Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Friedrich

Executives at these companies are often isolated from the horrors of what the farm animals have to endure. The resolutions will raise the issue because they are printed in the companies' proxy statements and mailed to the shareholders. This way, our campaign moves into an actual agenda, and companies will have to address it and argue their case.

Marcus Aurelius

Execute every act of life as though it were thy last

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

David Johnson

Evidence of this active cycle was demonstrated this year as the Atlantic Basin produced the equivalent of more than two entire hurricane seasons over the course of one.

Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

George Bernard Shaw

Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.

Liv Tyler

Armageddon was not an acting experience. That's why I was depressed. It was about the effects and not about the performances. I had the really rough part of being the emotional person who's like, you know, upset all the time.

Arresting a few leaders and activists is not going to stop us from holding the protest rally. Thousands of people will pour out into the streets (Saturday).

Mark Regev

Arresting a few activists in a particular atrocity is simply not enough. This group has to be thoroughly disarmed. If not, they will continue to wreak havoc, murdering innocent civilians and killing the chance for peace.

Eduardo Ermita

arrest all persons violating the laws of the land as well as ordinances on the proper conduct of mass actions and demonstrations.

Apathy is a cop-out. Students are active and do want to make a difference. The real way to bring them in is by making a visible presence on campus. All students can make a difference.

Annabeth Gish

A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.

Richard E. Grant

Apart from a cure for the diseases that plague us, an end to wars and other lofty ideals, I plan to direct a film I have written, but not act in it.

The kids told the deputy that they were in fact planning to plant some of these bombs at the school. They were planning to disrupt school activities at the end of the year. They were not targeting an individual.

Francis Bacon

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.

The lads have reacted positively to the new regime and hopefully we will see positive results emerging from the sessions. We are keen to get back into action and get the disappointment of last Saturday out of our systems.

The last couple of days, we've been working on being more active on defense. The girls were like, 'OK, let's roll.' So I was very pleased with what I saw out there tonight.

The key to profitability is experience and continued discipline. If one of your line items starts to head in the wrong direction, you know it quickly, because you watch it closely and take action to correct the problem.

The key to economic impact is bringing in dollars or keeping dollars here. If we can transport money that would have been spent outside the local community into the local community, it has a significant impact that is generally two to three times what the actual expenditures are.

The key to all of this will be the communication with the pitching coaches of the teams involved. We want the coaches to know our plans so they can send their pitchers to us with an understanding of how we plan to schedule workouts and assignments. This will be a coordinated effort with a great deal of communication before and during the actual competition.

The key thing that I can't answer is will consumers act appropriately. If they decide to rush the system, it can't handle it even in the best of times.

The Kurds are looking for a way to say: 'We played the game, we acted in good faith, it's not working, we'll set up our separate country,'

The knowledge sacrifice is superior to any material sacrifice, O Arjuna. Because, all actions in their entirety culminate in knowledge.

The intent is to hire an individual who can both foster connections with the existing research in engineering and life sciences at Princeton as well as start new research activities and grow in this area.

The intention of the person or persons that threw the water balloon was probably a practical joke type thing but as you can tell it did cause some damage. . . . It's quite concerning to us that this type of activity resulted in people from Washington state not having a very good experience in our neck of the woods.

The judge, her honor, up until now, has done her job. She has done it well. I just hope that the jury will decide and act in accordance with their conscience.

The Joint Finance Appropriation Committee for the state of Idaho considered a governor's request for $107,000 which would have funded two positions within a newly created office for Native Americans in the State Department of Education. What those people would do is coordinate educational activities for Indian students in Idaho, and hopefully assist in addressing some of the issues in regards to our students.

Dick Cheney

The jobs and growth proposals the president announced on Tuesday constitute a focused plan to increase capital formation, to encourage consumer spending, to promote small business growth, boost confidence in our markets and give critical help to our unemployed citizens, ... We urge Congress to act swiftly to pass this package.

The large skew indicates that the market is bracing for short-term volatility in Harley Davidson ahead of its earnings report, and the defensive put activity seems to suggest that some traders are concerned that the volatile move might be to the downside.

The landowners said the bears were acting aggressively. They weren't prosecuted and after a wildlife officer talked to them about bear behavior, they were repentant.

The last thing I would think a legislator would want to do would be to let the general public feel that somehow if we don't like what courts do or we don't like the way courts interpret the Constitution, we can overrule it by acting like a 3-year-old and taking our marbles and going somewhere else.

William Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Jimmy Buffett

The message of this movie is not only that our kids are smarter than adults, but it's our world that they're going to inherit, and it's great to see activism at that early age.