Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Kaunda

Some people draw a comforting distinction between ''force'' and ''violence.'' I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Somebody took a calculated effort into not just pushing something down (but) getting a saw and cutting it down.

Some people might call a chicken a duck, but it's still a chicken.

Someone sitting up at midnight can't call me - but they can certainly go to their Web page and enter a request for some materials or information, and that's very helpful.

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

Some farmers haven't gone through the certification process so we call it unsprayed or naturally grown.

Carol Berg

Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

Some people would call that 'socialized medicine,' but it's simply a program into which you and your employer would pay.

Some people will say this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Others will say you can call it a fee all you want but you're taxing me more.

Bud Collins

Southern California was for a long time the vineyard of tennis.

Southern California is the hotbed of water polo. But Northern California has had good water polo for a long time. We don't find too many blue-chip players, but there are a lot of good players who get overlooked.

Southern California has been the weakest region for awhile, but that could be good for us, because our opponents won't expect us to be as good as we are. We'll be able to come out and catch people by surprise.

Drew Brees

So to be able to come out and go, 'Well, I guess I know when they call the first team, it's me,' that feels good.

Special teams in the playoffs are always huge. The power play and penalty kill are always going to win you games, especially if they keep calling penalties like this and there's going to be a lot of them.

Sylvester Croom

Special teams have been good all the time. We just had a calamity in one game. Like anything else, we just need to be poised in crucial situations.

Joe Arpaio

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.

One guy whose phone was programmed for the theme song from 'The Sting' was getting calls every five minutes. We couldn't figure out which phone it was to turn it off.

One guy we'll call up for sure is Marcus Thames .

Once you're there, size up the situation, you calm down and do what needs to be done.

On-demand, virtual call centers are the way the market is headed.

No way. If this is the result, we'll call for an independent investigation. We'll call on the City Council to make it illegal to spy on peaceful and political community groups.

Nowhere else in the developed world has seen the growth California has, and the Delta has been at the forefront of that growth.

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Now if he doesn't call a special election before Nov. 7, we here in the south of Houston region will be without a congressman in the middle of hurricane season while the country's at war and the whole immigrant reform debate is going on on Capitol Hill. This is an effort to give Tom DeLay a chance to handpick his successor and give him time to catch up to the campaigning that's already been done in this district.

Joe Eszterhas

Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help.

Black Elk

Now and then the voices would come back when I was out alone, like someone calling me, but what they wanted me to do I did not know.

Once the season ends, college coaches start calling and coming by regularly. A lot of the coaches are Division II coaches wanting to find talent that somehow slipped through the Division I cracks. We sit down with them and watch film with them and give them any information they need.

The more it rains, the more calls we get.

The money has been rolling in. People have been calling and we haven't even started working on fundraising yet.

William Shakespeare

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

During that stretch, we just went to a motion offense. We stopped calling plays, and we just let them play.

Kevin Towers

During rough times and tough times his leadership came out, ... He could have been volatile, but he was a calming influence. He remained strong.

Dell was able to gain PC share while sustaining moderate ASP (average selling prices) declines and benefiting from component cost declines. The PC market unit growth was 15% during calendar Q4 and Dell gained share.