Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matisyahu

What is it to keep kosher? Is it eating kosher potato chips? Kosher is a bigger idea. I think it's about being healthy. But according to some people, it's about not eating this food because it's forbidden by the Jewish law. My view of the halachah changed a little bit. The laws are there hopefully to be a tool.

We make residence hall assignments according to our students' preferences, and in recent years the number of students expressing a preference for all-women's housing has decreased to less than 200, ... The vast majority of incoming students want to live on campus in a coed residence hall.

We must continue to follow the policy of being both strict and lenient according to the actual situation of the cases, and show leniency to the convicts who only committed minor offences or merited milder punishment and even exemption of punishment.

We make festivals according to the films that are out there now. We've tried to do a balanced selection of interesting films responding to a great variety of tastes.

John Updike

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

Chris Long

I thought we might get a little higher seed. We're the 16th best team in the country according to the college coaches. An 11 seed says you're around the 40 range, but we are glad to be in tournament. We are excited about playing Saturday. The way to get respect is to win.

Kelly Lynch

I think we're exploring this idea of the end of the American Empire, according to Hunter S. Thompson, and a lot of other things.

He won't be talking according to what others want to hear.

He was trying to circle around and, in so doing, according to witnesses, the plane dropped rather quickly below the clouds and crashed into the storage units.

He will be in grave danger as long as he remains in the country. The fundamentalists will seek to kill him regardless of what the courts say. He is an apostate and must be killed according to Islamic law.

Jeff Zucker

He has plans of going onto a Division 1-A college on a football scholarship. Even though he is only a junior, a lot of schools have expressed an interest in him. He is also an excellent student, according to what I have learned,

He enforced Missouri's Brady bill, its gun registration bill, even though he wasn't crazy about the law. And with respect to abortion, he rendered opinions as attorney general that were contrary to his personal beliefs but which upheld Missouri law and were in accord with, in fact, the pro-choice position at that time, because it was the law,

He not only got an acting fee and participation in the gross, but he got a big hunk of the licensing and merchandising, which will net him, according to Variety, about $100 million.

From the headlines, it's clear that the Chinese will pursue their own policy. They're going to resist international pressure and will modify their currency regime according to their own schedule.

For, though every man has sin in him seminally, yet there are some sins which by nature he is more inclined to than others, according to his constitution.

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? / For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

Fortunately, it won't affect Camp's career stats. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the $2 million will go down in the books as unearned.

Emo Philips

I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, "If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference.

Ronda Rousey

I go mainly by the Dolce diet. It is a little hard to describe: it's not really a diet but more of a lifestyle. I eat throughout the day; I have three meals and two snacks, and it changes according to what I need at the time.

If we take it according to the way the evidence was presented, that was about the twelfth of 78 witnesses, so obviously there is a long deliberation process going ... The jury is taking their job as seriously as the police and lawyers did.

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor; if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.

If the current population growth in Ethiopia continues, according to recent figures, by 2050 there will be more than 170 million people.

Joseph Goebbels

If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.

If the involved service members are found guilty of misconduct, they will be punished according to U.S. military law,

If we have congestion, it increases travel times and costs more to deliver goods and services. According to the state's own numbers, we already have the roadways with the highest fatality rates.

Laisenia Qarase

If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law,

If things go according to schedule and we have good weather to work, we could be finished with the entire project by 2008.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

David A. Bednar

The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.

Charles V

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

Homaro Cantu

According to the supermarkets, there is no such thing as 'out of season.' Berries in the middle of February? Why not? Seafood flown in from Japan? Sure. While it all adds up to appetizing and varied meals throughout the year, regardless of the weather, it comes with a price tag - both ethical and financial.

Henry Petroski

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

Barton Gellman

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.