Famous Quotes & Sayings

M.I.A.

I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

Phil Klay

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

Condoleezza Rice

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

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Timothy Noah

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Peter T. King

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

Fred Woodworth

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Anja Niedringhaus

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

Ross Norman

Were it not for that we might have expected gold to be $10 or even $15 higher than it currently is.

Thomas Woods

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Robbie Freeman

Most vessels of this size currently must leave our state for service.

Rick Ross

We're having a little trouble with him currently doing a closing. We're having a little difficulty with Wilfred.

Tawnya Gurney

We're always trying to find something to go with the personalities we currently have here.

Christopher Knight

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

Keith Roberts

We have in custody seven males and one female. They are being processed at Pembroke Pines station and eventually they will be sent to Krome detention center.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've spent the day talking to people and seeing the steps that have been taken to see that those types of abuses to people for whom we have a responsibility and custody will not happen again,

Dan Roberts

Nobody's ruled out. The girl isn't back in custody and until that happens nobody will be ruled out.

Mark Fagan

He cooperated and was taken into custody without incident, as were all the others.

S. Walker

Her husband would just walk right in her house. She told him to get out. I heard them yelling over custody of the kids.

Greg Craig

When he receives assurances that he will have custody of his son.

Roger Waters

He was in custody when our officers got there, ... There's no need for an investigation. We didn't lay a hand on him.

Emily LaGrassa

He is in police custody in England at this time.

Capt. Conklin

He is a good guy to have in our custody at this time.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Wendy Raquel Robinson

When I'm having a really rough day, I take it out in the gym. It releases so many endorphins in your body.

William Scranton

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alain Resnais

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.