Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

This is the first experiment to show that chimps don't share the same concern for the welfare of others as do humans, who routinely donate blood ... volunteer for military duty and perform other acts that benefit perfect strangers,

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.

For the past six months, Rand has been claiming that the sexual acts were consensual. He has now finally admitted that he threatened her and forced her to do these things.

For probably the first time in American history, civilians are asked to make no sacrifices in a time of war. We don't have a draft. There is no gas rationing the way there was in World War II. There is no increase in taxes; we get tax cuts instead. These acts are small ways of showing some recognition, because we're not doing it any other way.

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

The jail acts as a roof over their head and they feed them, but it's not cushy. They are processed, but they're not incarcerated. It's just simply a holding space.

Thomas Jefferson

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others.

Michael Ignatieff

The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

The live business is competing with itself because too many acts are out there at the same time. For (Clear Channel), it's critical that acts play in that time period.

William Wordsworth

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is the role of Congress to debate and authorize this before the President acts precipitously.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

All of the shows we are offering this semester appeal to many different kinds of audiences. These are all acts the students have been asking for and we have created a good balance with some larger events and some smaller ones.

Robert Axelrod

The evidence of the physical acts are quite overwhelming. But there are mitigating factors. He brainwashed her.

The entire region could benefit from this. Not just Pennsylvania, but there would be more people staying (at hotels in) New Jersey and Delaware. If this region acts together, it would be an incredible thing.