out and promote it.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Jonah Peretti

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

Dennis Potter

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

Denis Diderot

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Elbert Hubbard

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion

Elbert Hubbard

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Elbert Hubbard

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Albert Schweitzer

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Dennis Prager

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

Dennis Prager

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Dennis Prager

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Dennis Prager

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Dennis Prager

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

Dennis Prager

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Denis Diderot

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Dennis Whitling

My inclination is to support this letter, and support it now.

Ron Wilson

Obviously, it was an ugly scene. But I support (Parker) 100 percent.

Dennis Weaver

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Maria Zampaglione

If an outbreak of avian influenza were to be proven, there would be a lot of support needed.

Kevin Browne

If an immigration makes things better for them in the country, we will support it.

Dave Morin

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Abraham Lincoln

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Scott Strauss

I got to support my family. That's how I was raised.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.