Famous Quotes & Sayings

Retailers don't want to alienate their loyal customers by making their return policies too strict, but they also need to create policies that discourage return fraud,

Joan Kirner

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Jon Katz

(Jesse) was alienated from school. He wasn't learning much. He didn't have a lot of teachers who were close to him. He didn't have social acceptance. He had never been invited to a party in high school. He's very much a loner.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

It does more harm than good to the crime-fighting efforts of the police as the same people who should be enlisted to assist are those who are being alienated by feeling like they are under the gun.

He didn't alienate every player. He did talk to some teammates. We all have to drop our egos, period, and become a unit. He has to put his trust in management that they'll do the right thing in the long run. Only he can decide that. Everyone in here has a job to do.

He did not say how people are going to change the technocrats who seem to be running French politics, who have alienated the people and who have gained Le Pen his temporary success.

has managed to alienate and humiliate all the very countries that we now need to help us maintain the peace both in Afghanistan and Iraq.

If Oracle and the others are going to embrace this model, they have to alienate all their business partners and build a whole new ecosystem.

Larry Sabato

Frist has managed to work himself into the worst of both worlds. He has alienated moderates because of his positions on Terri Schiavo. Then he has alienated conservatives on embryonic stem cell research.

Rosanne Cash

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters.

His strategy in terms of moving toward the center and trying to satisfy the people who elected him in the first place is working. But in terms of his re-election, this is a very tricky path to walk. He needs to be careful not to alienate his conservative, Republican base.

Brian Molko

I was a very frustrated, lonely and anti-social young man. I felt very alienated and very bored as well.

James Zogby

If we expect credit, or expect that this somehow is responsive to the anger of those who have become alienated from the United States, it's not.

He has basically got to freeze the peace process to woo back alienated right-wing voters.

Mitch McConnell

He never likes to alienate anybody. But a Senate leader has to lead, and he has to be pretty direct and tough on people." ()

Daniel Woodrell

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.

John Fisher

She's not a person to be trusted. She's alienated many of the people over here. Quinn sold us out.

She hasn't got any track record in the evening. She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts.

She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts. It's an awful lot of money you're spending on her, so just to break even you've got to increase your audience by a significant amount.

So far this is a lose-lose issue for the Republican Party. It has both alienated their base and many in the Latino community.

Robert Teeter

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Man is on the verge of reuniting it's scattered Mind, Body, and Soul...soon to be rehumanizing both Nature and it's alienated divinity. The outcome is the harmony of Man, Nature, and God as One.

Noah Baumbach

With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

Nalo Hopkinson

You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.

We want to be sensitive on how we deal with that. Because we really are a community, we want to build things for our users and not alienate them.

Elmer Bernstein

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

Clive Sinclair

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

Mary Lambert

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

When you force teens to undergo intrusive medical procedures as punishment, you alienate them from the health care system and health providers they need to be able to rely on and trust in order to protect their well-being,

Mark Shapiro

We're trying to build a wider tent to bring more people in, but at the same time not alienate our core audience. These three shows will be a bridge between the news and entertainment sides of sports.

Robert Harris

I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.