Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Kohut

Rebuilding power stations doesn't offset people's concerns about so much violence and the possibility for civil war as time goes by. The slaughter of one Iraqi by another Iraqi is just head-turning.

David Scott

Part of my drive was guilt. I felt if I did not demonstrate my feelings toward nonviolence and civil rights, I would always regret it.

Mike Smith

Our Office of Civil Rights must respond to that complaint and look to determine whether or not the fact that there is a single-sex school violates the rights of people of the other gender,

George Vecsey

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

Jeremy Corbyn

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.

Bruce Fein

Our forefathers understood that 'trust me' was not good enough for protecting civil liberties.

James Marshall

Our focus right now is to get the civilians who are wounded treated as quickly as possible,

Lester Brown

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

Irene Khan

Over a decade of conflict we have seen the human rights situation steadily worsening, with increasing numbers of civilian killings and injuries and, for a time, the highest number of reported 'disappearances' in the world.

Rhoda Kopy

People have developed very inappropriate concepts of what happens. I think, in part, it is because of Hollywood. Hollywood's depiction is someone swinging a pendulum of some sort and gaining control of you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Elizabeth Hagood

People have got to demand that their legislators support the concept of home rule. The legislature must take a more responsible, big-picture viewpoint.

Sam Worthington

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.

Keith Cox

Our food concept is to make sure we have reasonable prices and deliver good value,

Mike Guthrie

Overall, the difference in our offense this year is that our kids really grasp the concept of the offense. ... We've got some good senior leadership right now.

Johnathan Frakes

Outside of that, the concept of the show has been to explore our aliens' background.

David Marra

Japanese consumers are in the process of embracing the concept of value.

Robert Bixby

That would undermine the whole concept of fiscal discipline.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Our administration has done everything it can to support gay people, gay couples and everything,

Delores Killette

Planning a wedding is no small task. By simplifying stamp buying, couples can mark off one item on their checklist.

Chris Carmack

I think a movie is a great date idea for younger couples. It takes the pressure off, since something else is entertaining you. It's also good for couples in a very comfortable relationship.

Lawrence Jacobs

Married couples under state law get all kinds of rights to make decisions for each other automatically that unmarried couples don't now get no matter how long they've been together.

Jean Chatzky

Joining finances can be tricky. Money has long topped the list of topics couples fight about.

Jacqueline Bisset

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her and one for them together

Ann Donahue

He keeps hitting happily married couples but puts kids where they don't have to see the violence.

Carley Roney

I can't say I'm a big fan. I understand where the pressure is to do this because so many couples pay for their weddings themselves these days and they don't want to give up that dream of having a big wedding. But it seems like kind of a sell-out. This is a major life moment and I think you should do it within your means rather than trying to turn it into a marketing event.

Andrea Lewis

I was scared. I thought we were turning into one of those couples that fight all the time.

Mike Martin

I think it will be a disgrace for the Backus school to be sold.

Ulysses Grant

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

S. Walker

Having been there - I repeat, having been there - I do not wish jail for any person. I really feel sorry for George and his family. ... I wish no man to have that and no man to have that disgrace that I had.

Saint Teresa of Avila

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Anna Held

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Horace

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Peter Kellner

You have got football hooliganism, a number of players who regularly disgrace themselves and a national team that never quite makes it.

Sally Regenhard

We are hoping that the federal government will not leave these victims behind. This is not only a disgrace to the city, it's a disgrace to the nation.

Bruce Barton

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

Heinrich Pierer

Our first quarter results are better than we expected, however we stand by the overall outlook we provided in December,

Debra Roberts

We live life moving forwards, however we learn the most by looking backwards.

Rob Hoffman

It doesn't matter who I wrestle. You still have to go out and get the job done. You only have to win by one point. Sure, you'd like to pin, but it's rewarding however you get the win.

Paul Mason

I'm shocked, there's nothing to justify the prices we're paying before Katrina, however there's a little more to justify the prices we're paying now,

Bill Belichick

I don't know, ... Day to day. We'll take it day by day. That's the way it's been for the last however many months. That's, I think, the only way you can do it.

Sufjan Stevens

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Errol Alcott

He is responding well to treatment however he will be out of tomorrow's Twenty20 match.

Arthur Doyle

I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem

Kelly Macdonald

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

Laura Reiff

We need a legal vehicle for people to come in.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Steve Burns

That was important because it set a legal precedent.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Tim Smith

I think this will end up in some legal problem.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will use all legal and constitutional means to retake power,

Laura Nichols

I think if the vice president thought he had other legal options open to him, we'd defer to his judgment.

Bryan Whitman

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Michael Sanders

I can legally do all the things I have been doing.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

George Taylor

We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

John Barrett

That's usually the consumer's way of saying they're not interested.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Frank MacKay

It doesn't have any basis. It's like me saying they're Martians; it's silly.

Hal McManus

I'm so tired of saying 'box out' that I'm sick of it. I think I say 'box out' in my sleep.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Earl Hamner

I can't get used to saying the words, 'my biographer,'

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Kim Coble

We need a much more supportive infrastructure for farming.

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Homer Thompson

I was always in support of the coach.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Michael Campbell

I think it's the Polynesian connection. I have a lot of support here and it's wonderful.

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.

John Ashton

I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.

David Bryan

He is partially right and partially wrong, but mainly, he is totally wrong.

Murray Walker

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

Doug Wilson

He's a freak, ... totally off the charts.

Sofia Vergara

For me, this is a totally new thing,

Becca Fitzpatrick

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

Bill Cosby

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

Carrie Fisher

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Carrie Underwood

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

Carl Safina

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Bill Bryson

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Bill Bryson

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

Bethenny Frankel

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

Bill Burr

I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.