Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Trevi

Even my record company, who earned millions of dollars with me, abandoned me. They took my records out of the stores. The gay community continued singing my songs. The transvestites continued imitating me. Against all odds, I love them. . . . They support me and take care of me.

Every day, bureaus hear from consumers who invested in what they thought were solid and sure money-makers. They abandoned their common sense and succumbed to enticing promotions that were short on details but full of dollar signs.

For a long time, the entire nation depended on coal, limestone, iron ore and steel from Pennsylvania. It helped win the Revolutionary War, it built railroads that opened the West and rebuilt Europe after two world wars. Our take on this is that this is not Pennsylvania's abandoned mine problem, it's America's problem.

Michael Brown

Government does have the right to take properties under eminent domain with caution and responsibility. In this case the tenant had gone out of business and abandoned the property. It is not right for them to get money because they breached the lease.

I felt so bad because this is my team and it looks like I abandoned them. I made a bad choice.

Jim McCrery

I can assure you that the House Ways and Means Committee has not abandoned trying to extend the dividend tax cut and the capital gains tax cut. We think that is critical. We have not given up on that," ()

Scott Ritter

I am assisting United States veterans, heroes. People who put on our uniform, defended our country in time of war, who have been abandoned by their government.

I do not believe that anyone can recall the last time a complaint prevailed under Section 18. It has long been abandoned as a resource.

The invasion of Iraq was not justified because Saddam had already abandoned weapons of mass destruction.

The cross-border train service has not been abandoned altogether but there are still deliberations at government-to-government level. We expect to launch the service soon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Jiang Zemin

The Cold War mentality must be abandoned once and for all, ... And a new security concept based on mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and cooperation should be established.

Francois Fenelon

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

George Lucas

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

They've really abandoned the previous argument, and what's important is that this new brief is clear and understandable and consistent with the antidiscrimination policy that the California Medical Association and Kaiser Permanente have had for a long time.

Oswald Chambers

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

The Garden Club abandoned the process. They cut us out of the process, and the flagpole went into the ground.

The county was also organized in New England, but took on chiefly judicial and military functions, and speedily abandoned local administration.

Carol Burnett

My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.