Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Kennedy

Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.

Frank Miller

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.

Camille Paglia

The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

Chris Van Hollen

In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

Robin Morgan

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Robert Reich

Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.

Publilius Syrus

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Polly Toynbee

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Philip Zimbardo

There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.

Philip Yancey

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.

Portia de Rossi

Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Nostradamus

The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish.

Gore Vidal

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

Corbin Bernsen

A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.

Paul Haggis

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

Patti Stanger

Men like to provide for women and their families. It's in their DNA. I'm obviously no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, 'I want to provide and hunt.' When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it's going against nature. I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong, I'm just saying that it can feel off.

Paul Auster

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process.

Paul Stanley

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

Peter Singer

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

Craig Dawson

We played well in spots, but in other areas we did not play as well as Friday's match against Brown. We may have left too much on the court.

We played well. If we'd played that well all year, we'd only have one or two losses. That was a very good team. The Ocala Forest coach said if we played like that against them, we'd have beaten them by 25.

We played wellI can't fault the determinationbut we couldn't finish. Fortunately the determination carried over to Saturday and we deserved our win against American Falls.

We played well even though the results were quite expected. I thought the seamers bowled particularly well. But we have a lot of cricket coming up against better opposition, so we need to wait and see whether there are any question marks against us.

We played well enough to win. The girls came out flat, but they didn't quit and made it through. It was a tough match. South Knox has improved since we scrimmaged against them.

We played well enough to win again but haven't found the holes on offense in the last two games. It's hard to guess the mindset of our guys right now, because it's tough to lose a game like this. I know they would like to go out with a win and finish on a good note.

We played well defensively after the first five minutes, and we converted the power play well. We got a lot of guys involved. Now we go against one of the deepest and most talented teams in the Bay State Conference.

We played well at both ends of the court against Scioto. They were undefeated, so that puts us a leg up in the conference.

We played well, and we had to in order to get a win over a very good opponent. It was one of our more complete matches against a better team.

Jim Petro

We are convinced (that) at some time, we're going to win a judgment against Noe. We just want to make sure they money is there to pay judgment,

Kenneth Bacon

We are continuing to focus on air defenses. We have made progress, particularly against its command and control elements.

Grant Wilson

We are consoled by the fact we couldn't possibly perform so badly again - even with practice.