Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pam Grier

I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.

Mary Beard

It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it—it’s the fact that you are saying it.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

Margaret Thatcher

Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

Mark Twain

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

Muqtada al Sadr

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

Julian Assange

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

There's an abundance of linebackers in this draft. There are a number of good first-day linebackers.

At a time when many New York small businesses are indeed still recovering from the disruptions caused by the attacks of Sept. 11th, these reports of abuse of the STAR program and the profligate use of scarce government resources are indeed inexcusable,

Richard Harris

Abu Dhabi's inaugural Mini and Youth tournament will be played at the same venue on November 17 and 18.

Abu Ali intends to plead not guilty to all of these charges. He expects to have a fair trial at which he will be vindicated.

Adam Braun

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

Ravi Zacharias

Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.

Sinead O'Connor

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

Michael Moore

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

John Milton

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

Miguel de Cervantes

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

Nick Clegg

[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy

John Quincy Adams

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

Plautus

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Michael Connelly

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

Michael J. Fox

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Ted Cruz

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

Michael Stipe

Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.

Joe Klein

If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.

It has changed a lot. They were not as abundant as they are now. I think what happened is everybody realized, if you are going to be competitive at the varsity level, you have to do what they are doing. If they have a little kids program, then we have to have one, too. It is kind of one of those survival things.

Bud Selig

I realized that baseball could expand the fulfillment of its social responsibility and help lead the fight against the abuse of steroids among our youth.

By looking at different regions of soils and reflection of ultraviolet ... we can gauge the distribution and abundance of oxygen in the soils.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

The committee has received information which suggests that the campaign finance abuse memos may contain allegations of criminal wrongdoing by the president. The committee is duty-bound to investigate that information.

Neale Donald Walsch

True abundance has nothing to do with what I am having, but everything to do with what I am being.

Lauryn Hill

In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.