Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Hanna

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

Stewart Udall

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.

Victor LaValle

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

Matt Adams

When you go from facing 84 - 86 mph fastballs in Florida, to guys, to put it nicely, throwing slow, it really tests your patience at the plate.

We will have to hire another 800 teachers in the next five years to meet the letter of the law. We're already facing a teacher shortage. I would rather have a quality teacher in front of 30 students than a substandard teacher in front of 15 students.

We'd been getting ready for this game for a long time. I told our guys at practice yesterday not to get frustrated. We were facing a great pitcher in Wheeler and it wouldn't be easy.

Winning is great. Now we need to take these two wins and move forward with them into this weekend. We're facing two tough opponents.

Sharon Lawrence

I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors.

Fighting is still going on and we are facing quite a resistance from the other side,

We know there are many issues facing the state right now. We're just trying to keep ours on the front burner.

I wasn't ready emotionally or financially to retire, but that was the only alternative I had. I could not stay there facing him every day, because I knew what he had done to my son. I couldn't stand being there anymore.

I would if I was facing us, ... I'd try to saddle him up. Hes a workhorse.

We had her playing more facing the basket. She saw the floor real well this season. We had lots of people make better cuts, and she did a good job of distributing the ball. She's a real unselfish player.

Jared Bernstein

The problem isn't simply that families are facing higher prices, particularly at the pump. It's also that they're facing lower wages. If wages were keeping pace with inflation, the pinch wouldn't be as hard.

We have not been used to facing such situations where we could win the match and have learnt our lessons.

Paul Wolfowitz

We are in a new era, we are facing new risks, and we must have new capabilities, ... As an alliance, we have never been stronger.

Nobody wants to go to jail for a long time. Most people, especially if they're facing the kind of sentence this guy was, they're going to cooperate.

Nobody is going to invest facing these impediments.

Terrorists are going to find us facing them and that together we are going to win.

Martina Hingis

Looking at the draw, I kind of prefer playing someone like tonight where I know who I'm facing on the other side.

Roger Clemens

What I featured tonight is not going to get it done. It doesn't matter who you're facing because it's not going to get it done.

Wilmington Hoggard will be a tremendous test for us. We will be facing a lineup that is solid from top to bottom.

When I travel throughout the town, what I'm hearing from residents far and wide is that the most pressing issue facing the town is corruption,

Abdullah Gul

We are facing serious problems with the start of negotiations. We are in intense negotiations,

We are facing a Generation-X-driven working class. More people are looking for jobs versus careers,

There is no longer any time to lose - we are facing public pressure.

Tomorrow we have even a tougher task. We are probably going to be facing a stronger team. We have to play for three periods no matter what the score is. You would think being 14-0 I would be happy, but right now I'm not.

Matt Bowen

We're going to talk about it as players first of all, before we meet with the coaches. That's not the way we play defense. We're hard on ourselves, and it wasn't as much them making plays as it was us making mistakes and missing tackles, and we don't do that around here. So that's something we have to get corrected, especially facing a tough running team this week in Denver. We don't do that stuff.

We were hot tonight. When you're facing a team that's hot, it's hard to stop them.

Unless HBOS and Northern Rock step back, Barclays is facing a long uphill struggle in mortgages.

We're facing the realization that rising (interest) rates and rising stock prices are incompatible. The higher rates are really starting to make themselves felt.