Famous Quotes & Sayings

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

Jeff Chapman

More and more Georgians are anxious about this kind of taking of property. I think more and more Georgians are going to demand that the government not be allowed to abuse their power, ... Simply put, government should be the umpire and not the player.

Craig Venter

My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.

Next to nothing is known about this process, but it could be of great importance to the well-being of the offspring. This is particularly relevant because of the alarming rate of child abuse and neglect.

Obviously, it is a heinous crime and my heart goes out to the family of the victim up in Boston. But he's the likely target. He was there that night, he is the one with the record. But it is important to note that he has no history whatsoever of any abuse against women, including sexual abuse or anything related to harassment.

Bill Johnson

Obviously, there are children who have been victims of abuse or neglect, so they've got a lot of emotional challenges.

ObsurferPro offers companies the appropriate intelligence through its outstanding monitoring and reporting capabilities to give administrators a view into how the Internet is being utilized throughout the organization to determine who is abusing Internet privileges. While most employers would prefer to give its employees the benefit of the doubt that they are all adhering to corporate policies and procedures, organizations would be penny-wise and pound-foolish in thinking that the ongoing Internet abuse issues in corporate America don't affect them.

I feel that's a total abuse of taxpayer funds.

If individuals are intent on cheating, they can be quite creative in their efforts. What they need to know is that we are working harder than ever before to ferret out dishonesty, waste, fraud, abuse and inefficiencies. We are going to come to work every day and do our very best to safeguard tax payer dollars and see that they are spent as they were meant to be.

I have consulted with (attorney) David Cornwell in the event there is any issue concerning Randy Moss and the NFL substance abuse policy. But as of this date, we have had no meeting with the medical director.

Judy Johnson

I don't know that we are ever going to eliminate abuse in our society. Our job is to do the best we can to support and protect individuals with disabilities.

I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person within the church. I do encourage any person who believes they have been a victim of abuse to come forward and to inform the police.

Alan Cumming

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

Edmund Burke

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Mike Rutherford

We have arrested several people over the last several years that had pistol permits or weapons in their possession when we arrested them for the abuse or the sexual assault.

Cotton Mather

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

Well, these photographs are out and what really remains to be seen is how the government will respond to them. Will the government take this opportunity to really do an independent investigation into why this abuse happened and who is ultimately responsible for it ?

Lincoln Steffens

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Cynthia Ozick

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

Cyril Connolly

Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

Alfred de Musset

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

I would say more important than having these big conversations with children about sex abuse would be every single day tell the child how much you love them, whatever happens to them even if they thought they were in trouble that you'll never hate them, never get them in trouble because they came to you.

John Mica

Juvenile drug abuse is a serious problem in both Volusia and Flagler counties, ... These important federal resources will help provide our youth with alternatives to illegal drug use.

Has this abuse had an impact on our war in Iraq? Definitely.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

Steve Stockman

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

Joe Girardi

He's a little bit behind, but we've got to make sure that we don't rush him. He's in a little different boat than all the other pitchers here, but we said all along that we weren't going to rush our pitchers. We're not going to abuse him. We're going to evaluate him later down the road.

Diana Williams

He should be sentenced for as many years as possible for the mental abuse he inflicted on me and my friend, ... I'm sure there are others out there who would like to see him locked up.

His mind started racing. His memories of all the sexual abuse he had incurred over his entire life came flooding back over him. He believed that what he was doing was right, that he had been ordained to do this.

Ned Yost

I think that pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. These guys are making so much money nowadays that you're trying to protect your investment and you don't want to abuse anybody out there, especially if you've got a good arm.

Under Missouri statute, abuse of a child is a class B felony which is punishable by a term of imprisonment between five and 15 years. The point we always make is that this charge against Ms. Hyatt is merely an accusation. As in all criminal cases, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Kris Draper

He was one of the last guys to get in town, ... It's going to be nice. We have a four-hour bus ride, and Hank's going to probably take the most abuse on the bus, and rightfully so. We're just happy to have him back. He's such a great kid and such a great hockey player. He's going to play a huge role for the Detroit Red Wings over the next four years for sure.

Bruce Bochy

He doesn't play golf or poker like most players. He loves the outdoors. One thing about Ryan, he takes excellent care of himself. He doesn't stay out late and abuse himself. His interests are different. I do think he'll have a good year. He knows what's at stake.