Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Harkin

Trust us' is not something the administration can say after Katrina, ... I don't think Congress is in a mood to trust. We want plans. We want specific goals and procedures we're going to take to prepare for this.

To rebroadcast something without a license would be considered to most owners of those licenses a violation of copyright law.

Bart Stupak

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.

If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.

English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.

Beth Grant

Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.

The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

Bruce Feirstein

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

Brian Ferneyhough

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Bruce Babbitt

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

Bruce Babbitt

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

Brian Mulroney

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

Brian Herbert

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

FKA twigs

I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.

Finley Dunne

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Ike Barinholtz

I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.

Iris Chang

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

Irene Rosenfeld

There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

Ira Sachs

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

Clare Boothe Luce

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Justin Bieber

I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.

Joseph Conrad

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Dan Millman

Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.

Dan Millman

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

Hans Kung

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

Frederick Law Olmsted

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

Frederick William Faber

If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.