Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

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.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Chris Renner

We struggled early on with our team trying to identify their roles. That is what the early season and midseason tournaments are for. The guys have done that.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

Curtis Brown

We struggled early but otherwise, we held our own the rest of the way.

Rich Rogers

We started fixing the place up, probably in October. We put our first turkeys on the place in early December.

Charles Spurgeon

Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

Chita Rivera

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh

Chinua Achebe

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

David Crystal

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Dave Barry

Actually, there are people from all ove - not just Latin America, certainly not just Cuba, but all over Europe, all over the United States. I like that. I like knowing a lot of different types of people. And I can afford to live in a relatively safe part of Miami.

Carl Sagan

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

Cesar Romero

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Cesar Romero

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.

Carter G. Woodson

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Kym Whitley

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

Louis Bolden

Some motorists are moved to tears and others stop to chat.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Rachael Ray

She said the first rule is to be myself.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Ali Babacan

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

Anne Hutchinson

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.