Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

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

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

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.

Chuck Smith

Mike King knew Peg Collier, whatever she sent in, would get beaten down. Mike King knew there was going to be kicking, fighting and screaming before (the bill) got to the entity authorized to pay.

John Ashcroft

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

Benjamin Franklin

Many men die at twenty- five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Bible Bible

So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Laura Haddock

I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

James M. Buchanan

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.

David Jones

If we don't provide that opportunity, then if we have a prodigy buried in there some place or some kind of gift, then it never shows.

Kevin McKeown

Chris had a great game. He stepped it up and buried the shots. In the last couple of games he passed up on a lot of shots he probably should have taken, but today he took them.

Diane White

She got stuck under the house, and I could hear her meowing, and I couldn't get her. She was 13 years old. That's kind of hard on the family. We buried her yesterday.

Richard Keller

Those other diseases didn't simply go away. They tended to be buried in at-risk populations who were the poorest and most marginalized.

Marie Kondo

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Carl Sandburg

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

Mike White

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Mohammed Habib

Maybe after the president wins elections, as we're sure he will, the freedoms that we've seen for the Brotherhood over the last year will be taken away.

Marsha Blackburn

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

J. Taylor

Man has proved to be a model sponsor and in particular has respected the independence and integrity of the prize.

Mahmoud Abbas

negatively influence the sovereignty and independence of Lebanon.

Karen Morgan

We won't get independence this time, but we are on our way.

Milos Zeman

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.

Abraham Lincoln

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Monica Seles

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

E. F. Schumacher

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Robert M. Pirsig

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

John Young

I didn't want people being trapped in Jefferson Parish without these services.

Bob Stanley

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

Mike Ricci

The only two teams we didn't see were Jefferson and Princeton.

Ben Stroud

I think Jefferson will be right up there with what we saw (in Salt Lake City). I'm not sure about Florida, but I think on paper, they should be as good.

Becky Bailey

It's an updated, modernized engraving. It's Jefferson as you've never seen him before.

Tina Brown

Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton.

Albert Schweitzer

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Dennis Prager

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

Dennis Prager

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Dennis Prager

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Dennis Prager

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Dennis Prager

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

Dennis Prager

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Denis Diderot

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Dennis DesRosiers

We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?

Vince Carter

I'm going to make Tim Thomas come here. So it doesn't matter. Only kidding.

Alan Bennett

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Bob McDonnell

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Bill Jenkins

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Brooks Robinson

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

Billy Campbell

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Argus Hamilton

The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

Argus Hamilton

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Brad Paisley

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.