Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Elizardo Sanchez

We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

Noreena Hertz

My mother was really involved with the Refusenik campaign with Soviet Union Jews. They would come and stay at our house, some of them, after they managed to get out of the Soviet Union at the time. There were things that were Jewish-related happening in my house quite consistently, but it was much more from a kind of activist standpoint.

Jim Gibbons

Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend,"" but in this case a country.

K. A. Applegate

We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby Show' came about. I think in his older years, he has gotten a lot more direct and vocal about it. But I think he only wants the best for all of us.

Eula Biss

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.

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.

Judy Dufault

She is an unsung hero. She's a community activist and a hard worker in the club.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Alan Greenspan

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Alan Greenspan

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Jamie Shea

We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.

James Hood

We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state.

Andrew Golden

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

Pat Keliher

We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time.

Louis Navellier

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

Kevin Logan

The only reason we wouldn't be able to make it (to the benefit concert) is if Pete got listed and we needed to leave. As soon as they list him then we need to get him down immediately.

Brian Schweitzer

makes no sense to harm other endangered species in the process.

Brett Nelson

Since we picked the scrub jay this year it was only natural to work with Oscar Scherer. The Florida scrub here is the most endangered environment in America.

William Bratton

We are taking the unprecedented step of sharing what we can with you, but I am not about to give to any of you tactics that might endanger my officers,

James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

Stephen Kintner

Scrub is probably the most endangered habitat type left in Florida.

Vivienne Westwood

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

John Young

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

Henry Brown

We should protect endangered species, but not at the expense of our property owners,

Ulrich Beck

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Kate Grenville

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

Jose Rizal

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Tim Jones

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.

Sergei Shoigu

We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

Robert Brown

We're still a youngish program. We're having to grassroots our tennis. We're laying the groundwork and being patient.

William Greene

We're a grassroots organization. We're not funded by big donors. If we're sending 2 to 3 million e-mails a week, paying a penny per e-mail will price us out.

Ed Perlmutter

They are the heart and soul of their communities. It's grassroots politics at its best.

Roger Baldwin

With large numbers coming, we will support the grassroots organization within our normal programs.

Cindy Sheehan

I kind of see their point that this was a grassroots thing that grew into a monster.

Robert Rich

This is a very grassroots movement. Most of my promoters are people like Allan who just want to help out.

Mark Rodgers

There's a heavy, heavy grassroots component. It's happening on a nationwide basis.

John Linder

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

Eliot Seide

The people who were put out of work were pawns in a very nasty and unnecessary political game.

Deborah Grey

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

Elizabeth Kostova

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Ayelet Waldman

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Adam Hochschild

It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.

Aldous Huxley

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Aldous Huxley

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Michael Boyd

I don't know who's going to live or who's going to die. But we do know this: it's going to be a very nasty competitive mess.

George R. R. Martin

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

Arizona Muse

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

Tom Stoppard

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Rusty Schweickart

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

Joss Whedon

Because you should always do something on a spaceship if you canà

Meg Cabot

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

Alan Pardew

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

William Morris

We are potentially vulnerable in just about anything we do anywhere.

Amanda Hocking

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

Amanda Schull

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

Alicia Keys

Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.

Alicia Keys

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

Colbie Caillat

I don't like being vulnerable. I feel uncomfortable in it.

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Errol Morris

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Ferran Adria

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.