Famous Quotes & Sayings

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

Anton Balasingham

On our part we have pledged that there will be no acts of violence. At the same time we want the government of Sri Lanka to ensure there shouldn't be any violence perpetrated against innocent civilians and the LTTE.

Mark Foley

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring

Peter Pace

I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by a saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way.

We have had a string of acts that have been very successful domestically, and that success is traveling quite well.

Leo Ornstein

Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.

Hooman Majd

Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.

We are quite disappointed at the unprofessional and dangerous acts of the ships. The company is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ships' operators because they not only brought danger to Odyssey, but to their own ships. The company will file a lawsuit against the crew members too since they violated a lot of maritime affairs rules.

I think every person is their own person to an extent, but I think a lot of my opinions are shared in my family. Very often I'll bounce things off them. My family often acts as a conscience to me, and I think I represent a lot of the things in my family. I just happen to be the one that went in this direction.

Our immediate concern is that if the explosives did fall into the wrong hands they could be used to commit terrorist acts and some of the bombings that we've seen.

Asif Ali Zardari

Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.

that defined torture and showed that these acts were not torture and that these prisoners were not subject to the Geneva Conventions.

My officers will be under strict orders to arrest any person who would seek to compromise public safety or who engages in acts of disorder aimed at affecting the response of the emergency services.

Nasty. It looks just like a fastball, then it's in on you. He looked outstanding. He looked scary, even after surgery. You can see how he feels by the way he acts. When you feel bad, you don't even feel like talking to anybody. He acts like he's good now.

Learned Hand

My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life; if I were to acquaint myself with the matters on which it ought really to depend, if I were to try to get a judgment on which I was willing to risk affairs of even the smallest moment, I should be doing nothing else, and that seems a fatuous conclusion to a fatuous undertaking.

Rachel Simmons

Many girls intentionally perpetrate acts of aggression that go unseen by parents and teachers. Because they are so skilled at being subtle, girls can communicate a thousand words without saying anything. By rolling their eyes or turning their back on another girl, they can shut that other person out without being noticed by anyone else - even a concerned parent or teacher.

The experience of seeing top blues artists at a very low price, cheaper than some cover charges to other local blues clubs is great. Many of these acts play in other cities for $20 per ticket.

Angela Carter

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

Anthony de Mello

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

White people and black people were responding to the film even before the Oscar and now even more. It's because the film is about experiences of life. It's like mythology. It's a story of redemption, how a person responds, how a community acts towards violence.

Todd Barry

Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons.

Richard Chamberlain

What is bravery? I think it's largely when one acts spontaneously before weighing the possibilities of self-injury.

George Berkeley

Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The four first acts already past, / A fifth shall close the drama with the day: / Time's noblest offspring is the last.

We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicalism and new acts of terrorism.

David Paulson

What you're looking for there is whether the operator clearly understood the nature and quality of his acts and that they were likely to result in great bodily injury, ... Was he aware of the likely consequences of his actions?

Eric Whitacre

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

Kaki King

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

Karen Abbott

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

We want the best and brightest students. I have a very inclusive definition of best and brightest. Of course that includes ACTs and test scores. But it also includes the character prospective students display. That shows there's a place for them at the university.

There is compelling evidence suggesting that U.S. personnel have committed acts against detainees amounting to torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.

Samuel Smiles

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Dannii Minogue

The only pop acts still here from when I was around are Kylie and Natalie Imbruglia.