Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Reilly

Many of the closeted people ... do use the Internet, because of the anonymity afforded by e-mail address. We're hoping to reach people who may not hear all the fuss.

Marsha Blackburn

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

Masayoshi Son

Softbank's Internet-focused strategy in recent years has served its shareholders well, ... We believe we have just scratched the surface of the opportunities afforded by the Internet.

Eric Stern

Mrs. King argued that our nation would not fulfill its promise unless all Americans, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens, were afforded equal treatment under the law.

Terri Johnson

My impression is there haven't been many complaints filed either in employment or public accommodations, but that isn't a very old law. Maybe a lot of persons aren't aware that sexual orientation is afforded protected standing.

Source Unknown

When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

Chris Stiepock

There are many athletes out there who would covet an X Games gold over an Olympic gold. I've heard it come from athletes mouths - and I'm sure their agents are standing next to them smirking - but when you win an X Games medal, you are instantly afforded a reputation that perhaps you aren't afforded in the Olympics.

Dean Winters

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.

Mark Rush

She wishes to hear all of the relevant information before she makes a decision, so she has afforded us the opportunity to meet with her.

Rick Chryst

Several years we thought we had deserving teams, and for whatever reason, it hasn't happened.

Shane Sisco

Obviously they've meant a lot to our program. They're very deserving of this honor.

Tullian Tchividjian

Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.

Elfriede Jelinek

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

Brian Pritts

She's very deserving of this honor. She works extremely hard and she's relentless in making herself better. I have high expectations for her in the future.

Charles Coles

She's deserving of all the recognition she's received. She's a hard worker who is always in shape, I hate to lose her.

John Hughs

She's a joy to read and always refreshing, on point, knowledgeable, insightful, thoughtful and most deserving of the newspaper's highest ranking honor.

Michael Toups

I did not want to lose on Gene's big night. He is so deserving of the honor. I wanted our players to play with the passion and enthusiasm that would be appropriate in honoring him.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Sundar Pichai

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

George Crook

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

Daryl Kimball

If the Indians mean what they say (about not testing), they should have no quibble with this provision.

Geoff Hoon

encouraging because it shows the Indians are showing a first step back from the brink.

Subcomandante Marcos

We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

Richard Armitage

We have to seize the moment, ... probe the minds of the Pakistanis and Indians to see if there is not a way to lower the temperature.

Melissa Leo

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

David Cardwell

It's no secret that the Indians and Orioles here are looking for new spring training deals.

Mike Harris

I want the f------ Indians out of the park,

Isabella Rossellini

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

Madeline Albright

make the ledger slightly less out of balance.

Joseph Seamon

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Robert Lang

Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.

Debbie Horne

Less than two weeks after her surgery, I took her to Target. She had her little yellow mask on.

James Hardway

Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.

Jacob Frenkel

Less rope is needed for two necks as the Government's noose tightens.

Lynn Williams

I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.

Jon Voight

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Dave Barry

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

Casey Miller

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

Beau Bridges

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Dennis Banks

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.

Chief Seattle

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Chief Seattle

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Dennis Prager

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Elbert Hubbard

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

Eduardo Galeano

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Chen Guangbiao

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Ronda Rousey

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Eliot Spitzer

Somehow the vitality of New York state has been sapped.

Robert Wilson

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

Pat Bennett

One never did anything without talking to the other first. That is the way it is supposed to be.

Chris Harris

I feel like I'm supposed to be here.

Richard Hawkins

If we know what we're supposed to be doing, then we'll do it.

E. Hicks

She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.

Mike Landry

She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.

Richard Lee

If they're supposed to be at work we'll know that, if they're supposed to be at a treatment program, we'll know that there at a treatment program.

Kenny G

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.

David Sedaris

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

Bill O'Reilly

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Austin Butler

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

Diana Wynne Jones

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

Adele

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

Ani Difranco

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

J. K. Rowling

Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, And treat them just the same.

Nick Hornby

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

Michelle Obama

Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.