Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cal Thomas

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Vince Megna

Police brutality is only effective when it is not caught on tape.

Mark Leno

No. 1, the crime would not have occurred. And the brutality would not have been (as bad) as it was. This was a hate crime because she was a transgender woman.

Chuck Schultz

Because of the brutality of the crime, that was an overriding factor for the jury in deciding for death for Mr. Morales, and the governor supported that decision.

Jim Martin

Because of the brutality in this case, because public information would help this investigation.

Bobby Bowden

He's gotten into a different situation now and needs to step it up. And it looks like he's got the message. He's got the physical part, the brutality part down. He just needs the finesse part, doing the things correctly and doing it smoothly. He's got the tools of somebody you can count on.

Ben Crump

We can never ever let anything like this happen again, and if we don't get this videotape out, people will never know the truth. Police brutality is unacceptable at any time.

Al Sharpton

The real loser is Rudy Giuliani, ... We proved how out of touch he is with the voters of New York. The issues of unemployment, police brutality and the schools not working are on the front burner. You can run, Rudy, but you can't hide.

Ruth Rendell

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Chris Christie

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Louis Stokes

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Lyndon Johnson

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Adlai E. Stevenson

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

Fred Siegel

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

Marcia Gay Harden

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

Bill Hader

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

Francia Raisa

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

Nathan Fielder

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

Harry Lloyd

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

Tuppence Middleton

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

John Eaton

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

Rocky Carroll

There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you're sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That's where drama comes from.

Mary Pope Osborne

When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Michael Lindell

There are lots of ways for levees to fail. Overtopping is just one of them,

Tom Underwood

There are lots of underlying problems in the whole system.

Jim Silver

There are lots of things that need to be done to revive Barbie.

Steven Vanderburg

There are lots of scattered showers over the ocean.

Kate Winslet

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Eric Woods

We're showing the film to show the underbelly of the porn industry.

Elma Damon

We're showing growth. It's pretty slow, but it's more up than down.

Brene Brown

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

French Montana

Every time I look at Twitter, there's always somebody showing support.

Adriana Trigiani

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

Joss Whedon

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

Brene Brown

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

ASAP Ferg

Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?

Elizabeth May

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power,

Dean Kamen

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Donald Barthelme

The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

Thomas Moore

Steals timidly away, shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.

Edith Cavell

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

Richard Garnett

he's not going to be a pushover or a shrinking violet.

Rob Kampia

I view NORML as a small and shrinking dinosaur. NORML's time has come and gone.

Mason Cooley

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Zig Ziglar

Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Alice McDermott

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Brian Eno

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

Carson McCullers

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

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

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.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Brian Smith

We're going to go down there, turn over every stone.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.