Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Terry Abbott

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

B. F. Skinner

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Sam Veda

The person who is basically evil by nature will always be averse to virtuous deeds. He is always engaged in bad karma.

John Cruickshank

He was constantly demanding that we write negative stories about nonadvertisers and positive stories about advertisers - which, of course, we didn't do. He wasn't averse to quality journalism; he just thought it should go on someplace else.

Thomas Gray

What female heart can gold despise? / What cat's averse to fish?

Laurie Helgoe

Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed by too much of it, which explains why the introvert is ready to leave a party after an hour and the extravert gains steam as the night goes on.

Mary Mitford

Dogs are all, more or less, physiognomists, and commonly pretty determined aristocrats, fond of the fine and averse to the shabby, distinguishing, with a nice accuracy, the master castes from the pariahs of the world.

Samina Ahmed

It's a huge decision for them to take; there will obviously be some that are averse to shifting the role.

A. Hodge

I don't think any of us are averse to the development. St. Joe has had trouble in dealing with the law.

Keith Ashdown

Senators are betting that pandering to the public with billions in election-year promises will pay off more than they lose by cutting the fiscal conservatives in their own party off at the knees.

Bob Wright

When you put your investment in content - which is what we have done and will continue to do - you're not betting on any one technology. You're betting on them all.

Chuck Schumer

I for one have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, wondering how I should vote, ... This is a vote over the chief justice of the Supreme Court ... this isn't just rolling the dice, it's betting the whole house.

Mark Fitzgerald

Given the big discount to other optical equipment manufacturing stocks, we think the downside is limited. We think it is worth buying the stock and are betting that management will deliver.

Li Rong

Given such high copper prices, no traders dare to put on short positions, and that's why volume reduced. Some traders pulled investments from copper into aluminum, betting gains in aluminum might be bigger.

Paul Griffiths

From a betting odds perspective, what is the most unlikely thing to have happened in football?

Jules Verne

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

John Burton

I would have gone broke betting that she wouldn't do it.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even really care, to be totally honest. I'm really concerned about the lineup. I know I'm not betting on getting any hits off him, I'm just trying to keep the game as close as I can to give my team a chance.

Ronald Kessler

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

Audrey Hepburn

Let me tell you something, Mister. If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is.' - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Kevin Garnett

makes us, at times, unstoppable because the break is going so fast.

Mary Pearl

Lethal viruses tend to flare up and disappear. The fact that the outbreak is over does not mean we can pretend it's not a problem, or that it's not coming back. But by identifying the link between SARS and the human population, we can take steps to break that link.

John Cleveland

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

Brent Gentry

Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing in their sons and daughters to fish. Some of the teams are coming from as far away as Indiana and Missouri.

Mark Shapiro

Last year was a breakout year for him in terms of command. Hopefully he can help us during the year at some point.

Bobby Jones

Lets collide and get it over with. We've had our list of streaks to break and been checking them off. This is our improvised list. Everybody knows what it takes. We're playing the team expected to win the national championship. Either you bring it or you don't.

Cherie Blair

Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.

John Gilbride

Like grave robbers, who have no respect for the dead, this drug organization used revered tombstones to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into New York City.

Bill Green

Lynn is just a neophyte in the business. And all of the sudden, he gets a quarter-million dollars from people who don't even live here.

Mike Abe

Let's see, I'll be paying $3300 dollars next year if nothing changes.

Alan Greenspan

Many homeowners might have saved tens of thousands of dollars had they held adjustable-rate mortgages rather than fixed-rate mortgages during the past decade.

Eli Broad

several million dollars when all is said and done.

Linda Miller

Seventy-five dollars for the yearbook, $5 for the planner, $35 for the PTA, a $100 donation to football, $28 for P.E. clothes, $30 for pictures, $55 for an ASB sticker ---- what's that come to?

Russell Schweiss

Scripps has not made any indications that they want to do embryonic stem-cell research in Florida. And the governor has said under his watch, there won't be state dollars going to embryonic stem-cell research.

Nobuaki Kubo

Sentiment on the dollar has not improved yet and its rise will be short-lived as it was driven by technical trade.

Adam Cole

Sentiment is generally negative for the dollar even in the face of good news. The market is looking through the expected rate hikes. If you take away the interest rate support for the dollar... and the structural problem is still there, the trend for the dollar is downwards.

Robert Kazinsky

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Dave Balza

Like I said, it's hard. It's hard to be positive when you're losing.

Viktor Kozlov

Like I said before, it's like a lottery. It's hard to score in the shootout.

Tim Kearney

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Pamela Smith

Lucinda was my only child, and she was God-given, and I know somewhere, somewhere I will come to terms that it was her time. But it was how it happened, and why it happened, that I have a hard time with. I miss her so much.

Kayla Rengel

Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our off days.

Ozzie Guillen

Losing Tony is something that is hard on the Latin community.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Mikael Silvestre

Maybe we are relaxing too much in defense. At international level you get punished.

Bob Gansler

No one else has this specific kind of (artificial) turf. You have to up your level of concentration, because you are not going to get used to it in 90 minutes. We concentrated and strung some passes together and did well with it.

Larry Fitzgerald

My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I'm playing the way that I normally play here. Just nothing is happening.

Deepak Chopra

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Jason Kello

We need to meet the same level of funding.

Robert Kargon

We want to make sure that the level of student is high, and I would say we're selective, but not as selective as the undergraduate program (at Hopkins). Not yet, anyway.

M. Wolfe

On one level it is humorous, ridiculous and absurd. On another level it is scary.

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.

Hamid Karzai

Lots of people had much misinformation. The second report, the official report, will be much more accurate,

Rose Fong

Lots of people come in and tell us this is where they had their first date.

Patricia Green

Lots of people are moving out, ... I'm not the type to move out. I won't move out. Where would I go? Where will I go with these two old men?

Michelle Tea

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

Charlie McCreevy

Lots of member states seem to be wanting to put up unjustified barriers." ()

Judah Friedlander

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Dan Gelber

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

Kristin Cast

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Ben Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate? I didn't know if there were 12 or 1 (who were alive).

Bennett Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate?

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.

Terry Fox

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.