Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Lowery

make sure there's no abuse of citizens who want to exercise their right to vote.

Dr. Kovacik

Make sure there's a designated driver or get a cab. Never drink alone or on an empty stomach and don't drink to get drunk. People say that takes the fun out of drinking but that's the rule that psychiatrists and substance abuse programs use.

Falun Gong

Many of these stories are completely fabricated. ... There was no torture. Prison wardens are forbidden to physically abuse inmates.

Scott Ford

Scott's background and extensive knowledge of all forms of computer crime and abuse will be a great addition to our Midwest team. He is a highly- regarded member of the local business and forensic communities.

Deborah Pearlstein

Secretary Rumsfeld takes the extraordinary position in his brief that ordering torture was 'within the scope of his employment' as Secretary of Defense. Especially in light of recent finds that no one at senior levels has been held to account for gross acts of torture and abuse of detainees, this is a remarkable abdication of the responsibility of command.

James Rubin

Secretary Albright asked the State Department's senior human rights officer to undertake the mission to further develop the administration's understanding of the dimensions of the conflict in Kosovo and to emphasize U.S. support for proponents of democracy as well as victims of human rights abuse in the region.

Jeff Christian

One of the things about our game is that you have to prove yourself every day. The younger guys may give me a little respect because I've been there, but if you're terrible, they're going to abuse you.

Peyton Knight

One man's blight is another man's castle. Without proper restrictions and well-defined parameters, governments will exploit the blight loophole and continue to abuse eminent domain power.

Mickey Arthur

None of the team minds any form of abuse because it happens in any country...but we feel once it becomes a racist taunt then the boundaries are being overstepped.

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

Charles Spurgeon

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Charles Olson

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Dennis Prager

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

Elbert Hubbard

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Stephen Graham Jones

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Greg Panter

From our perspective the facts are it's a good year, but by no means a record flow.

Kenneth Frazier

If a retrial is scheduled we will be right back with the same facts.

William Williams

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

David Nicholls

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

James Altucher

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

Jaime Suchlicki

Only those who are doing something illegal should be worried about the U.S. government's actions.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Eugene Brezany

If they see illegal activity, of course, they're going to report it. But we are not law enforcement, and we don't want to be perceived as law enforcement.

Roger Wicker

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Frederic Bastiat

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

David Harvey

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

Albert Lin

They've got about six months before they won't have the monopoly position on EV-DO,

Emanuel Celler

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Rupert Murdoch

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

Steve Ballmer

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Lawrence Lessig

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

Sam Altman

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly, and then quickly expand.

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Michael Hein

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Philip Schiller

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

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.