Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Bonnefous

Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.

Mark Allison

Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their peaceful activities without fear of arbitrary detention, harassment or other human rights violations.

Kurt Eichenwald

If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.

John Carlisle

If Bank of America and other companies think they are buying peace from reparations activists with these million-dollar contributions, they are in for a rude surprise.

Rebecca MacKinnon

On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities.

Jim Dyke

Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.

Cathleen Schine

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Krishna Sitaula

The policemen followed them in a white van and one of them fired at the activists from close distance, but they managed to escape unhurt.

Nina Easton

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Jeanne Miller

Maggie had a lively spirit, full of fun and humor. The building will certainly be emptier without her.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

Ariel Sharon

Since then, I have worked tirelessly in all my meetings with Egyptians and others in order to do so,

Shereen El Feki

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.

Elliott Abrams

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

Meles Zenawi

I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story.

Mohammed Morsi

Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians.

Peter Lacovara

We approached the Egyptians first. It was kind of the reverse of normal. ... At first they had to be convinced.

Anthony Sampson

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Russell Crowe

What is Egyptian cotton, and why would I travel with my own sheets?

Lee Quillen

The plants that are going to be the largest 10 years from now should be the largest ones you put in the ground.

Henry Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Nick Frey

I don't have any problem with it. It may not be the largest in volume in the state, but the old vines have the longest tradition of the major varietals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Zac Goldsmith

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Howard Stern

Yeah, OK, Michael, ... That's why I've received the largest fines in history.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Gillian Jacobs

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

E. Hicks

From the farmers' standpoint, they feel they've been there for generations, and they don't like to think they'll be moved out for development.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

James E. Rogers

I have been a resident of Nevada for 52 years. When I moved here, Las Vegas had a little over 22,000 people and Reno was only slightly larger.

Kym Whitley

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

Louis Bolden

Some motorists are moved to tears and others stop to chat.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

John Lovelock

We don't think it was being shared for profit.

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Larry Jacobs

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

David Wojciechowski

For sure he's going to play. It's a state championship game.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Wendell Byrd

When we say local, we say the state of Virginia and Maryland.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

David Jensen

Iwish the state would have done that, and Ithink they will in two years,

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Carson McCullers

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

Nathan Barankin

a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

Tom Colicchio

I don't have a Facebook page and I don't think I will but Twitter for me is a way to take control of the message. Kind of wrestle it back. It's something I'm enjoying.

Lance Gross

If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.

Banks

I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.

John Knapp

Twitter is the samizdat of the 21st Century.

Andrew Luck

I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

Joss Whedon

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

Patricia Bryant

She was there until the week before she died.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Michelle Wie

I didn't want to write anything on my scorecard until I made a birdie.

John Oates

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

Samuel L. Jackson

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Waite Hoyt

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.