Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dingell

We want to see to it that we still have medical decisions being made in favor of and on behalf of the patients, ... This is to see to it that the HMOs are treated the same as anybody else, not given preferential and reverential treatment. That's what the Norwood amendment does.

John Carlson

We are seeing a perfect example of how campaign finance laws are regulating the First Amendment out of existence. The idea that I cannot talk about Initiative 912 in the last two and a half weeks of the campaign, which are the most pivotal, is just outrageous.

Ann Beeson

There are considerable First Amendment issues involved in such a move.

Yasmin Sewell

We stock the world's best jeans, including James and Sass & Bide. Sass & Bide jeans are basic and super-comfortable, but the 18th Amendment jeans have just that little bit more detail; they are slightly more refined. Customers love them.

Niger Innis

The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.

Peter Murphy

What this bill would do is a poison pill amendment to require the school board to approve the existence of a new charter school going forward. So this idea that this is some kind of compromise measure, that it lifts the cap but provides the oversight, is completely misleading. In fact, it's designed to pretend to lift the cap, but in fact, squash any new opportunity going forward.

Jim Peterson

We would welcome the decision to repeal the Byrd amendment. But we strongly maintain that the Byrd amendment should be eliminated immediately. The WTO ruling was clear.

Pat Toomey

Unless and until they actually manage to repeal the First Amendment itself, we are going to find a way to give voice to the tens of thousands of people who share our views and want to have a voice in the political process.

Ritchie McKay

Very emphatically, I never, ever in my 18 years of coaching have forced a young man or demanded or made it mandatory for a young man to attend church, ... I appreciate the ACLU, but to not listen to my bosses and to file a complaint, maybe its mission is to be controversial. Obviously I know the difference between making it mandatory and personal convictions and what the First Amendment says.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Galit Chait

We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Camille Paglia

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

C. L. R. James

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

George Hecht

We value this historic property so much and we don't want to tear up more of it than we have to.

Ken Mehlman

We are at a very historic moment in terms of the party, but also our community.

Ai Weiwei

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Derek Bailey

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Denzel Washington

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Chet Williamson

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Charles Rangel

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

Blanka Vlasic

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

Edith Wharton

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

David Hockney

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

Edward Furlong

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

Kevin Browne

We were a lot better tonight. We were in a lot better shape than they were. They were tiring. We were able to take it to them.

Charles Dickens

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

bell hooks

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Desiderius Erasmus

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.