Famous Quotes & Sayings

The reason you're seeing this happen is because this is the time ? before the document comes out ? that people can make their case, ... These orders know that after the document comes out they'll be accused of dissent.

There has obviously been a conspiracy between the accused and certain officials which needs to be probed.

Rick Scott

You have got to make sure there's due process for somebody that's accused of a crime. You've got make sure they're safe.

Those accused of crimes -- be it civilian or law enforcement officer -- have a right to a fair and independent evaluation of the evidence by a public prosecutor who will make a filing decision based solely on the evidence and not on public opinion.

We don't want to get rid of paper ballots no matter what we're accused of. Some people are adamant that they want to keep paper ballots. Having the system in place would allow them to do so and not use an electronic voting machine if they do not wish to.

Henry Hyde

We don't want to be accused of politicizing this ... but we will be doing a lot of planning and interviewing and whatever's necessary to have hearings after the election,

Sepp Blatter

We have been accused of all sorts of things, for example, in the fight against doping, when we were the ones who made headway first.

We have been accused of all sorts of things.

Vanna Bonta

When accused of being an unrealistic optimist, say the sun never stops shining.

To threaten people and to accuse a country because a newspaper has published some cartoons or some information that could be interpreted as offensive for one group or another is completely inappropriate.

Bharati Mukherjee

Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.

Robin Roberts

With Pete's book and admitting all the things that a lot of people didn't know he had done - they really believed he hadn't bet on baseball - I think that kind of upset a lot of people that were rooting hard for Pete, ... The fact that he did bet on it, and what he was accused of he did, didn't contribute much to his possibility of getting voted in.

Eleanor Catton

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.

Andrew Weil

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.

Clint Eastwood

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

Charles J. Shields

'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman.

Howard Finster

You know, I been accused - people call me crazy like they did Noah, you know. Some people think I'm insane, like, maybe a percentage like insane?

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

Billy Martin

We do not have evidence to accuse Congressman Gary Condit of Chandra's disappearance and, now, her death, but we do have reason to believe he knew a lot more about Chandra.

We get accused of having an all-star team by some other cities in the state, but that isn't the case. Even by pulling from all of these schools, we really only have enough boys for one team.

Alan Ruck

Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.

Bob Crow

No doubt we will once more be accused of disruption but ... the blame once again lies squarely with management trying to impose rather than negotiate.

Nobody has been accused and no proceedings have been opened nor are they about to be.

Phil better take notice. If he wants to try to replicate the Roberti campaign of 1994, he's up against a team that knows how to fight back. I've been accused of a lot of things, but not being willing to fight back isn't one of them.

Nobody likes to be accused of something as horrible as that.

Nobody could ever accuse Green of a last ditch campaign, he'll always run for something. But certainly it's a comeback effort.

Eula Biss

On the pro-vaccine side - and not everyone does this, but I saw it enough for it to make me really uncomfortable - is a tendency to accuse people who are wary of vaccination of being stupid and not understanding science.

Pontius Pilate

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

Pete Rose

I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.

Peter Jackson

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

We are required to tell the student what they are accused of doing, reveal the evidence against them, allow the student to tell their side of the story and make a decision.

People are actually losing comprehension of what's going on. People are coming because they have a crush A person has been accused of a crime, killing two people.

Maurice Gibb

People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about. If you listen to our records, you'll find that there's dance music. But there are also ballads like 'More Than A Woman.' And there are some very beautiful, undanceable songs, too.