Famous Quotes & Sayings

In some cases, you had detainees that had made some incriminating statements about other detainees, and about third parties back in their home countries. In others, detainees had made statements that could be taken by enemy forces as disloyal acts against them. In others, detainees indicated that they had cooperated with U.S. forces, which could be held against them by individuals in their home countries.

Alex Chilton

I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do.

In fact, there's a working cell phone that you can fasten onto your dog's collar and call him anytime that you want. It acts as a little speaker phone.

David Coe

I guess you could say I've always been country; maybe more so than a lot of the other acts you listen to today.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

Kyle Kinane

I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the whole family' acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they're scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They're more honest with the audience with who they are.

J. William Fulbright

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

Tom Glavine

He can issue all the apologies he wants. That's the easy thing to do. But we'll see if he means it by how he acts every day after that.

Stuart Green

Hazing is where bullying becomes most clear, or where it is most simply enacted, because you can really see the negative acts form a pattern and you can also see an imbalance of power.

He approved of the mass murder of Jews during national socialism. He approved of terror acts and he approved of the violent conversions of infidels to Islam.

Walid Jumblatt

If he acts like Saddam did, yes, we are heading to a situation similar to what happened in Iraq.

Jack Whitehall

I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

I am not opposed to all military activities, like in Hurricane Katrina and natural disasters like that, ... But the recruiting process, I think, can be dishonest and some of the violent acts in the military have not been addressed by the (mainstream) news. A lot of problems could be solved if (the military) started teaching tolerance and getting rid of stereotypes.

Robbie Robertson

I do remember thinking, 'This is a strange way to make a buck. Travel around the world and people boo you wherever you go,' ... Night after night you just know they're going to boo. Then a few years later you do it again, and everybody acts like they knew it was brilliant all along.

He's never committed any acts in the United States.

He's not like any other freshman I've seen come through here. He just doesn't make that many freshman mistakes. He acts like he's been here before.

Manmohan Singh

I condemn the cynical and premeditated attacks on innocent people. These are dastardly acts of terrorism aimed at the people of India,

I condemn the cowardly acts of the extremists and my message is simple: the violence must end and their tactics will not be successful.

Erich Fromm

By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts -- but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced; with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.

Jay Nixon

By preying on those who can least afford to lose their money, this operation is doing little more than stealing, ... These unscrupulous business practices must be stopped, and victims of these unfair and deceptive acts should be made whole.

Richard Whately

Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man

His acts were cowardly, your honor. Jason was a coward.

Brad Jacobs

Caffeine acts as a stimulant in our body. For many people, ingesting caffeine results in a boost of energy. However, when the caffeine wears off, people often feel more fatigued than prior to ingesting the coffee.

Edward Kennedy

Before the Senate acts on John Roberts' new nomination, we should know even more about his record, and we should know whom the president intends to propose to nominate as a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor.

Because the enforcement acts are ongoing, we're unable to provide further details.

John Ashcroft

Individuals who commit treasonous acts against the United States will be held fully accountable,

Mark Regev

If the PA acts like a pariah, then they can't be surprised if they're being treated like a pariah.

If proper procedure is followed, Sprint acts very quickly.

It's bad enough when an individual has data stolen from them by a virus, but a police force being the victim is a real cause for concern. This incident acts as a timely reminder that all organizations need to take computer security seriously. If you allow your employees to put sensitive company data onto their own home computers, you are running the risk that they will not be as well defended as the PCs within your business.

It says governments should take every effort to stop people inciting anyone to commit terrorist acts. It's to discourage all those people who incite others to commit terrorist acts . . . in every way possible.

It's about acts of giving, not just adoration. The children give the flowers.

It's very sad. It's very sad, ... At the very beginning I think this is a story about a man (trying to) carry on his life after he broke up with the woman he loves. And he tries to change. He tries to forget the past. He tries to live like a new man. He thinks he's changed entirely, he sees things, he acts differently, but deep down inside him I think he still lingers with the past and that's sad.