Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Sharpton

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

Chellie Pingree

During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

Clare Balding

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.

Doc Hastings

I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.

Nick Rhodes

With a lot of the new music that's around and the acts that have actually cited us as being influences... I wouldn't be so arrogant as to take somebody's record and say, "I think they've taken that from what we've done," but definitely I like the sound of a lot of things out there, and they're in an area in which I enjoy making music myself.

Bill Condon

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

Brendan Myers

The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'

William Blake

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Ayad Allawi

The government's position is clear and specific to ending armed manifestations, stopping acts of sabotage and making the armed men leave Najaf and the mosque,

Adam McKay

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.

Confucius

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

The governor believes deeply in UMDNJ, its people and its mission. And he supports the monitor's efforts to root out and clean up any and all acts of wrongdoing at this great institution.

Antony Gormley

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

When you go to nano-sized dimensions, matter acts differently.

Ruth Reichl

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

We know that our guests love seeing their favorite acts perform live and we feel it really enhances the gaming, and overall resort, experience.

We wait 45 hours to rescue miners and it's too late, but the Legislature under the prodding of our governor acts in eight hours.

Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us,

Craig Ferguson

We wanted something different this year. We're still keeping the musicianship, as opposed to it being a jam band fest. There's also a lot more standard bluegrass acts and we've never had an act like Bobby McFerrin before. You don't have to be a bluegrass artist - you just have to be a great artist to fit in at Telluride.

To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

Wrestling is just something David does well, but it does not consume him. David thinks and acts with the team concept and has an agenda for the team, not for self. Because he took his record to several of the toughest tournaments in the country and won, I believe he is the best four-year undefeated wrestler to come out of Florida.

Cesare Beccaria

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

The ordinary civilians who risked their lives -- and thousands lost their lives in countless acts of heroism that we'll never know about -- somehow it's important that the public be reminded of that,

We will probably focus on some of the Southern rock throughout and then focus on memorabilia from some of the acts we've booked, too. One of the things that we will be doing is training our team members on the history of those pieces so they can explain to customers what some of it means.

We will probably focus on some of the Southern rock musicians throughout. And then focus on some of the acts too.

Those acts could be abstaining from meat on some other day of the week or volunteering or making a donation to help the needy.

we also need to differentiate between acts of terrorism, such as what happened in the United States, and acts of struggle to liberate a land, which is the case of the Palestinian uprising.

Alexander Lowen

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

John Ashcroft

We will find the people responsible for these cowardly acts and justice will be done,

John Ashcroft

We will expend every effort and devote all the necessary resources to bring the people responsible for these acts -- these crimes -- to justice,