Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Fitzgerald

We were attempting to put that apparatus on him yesterday, ... But as soon as we unshackled his hands to move them from the back to the front that's when he started to struggle.

Many of these targets are indeed the brains behind the brutality going on in Kosovo today, part of the apparatus that is driving this ethnic genocide that is going on inside this part of former Yugoslavia,

Michael Johns

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Lyor Cohen

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

Thomas Piketty

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about the methods that we are using instead of pretending that we have our own scientific apparatus with very sophisticated mathematic models that distinguish us from sociologists and historians.

John Rawls

To employ the coercive apparatus of the state in order to maintain manifestly unjust institutions is itself a form of illegitimate force that men in due course have a right to resist.

Rand Paul

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

If we reach the point where the existing international apparatus do not meet the the Iranian nation's right, the Islamic Republic's policies might come under re-examination.

Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

Flea

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

Ivan Pavlov

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray. The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knockout punch.

I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray ... The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knock out punch.

Stephen Lewis

That distortion of the preventive apparatus ... is resulting in great damage and undoubtedly will cause significant numbers of infections which should never have occurred,

Paul Horowitz

This new search apparatus performs one trillion measurements per second and expands by 100,000-fold the sky coverage of our previous optical search.

Brian Boitano

All their apparatus is on the ice. I'll have to skate around it. . . . There will be some retakes.

Officials were incredulous at the news. He was the lynchpin of the Syrian security apparatus for more than two decades, and was an important right-man both for the current president and his father, Hafez Assad.

Walid Jumblatt

This political senility and this deception by the Syrian security apparatus is a laughable farce and at the same time it seems they will use all means, even security, to shake up security

They are all just shadows of themselves in the current circumstances. There is no apparatus like that working in this election.

The Jordanian security apparatus provides the required protection to foreign embassies without any threat and in the event of a threat, steps up protection. Britain took this decision. Jordan believes that the threat does not warrant closure of the British Embassy.

The council is in some ways worse than what we had before, because it lends a veneer of improvement ... to an apparatus that is still likely to be co-opted by despots.

Jerome Hines

Don't be led astray by the oversimplified notion that proper use of the breathing apparatus will magically provide a panacea for all your vocal problems. To say that vocal technique is nothing more than breath control is as foolish as saying that a steam locomotive is nothing more than a boiler.

If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.

Jonathan Nolan

I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.

Ernesto Zedillo

I am very worried about Oaxaca ... we are activating the whole civil defense apparatus as always,

It's one thing to topple a regime, but it's another thing to dismantle a state and not replace it with an apparatus to maintain order.

Mario Llosa

Vicente Fox has a truly titanic task upon his shoulders because dismantling an authoritarian apparatus that has had a grip on power for 71 years means reforming the state practically from head to foot.

Bob Dole

This is not a Florida election. This is a national election, ... Democrats control the election apparatus of 47 of 67 counties in Florida. They're about to give us the double whammy here.