Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Tabucchi

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

Arthur Eddington

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

ASAP Rocky

I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y'know what I mean?

Brian Billick

The rationale is that the individuals involved feel bad today and are punishing themselves. Believe me, when the league fines them, it will be substantial, ... If I thought an internal sanction, a monetary sanction against them, would suffice or help, I'd do it in a New York second. My experience is it does not. If they are not remorseful on their own -- regardless of whether the league fines them a penny, or whether they fine them hundreds of thousands of dollars -- if they don't internalize the culpability, then we're no better than we were yesterday.

The Raptors are 2-0 against us. The Hawks are 3-0 against us. We lost to Charlotte by 35. I don't know what it is against teams that don't have the best record, but we don't do well against them. That says something really bad about our team that we're going to have to figure out.

There is many reasons that men could choose to attend: to be entertained, the show has parts that are enormously funny, to show their support for ending violence against women, to bond with female friends or girlfriends; to relax and learn a little about the funny, scary, bizarre and wondrous parts of the female experience.

There is little prospect of receiving any significant payments against the fees outstanding.

There is increasing scope for the dollar to come under pressure. Once again, we see structural issues starting to work against the dollar.

Volvo's most sincere gratitude goes out to the Volvo for life Awards judges, who time and time again come together to select the year's greatest hometown heroes. They are an inspiring group of individuals making an incredible impact on the world.

Brian White

Upper Arlington is the real deal. They have a strong offense. They're only getting better as the season goes on. They're coming off a win against Thomas Worthington, which is supposed to be much-improved, and they blew them out. We know that they are going to come into this game with a lot of confidence. They lost to us the last two years in a row, and I know that they are going to be highly motivated.

Upon this day I decree I am the master of my destiny. No more loathing against the light, no more embracing of the night. From this day you will see a man freed from misery.

Up front they can play with an extremely large line or a smaller, quicker line. I expect a smaller line against us. If they take the large line and bull rush us we could struggle. They may change it up.

Lee Miller

Walter told me as long as I kept scoring goals and kept up my level of performance I had nothing to worry about. Fortunately I managed to score a couple of goals against Motherwell last weekend and another one against Inverness on Sunday so that was a decent response.

We played well tonight against a very good hockey team. We didn't give up a heck of a lot.

Steve Bruce

We played well there last year and we were only a few minutes away from beating them. But they are a fantastic outfit and team and are setting the standards for everyone, so it's an uphill job, but one you look forward to. You love to play against the best and at the moment Chelsea certainly is that.

Kailash Satyarthi

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.

Wendell Willkie

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

Warren Farrell

We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

Dennis C. Blair

I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.

Stephane Hessel

As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law.

Damien Hirst

It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.

Daniel Suarez

I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.

Daria Werbowy

I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

Kim Gordon

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Kim Cattrall

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

Kim Cattrall

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

Barbara Kingsolver

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Ben Shapiro

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.