Famous Quotes & Sayings

Since this is constitutional it does not impinge on the powers of Congress. Congress, however, must observe its own rules in the power of inquiry in aid of legislation while the rights of the witnesses should be respected.

Baruch Spinoza

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

Last year we gave $105,000 in patient aid just in the Kansas City area.

So many diseases that were once virtual death sentences, including AIDS and cancer, are now often chronic diseases.

Laura Bush

She's interested in the policy surrounding AIDS and what we can do in our country and in other countries around the world to really stop AIDS.

George H. W. Bush

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White Housemake no mistake about it.

Richard Holbrooke

You will never catch up with the spread of AIDS no matter how much money, no matter how many antiretrovirals are put into the system, unless you stop its growth. And the only way to stop its growth is prevention.

Roy Johnson

Magic brought AIDS out of the closet and put it on the kitchen table.

Abraham Lincoln

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

The outpouring of money and aid has not been as full. The graphic nature of the tsunami seemed to really capture people's attention.

John C. Calhoun

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

Abraham Lincoln

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

Nathan Wolfe

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

Yusuf Hamied

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

Yusuf Hamied

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

Catherine Asaro

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

What we have to do with tuition is to make sure it invests resources (and) delivers results. That we actually have a framework, together with student aid that will improve access, not take away from it.

We are deeply saddened by what has happened in New Orleans and the surrounding areas. We sincerely hope that the funds we collect will do a little bit to aid the many victims of Katrina.

Lance Loud

The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

Gavin Hood

In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

George Crabbe

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

The department encourages students with offenses to fill out aid applications. Some may retain aid if they've gone through a rehabilitation program.

W. Averell Harriman

I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

Oscar Arias

The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.

CeeLo Green

I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.

Kofi Annan

The promptness with which the government of Turkey has mobilized initial humanitarian aid has helped to mitigate the initial level of suffering,

To use Apache helicopters to fire missiles at civilian quarters, that's a violation of international law. To destroy homes over its inhabitants, that's a violation of international law. Not to allow humanitarian aid for 14 days to arrive to wounded people, that is a violation of international humanitarian law,

Mike Wallace

I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.

Mechai Viravaidya

Well I think its more important for them to make more Catholics than to prevent AIDS right now. I hope that at some point that position shifts.

Trey Anastasio

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

I think we'll see a lot more mutual aid requests outside the city, but we'll also be making more.

Bernie Siegel

I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.