Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Tim Birkhead

Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look.

Michael Leunig

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Nell Newman

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

Rachel Remen

Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

Bill Gates

Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or by being able to run on less expensive hardware.

Heather Strong

She tells us about staying in the moment, avoiding distractions, staying confident. She talks about team dynamics.

Boethius

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Ned Riley

We're back to looking at the fundamentals and, at least temporarily, avoiding gossip and rumors.

Tom DeLay

with the intent that a felony be committed.

Dena Erwin

For some time he's had a felony warrant out. We notified San Francisco and left it up to them how they'd make the arrest.

John Buchanan

I feel very strongly that once someone has paid the penalty for the felony they have committed, that their voting rights should be restored.

Paul Boyce

While this may not rise to the level of a felony crime, it's still serious.

M. Thompson

If they're caught, they'll get prosecuted fullest extent, ... It's a felony in this state.

Jim Sughrue

We were coordinating for a possible felony stop but didn't have to do that.

Heather Collins

Somone in the middle of the street was hit. Whether she's out there legally or not, she was struck, ... At this point it's just a vehicular assault, but it's probably just a misdemeanor charge, not a felony charge.

Benjamin Johnson

It wouldn't just be the 12 million undocumented immigrants that are subject to a felony prosecution. It would be lots of other people ... who are temporarily out of status or whose violations of immigration law were very innocent.

Issam Ghazzawi

The adjournment is not enough time to study such a case. Even in a felony you get more than 20 days. We must have more than a month for this case,

Kim Evans

We're investigating whether its appropriate for the offenders that are under our watch to live there.

Tom Ross

We didn't want our system so stuffed with nonviolent offenders that we were paroling violent offenders. What makes sense is to use those resources for your most violent offenders.

Robin Pemberton

If we get repeat offenders or something, we could park somebody.

Mike Viesca

A warrant was issued for Robert Durst today after witnesses saw the offender in Galveston on Dec. 16. By being there, Durst violated the terms of his supervision that restrict his schedule and travel.

Sen. Stepp

I want to know if there's a sex offender skulking around my kid's school.

John Locke

If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender

Charles Rose

They might, even though it may not be legal, be able to effectively keep everyone out. It's a sophisticated way to keep sex offenders out of the city.

Jane Austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Source Unknown

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

Wally Snyder

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

Edward Kennedy

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

Charles Spurgeon

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Charles Spurgeon

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

John Gibson

We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

John M. Smith

There ain't going to be trouble today because they got police everywhere. It's going to be all right because no one wants to go to jail.

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Chester Gould

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Chester Brown

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

Charlaine Harris

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Barbara Ehrenreich

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

Carol Leifer

Like a lot of women, I'm bisexual. Once I have sex with you - bye!

Carol Leifer

Oh, this is fun - went to a nude beach for the first time. Yeah, that's what I thought. You ever been to a nude beach? Thought it would be all sexy and hot. Oh my God, what a flubber fest! Everybody who shouldn't be naked is naked - didn't make me want to take off my clothes, made me want to take out my contacts.

Carlos Fuentes

Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.

C. S. Lewis

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Agnes Smedley

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.

Aaron Sorkin

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

Alan King

Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

Alan King

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.