Famous Quotes & Sayings

This crime should not be singled out from others. The defendants of this crime, who are normally law-abiding citizens, already face very severe penalties. Why not assess these costs, if they are going to be assessed at all, to other police calls which may include violent acts by a hardened criminal?

This budget may be the first sign that we're about to get a prime minister who acts on climate change instead of just talking about it. Many of these measures will make the difference if properly implemented.

They should have had acts that the young people can identify with. I'm not even feeling it. Maybe my mother is feeling it,

Ronnie Hawkins

They should never have to hire anybody from outside for big jobs in Canada. It's weird thinking, ... Keep the money in the country if you can. Canada has got the acts that can do the job in any vein.

They're the people that are likely to give random acts of kindness, like a hug. They don't get credit for that.

A lot of people are not aware that they could be at risk of heart disease until it's too late. This basically acts as a early warning system for people who can then change their lifestyles or habits down the road.

A lot of good acts feel like they should come through here. Whether they actually do or not isn't the point. It's that they feel they need to make a, well....

A lot of bands that end up getting, say, the major label deals ... there's already a good sense that they're a viable commodity. These are acts that are already in a position to be signed, and they doubtless would be signed with or without South by Southwest.

Joe King

Although seemingly criminal, these acts do not meet the necessary requirements for indictment.

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

Young people really live on the Internet, and a lot of these bands are being marketed on the Internet -- they're able to bypass the traditional methods. In some ways, these young pop acts are being marketed like indie rock bands because the bigger media tends to be more conservative and less open to change.

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

This is a new venture. (A judge says) even though it looks like a slot machine and acts like a slot machine, it's not really a slot machine.

They earn that trust and build it over a period of time. That starts building that partnership, the partnership being that the community acts as the eyes and ears of the community, so the police department depends on that.

Michael Chertoff

This practice acts as an enticement for additional border crossers, ... It's unacceptable.

There was lap dancing with a fair amount of cash floating around the floor with the dancers, leading quickly into sexual acts in a nature so explicit imagination wasn't necessary.

There were people sentenced before and after my client whose acts were far worse who didn't receive a fraction of what we did.

There were layers of reasons why we did the re-recordings, but one was that we could hand over our tracks and let new acts we rated do something interesting with them.

It was built to give native students a place to receive their education in a culturally appropriate place. It acts as a bridge connecting the campus and the surrounding native community.

It was a lot of businesses around the area that also had acts so they jumped from place to place so I think it helped business out a lot. One of the places last night, I could barely get through the door...it was just jam-packed.

Bruce Fein

He's living in a time warp. The great irony is Bush inherited the strongest presidency of anyone since Franklin Roosevelt, and Cheney acts as if he's still under the constraints of 1973 or 1974.

Believe me when I tell you if you're still doing this in ten years from now it won't be one of those acts you'll be doing this with. It just won't!

Every call we make regarding any story is a serious one. But anything of this nature is a difficult call. We have to be sensitive to the viewers and at the same time be responsible and present what are, in essence, horrific acts occurring.

A couple of years ago ... we didn't have any U.K. acts in the Top 200. That situation is beginning to rectify itself.

Street rallies are not allowed today to prevent any breach of peace. All acts on the streets that tend to anger and are divisive must be discouraged and people involved are advised to go home.

Some said it was horrible to get exclusives of any kind, that traditional retailers had broken these acts for years and this was the kind of thanks they got. But others said that when they were developing an act they probably would have done something like this.

Iris Chang

Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat

Some philosophers say that all work is full of faults and should be given up, while others say that acts of sacrifice, charity, and austerity should not be abandoned.

So the longer this goes, the more pleased the terrorists would be because it gives them the opportunity to intervene with acts of violence and, secondly, because they will claim it is an illustration of the inability of politicians in Iraq to come together.

Joe Lieberman

acts of one-sided diplomacy on the part of the Bush administration.

Acts of God. That doesn't mean they won't, but they're not required to.

Tony Ross

acts of compassion from our fellow Pennsylvanians are just extraordinary.

Actors, writers, singers, dancers, comedians, belly dancers with snakes, you name it, they've been here. My job is to listen to their ideas or watch them perform, and maybe help them reshape and refine their acts so that I can start calling producers and directors to help them get jobs.