Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Roman Church has never erred, and, according to the scripture, never shall err.

The role was carved out for government backbenchers purely for Nationalist Party reasons, not to satisfy any constitutional and public need, as in the case of Cabinet ministers and parliamentary secretaries, who head the Executive according to the democratic separation of powers.

I've... used a very conservative approach. You only hear my own voice, a slight choral accompaniment and drums. Let's say that's the safest option according to certain Islamic schools of thought. I've made minimal use of musical instruments, and in some schools of thought in Islam musical instruments are disapproved of.

Rosalind Wiseman

You judge yourself and other parents according to perfect-parent myths.

Andrew White

You have a group of people in there who are possibly responsible for terrorist activities, according to the Israeli side, ... and at the same time you have many innocent civilians and religious people in there, and they're all mixed up together in a place which is designed for worship and not for living.

William Law

You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.

Within a minute and 15 seconds, according to our tapes, (the officers) had called in to say it was a toy gun and they cleared the call shortly thereafter,

Viktor Yushchenko

What happened today showed that Ukraine is able to conduct an honest privatization according to the law.

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

There's nervousness and people waiting maybe for another shoe to drop. It's not going according to (plan), most people had expected the market to be a little better. They expected a Santa Claus rally which was very muted this past year.

Bill Williams

There's not a way that you can prepare according to the subject matter. You have to learn that all the way through school. We pick the team in November and compete. What we have to practice is the buzzer system and the strategy.

The total value, in five days, of the coaches lost exceeds R22 million. The trains were running according to schedule and on time before the incident.

The trains were running according to schedule and on time before the incident.

Yasser Arafat

is more than realistic because according to the signed agreements ... our state should have been declared by 1998 or 1999.

Kevin McCall

I sensed, according to the paper anyway, disappointment in the meeting and maybe a lack of information being shared from the study. The NRCS' thought about the meeting was a way to talk to the Watershed Planning Board and give a brief preview of what the draft plan might look like. What we hoped to receive from that meeting was a discussion with that board to see what the actual public meetings might look like.

I've been here since 7 a.m. and I'll be here until 6 p.m., but it's already been eventful. The wreck happened at 8:32 (a.m.) according to my cell phone clock, and there have been a few other close calls.

Mark Sheppard

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

What that means is all God, no brake. We want the students to focus on living a Christian life daily all out. A life that is exciting, living according to his word.

Ken Auletta

We have to find a language to communicate with the folks who sign our checks to help them understand that they will not be able to build a valuable journalistic brand without good journalism, which is expensive. This creates a chasm between us that admittedly will be very hard to bridge ... Our job is not to give the public what they think they want because what they want changes or is wrong. Look at how it changed after 9/11. Before 9/11 the public was less interested, according to every survey, in Islam or international news. After 9/11, they asked, 'How come you didn't tell us more about Islam and what was going on?' What the public wants is more about Brad and Angelina.

We will not earn any more money from the charter of these three vessels to the government than we would have by operating them according to our post-Katrina plan. However, there is a possibility that we could earn a little bit less.

We are cautious, we are waiting for results, but it is clear according to reports coming from a lot of places that Preval has a comfortable gap.

We feel we are making concessions according to our first desires, but we are certainly excited that we seem to have a workable plan the city can agree to. Hopefully it meets with community approval.

We expect prices to fluctuate within a fairly narrow range according to local supply and demand, with property having to be accurately priced or it will not sell.

We expect markets to focus, as usual, on headline hiring and the jobless rate. Whether these figures should be judged according to the usual principles is less clear, however.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them

The Labor Department noted that first time claims were down to 271,000, some of the lowest numbers since 2000. New housing starts fell 8.9% in December according to the Commerce Department and new building permits also dropped by 4.4%.

Their schools are closed or destroyed, and there is no way at this time to obtain a transcript to verify their eligibility according to our rules.

Azita Ghanizada

In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined to raise my two sisters and me according to Afghan traditions.

I'm not a criminologist. Criminologists actually hate what we do, ranking cities according to crime rates. Crime is the one area where, for whatever reason, you're not supposed to rank things, ... I think that if people can take anything from this research, they can see a ranking like Richmond's as a huge red flag.

John Roberts

I know there are people of strongly held views on both sides of the issue ... And I know that the responsibility of a judge confronting this issue is to decide the case according to the rule of law consistent with the precedents, not to take sides in the dispute as a matter of policy, but to decide it according to the law.

It's tough to win when you don't score. I don't think this was a lack of chances. According to our statistics, we had 18 scoring chances. That's a pretty decent amount. The guys we count on to score had chances. We just didn't finish.

Michael Servetus

Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.

Guru Nanak

Then having caused the crimes, which they committed by their several actions, to be proclaimed in accordance with the facts, the king shall duly punish them according to their strength and their crimes.