Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Shifter

She saw the problem, acted well and wisely, and cleaned up the mess. It repairs relations with key countries like Brazil and puts the United States in a much better position to play a leadership role going forward.

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.

We are one of the few places that have zoning in place. The city acted even before the legislature changed the law. I think council and staff saw the very likely possibility that tattooing would be allowed in South Carolina and wanted to be prepared and wanted to have something in place if and when it passed. There's no reason to wait until the last minute if the train is coming down the tracks.

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.

Wentworth Miller

I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.

Bill Hader

The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'

John C. Calhoun

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.

Rand Paul

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

David Hare

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.

Natalie Cole

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.

Byron Scott

We didn't play like we wanted to win. We came out in the third quarter and acted like we were up 20. We blew it, that's the bottom line.

Gabriel Byrne

I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

Allison Tolman

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

Otto Preminger

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

The question in my mind is whether the civil rights community acted fast enough, ... Here we are at the deadline, and how many black people know what we know about his record? It doesnt put us in a mobilization mode. And this is a war.

Todd Park

Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.

Doc Rivers

I thought we looked at the scoreboard and acted like we may be able to beat the Miami Heat. But I don't know if we, at the end, believed we could beat them.

Andrea Arnold

Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.

We will hold a patient who says they want to harm themselves or someone else or has already acted on it. We don't feel comfortable sending them home, because we can't follow up. Usually, though, a family member will get involved within two days.

Peter Phillips

We will have people in the Caribbean following their respective teams from Asia, we will have Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, Sri Lankans, Australians, Zimbabweans., ... And in many of the states there are conflicts which have taken on a terrorist form, and so there is always the potential that we in the Caribbean could become the stage on which other conflicts get acted out.

When I went down there, him and my dad had a great time, they acted like they knew each other forever, ... He's a great guy.

Tom Ridge

We had specific information that needed to be acted upon relative to the Air France flights.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

We have seen repeated sightings of people wandering around the airport(s) unauthorized, people that have not gone through the proper security check and the fact that at regional airports there are no security checks at all, ... The government should have acted much earlier.

Erich Fromm

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue

Erich Fromm

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as ""moral indignation,"" which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue

The past 12 months have been the most difficult and challenging period that Sanctuary has ever had. As a result, we have had to make some fundamental changes and difficult decisions, but it was essential to make them and we have acted quickly to do so.

The particular bank involved here has on prior occasions been caught in the same position as the unwitting intermediary, ... and it has been required by American courts under penalty of very large fines to identify who the inside trader was, who it acted for and that individual was criminally prosecuted.

Matt Murphy

The players were disappointed that students from both schools acted the way they did. It's unfortunate the result of the game was lost because of what happened. Nothing happened on the floor between Carmel and Mahopac.

Spencer Abraham

We do have a lot of energy security issues that go to the critical energy infrastructure and the needs that we have in order to make sure we can take certain kinds of steps that are required now that have to be acted on, ... And I would be very disappointed if they couldn't get acted on in the balance of the session so I am hopeful we can find a way.

Dan Millman

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

Huston Smith

I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.