Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Mineau

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions. The coalition believes it is confusing and unethical to restrict citizens to one vote on two opposing issues, which this amendment would have done.

Michael Chertoff

Searching Jane and Mary Doe for evidence beyond the scope of the warrant and without probable cause violated their clearly established 4th Amendment rights,

Patrick Buchanan

Sen. Dole can avoid this fight if he simply stands up and says, 'Listen, I ran as a pro-life candidate. I'm committed to Ronald Reagan's plank in that platform. I do not want a battle on the convention floor. If there is a battle, I will stand with those who stand with the human life amendment and if necessary, I will speak on its behalf,

Susan Collins

Senator Graham's amendment complements Senator McCain's amendment. At the same time, his amendment prevents detainees who are not U.S. citizens from filing habeas corpus lawsuits in federal courts.

Timothy Karr

Network neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet. Net neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online - and the public demands Congress not dismantle it.

Sam Brownback

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly, ... The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Donna Mutzenard

More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pay them a living wage to actually buy a home and live in our community.

David Buckel

New Jersey is a unique state nationally when it comes to this issue. That became very clear with a governor's race in which candidates on both sides opposed an amendment to the state constitution that would limit marriage to a man and a woman.

Jessi Klein

If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.

Kevin Mitnick

If hackers, if anyone committing a criminal act, wants to reduce their risk, they obviously don't involve anybody else. The greater the circle of people that know what you're doing, the higher the risk.

Jim McKenna

We're not defaming AOL or the corporation or anybody that does business with them, ... We are asking them politely to stop. And we're just doing it in a creative way.

Kevin Garnett

We're not consistent for 48 minutes in what we're doing, and it's our fault. We can't blame Case. We can't blame anybody but ourselves, starting with me.

Rick Stansbury

LSU is the team to beat in the entire SEC, not just in the West. ... As long as they stay healthy and avoid an injury, they're as good as anybody around.

Oliver Thomas

Let me assure you, there isn't anybody walking up and down my sidewalk these days,

Scott Brown

Lower interest rates aren't going to make anybody go out and buy new capital equipment right away. And a lot of businesses are sort of frozen because of the attacks.

H. Hunt

Lest anybody think people out here don't care. We want to show them they do care.

Parri Munsell

Many households already have a Web mail client. Anybody can purchase it, you no longer need a student or a teacher in the household and you can install it on three machines. The price remains $149.

Paul Davis

Many times they'll turn off their lights and pull out of the parking lot at a high rate of speed, totally disregarding safety for anybody else,

Richard Rogers

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.

Kevin Mitnick

I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.

Susie Gardner

LSU is known for their offense, but they play very good defense. Unfortunately, we've started the last four or five games like we did today.

Bill Buff

Major bottlenecks ... have grown by 40 percent -- up from 167 bottlenecks to 233 bottlenecks over the past five years.

Shaun Alexander

Mack was a 6-foot-4 wide receiver until we moved him to fullback. After five years, he was down to 6 feet. I think he's like 5-foot-8 by now.

Arnie Ball

Lewis is a young team, mostly freshmen. We know they're inexperienced, so we can't look past them. Loyola has five of their seven starters back. They're a good team, no question.

Dan Winzenried

Leah was right there with them. Leah was happy with her time. We are still looking at going under five (minutes) this year. The two mile is more her race.

Chris Schultz

Sean was a little snake-bit in the regular season. He had a lot of chances, but he only had four or five goals.

Jeff Fettig

Sears owns the Kenmore brand. We're one of at least five different manufacturers in a process that they manage. What we manufacture for them today we may not manufacture tomorrow.

Kristin Cast

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Sathya Baba

Life is, Loving - Listening - Lifting - Learning - Living

Kevin Jones

Let this be a learning lesson. Let?s pick up the pieces. Hopefully, other teens will not make the same mistake.

Robin Wright

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

David Bass

Learning is like weightlifting. No burn, no learn.

Boris Vallejo

Learning and getting better with each portrait is what I strive for,

Eric Kandel

Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

John Burns

My 90-year-old mother has used a similar voting system in Austin, Texas, and she hasn't had a problem in learning how to vote with it.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Mike Eggl

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Charles Spurgeon

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Dennis Prager

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Democritus

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Denis Diderot

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Edgar Allan Poe

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

Edgar Allan Poe

And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Jake Shulaw

Lance is one of the smartest wrestlers I've ever had.

Melvin Ely

Basically, they're going to get caught. They aren't the smartest criminals.

Ashton Kutcher

It was the smartest thing I've ever done,

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,