Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Mineau

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions. The coalition believes it is confusing and unethical to restrict citizens to one vote on two opposing issues, which this amendment would have done.

Michael Chertoff

Searching Jane and Mary Doe for evidence beyond the scope of the warrant and without probable cause violated their clearly established 4th Amendment rights,

Patrick Buchanan

Sen. Dole can avoid this fight if he simply stands up and says, 'Listen, I ran as a pro-life candidate. I'm committed to Ronald Reagan's plank in that platform. I do not want a battle on the convention floor. If there is a battle, I will stand with those who stand with the human life amendment and if necessary, I will speak on its behalf,

Susan Collins

Senator Graham's amendment complements Senator McCain's amendment. At the same time, his amendment prevents detainees who are not U.S. citizens from filing habeas corpus lawsuits in federal courts.

Timothy Karr

Network neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet. Net neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online - and the public demands Congress not dismantle it.

Sam Brownback

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly, ... The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Donna Mutzenard

More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pay them a living wage to actually buy a home and live in our community.

David Buckel

New Jersey is a unique state nationally when it comes to this issue. That became very clear with a governor's race in which candidates on both sides opposed an amendment to the state constitution that would limit marriage to a man and a woman.

Jessi Klein

If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.

Robert Palmer

I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.

Marcy Kaptur

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.

Marc Faber

Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.

Marc Bolan

I honestly feel it could all end tomorrow. Not just the band thing - I mean life.

Malin Akerman

In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

Marnie Stern

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.

Hugh Grant

Lifting of the ban is the first step. But with the labeling, the glass remains half full, half empty.

John Rothfield

Major central banks in the world have talked about hiking rates, so if the Bank of Canada signals they are coming to the end of rate increases, it may push investors to sell the Canadian dollar further.

LK Advani

Main problem of Bangladesh was its culture of denial by the government by not acknowledging how can the problem be solved,

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Richard Rogers

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.

Roger Sherman

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Marc Morial

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

Major Owens

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.

John Thompson

Levy limits were discussed this year, but not enforced. Some of that's just every-year political stuff, but you don't know until the Legislature adjourns for the year what they really will do to us.

Carol Chastang

Many lenders may not have discussed the STAR program specifically with the borrower.

Malcolm Speed

Moving venues was one of the issues discussed today.

Jaime Suchlicki

None of us want what we discussed here. It's the most likely scenario, but it's not what we wish for.

Emyr Parry

We had a very good meeting. We discussed the elements that France and the UK put down. These are now being referred to capitals and I expect we will have an early meeting later this week to see what the reactions are with a view to making progress on the text.

Sarah Williams

We met with them and discussed the purchase - if not the outright purchase of the whole property, then for parts of it.

Kofi Annan

If they sat and discussed frankly and openly, I think we will be able to find a solution,

Keith Self

I don't have the foggiest idea what Rick is referring to. There was one incident with an overzealous supporter that I discussed with Rick.

Rick Ott

I discussed the possibility. It is always a tool in the tool box.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Machinery makers are enjoying steady increases in their production. Japan's strong economy is boosting domestic demand.

Ian Stewart

Loose monetary policy is working its way through the economy and what started as an export recovery is broadening out into domestic demand. There have been false dawns before but this does look encouraging.

Joe Barton

More refineries will result in more domestic production of gasoline.

Maria Semple

My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.

Bill O'Grady

Natural gas is the real worry. Unfortunately we can't import the missing production. This is largely a domestic market.

David Wyss

We might have a lower unemployment rate and a somewhat lower gross domestic product, but it wouldn't be a huge impact.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

Fourth-quarter GDP was underpinned by strong domestic consumption, and these latest figures show consumption remained strong at the turn of the year.

Stephane Deo

From a growth point of view, this means less domestic demand, and a poor growth performance.

Ali Shamkhani

Fundamental strategies are needed on the domestic scene while in our relations with the world we need to proceed with authority,

Bill Self

Last year, there were the seniors and then there was the rest of the team. This year, because we're so young and everybody's kind of an unproven commodity, everybody's about the same. I do think this is a closer-knit group maybe than we had last year.

Ron Robson

Softball is something I strive to do. Where else could you go out and meet this group of guys without playing ball?

Shaun Alexander

Mike is just so key for us as a team, as a group of young men trying to grow up.

Stanley Ho

Mocha Slots was the primary contributor to our group results with turnover of HK$63 million; with 700 machines we have 25% of the Macau market,

Joe Tiller

My initial take on this group is that it's my second-best staff. It may prove to be the best.

Todd Wilkinson

My first task is how we can win the Group A bracket.

Reg Alcock

one of a group that jumps around looking for a hot spot so they can slander people without substantial evidence. It's disgraceful.

Tom Jones

No one individual or group wants to be in-politically correct, so they leave it alone.

John Schneider

One thing we put on our maps was population in the next ten years. Half of us said there would be a 10-15 percent increase, to about 28,500. The rest of the group said it would be more in the 30,000 to 35,000 range.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Henry Charles Carey

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

Anacharsis Anacharsis

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Mary Mark

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

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Ryan Julison

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

David Dunn

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

Dick Reed

If they have to do everything from Riverside, I don't know how we'll manage local emergencies.

Victor Lin

If we could get support from the state and from these local companies, there is no reason why it would not stay here. I see opportunity in Iowa.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

John Desmond

We need to use the local option. We're at that point.

Neil Chethik

Men recognize marriage is going to be a roller coaster. But they're willing to ride it out because they like the company.

Charles R. Swindoll

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

Diane Sawyer

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Elbert Hubbard

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

Elbert Hubbard

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Dean Rusk

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Eduardo Galeano

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ...

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Hilary Rhoda

I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Neil Levine

We don't have any specific allocation for it yet.

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,

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Fernando Alonso

I need to find new targets because this one is done.

Theophilus London

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Bill Laswell

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

Dave Gahan

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.

Ricky Gervais

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Dylan Thomas

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Adam Hamilton

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Jeff Conine

B-Rob was text messaging me every hour, 'Come on back, buddy.

Ian Taylor

There's just no textbook for this. Nobody's ever been through anything like this.

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Hillary Clinton

I'm going to stand up for what [Donald Trump] says and does that is threatening to Americans, to the lives of Americans, the rights of Americans.

J. K. Rowling

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Andy Stern

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.