Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michell Howard

We started getting inquiries from Europe as soon as the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

James Monroe

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can't go to stocks.

I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.

Michelle Rodriguez

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

Michael Shannon

The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you'd see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I'm walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there.

Iain Banks

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Hubertus Andrae

The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life.

Chris Edwards

The power of a website comes from the people using it, not the people making it.

Jeff Cohen

The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.

Courtney Pratt

The people who vote on this are the bondholders and they are not supporting this at this stage.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Aristotle

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

Abraham Lincoln

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.