Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

Antonin Scalia

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

John Austin

Law is commands joined to threats of punishment

Michael Strahan

He showed a lot of poise. He commands the huddle and he commands the offense.

John Gibbons

His presence, that's a big boy. He commands respect that way.

George Orwell

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Iain McGilchrist

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Elian Gonzalez

We reiterate that Lazaro will not disobey the law,

Jeff Flake

Pat Tillman exemplified the sacrifice, selflessness, and service of the U.S. military. Nowadays, genuine role models in professional sports are few and far between, but Tillman proved that there are still heroes in sports.

Luke Zeller

Patience plays a huge part. As far as in high school, every person here was a star in their high school.

David Crabbe

Our offense is decent. But we're still getting our legs underneath. We're still a little wobbly right now. We'll go as far as our setter can take us.

E. B. White

Our mailing list is over 600, and we know that it's far from complete.

Craig Oren

Our original goal was to finish in the top five and we weren't far off. Overall, it was a successful year. The state was a lot more competitive. The top teams were more evenly matched and it took a lot more points to stay in the top ten than it did last year.

Debbie Kolosh

Our old canteen was a big red school bus. It was kind of limited as far as what they could do in it.

Larry Collins

Sure, I thought we had two good looks. But we missed far more than just two shots. You can't go back and look at just those shots.

Stan Sanchez

Splitting series is not going to do anything as far as percentage points. It's all about percentage points. You don't gain anything by splitting a series. You have to win at least three of four to gain ground.

Paul Lawrie

Someone had to have a go, but Raphael had to make a few mistakes for me to have any chance, so good luck to him, ... He was so far ahead, second place seems like winning.

Orrin Hatch

I think he'd stop everything else if he could just sit down with the former president, ... If he could just sit down and talk to him.

Dave Hollenbeck

I thought it was good for our kids to come out with the intensity they showed. We got in the passing lanes, and obviously, our size was a factor. The kids want to play well in front of some of the former Gaels.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Jason Rostorfer

He is one of the most dedicated, hard-working kids I have ever coached. Josh is a solid four-year wrestler who former standout wrestler Greg Murphy took under his wing when Josh was a freshman. Josh worked hard in the weight room with Murphy and he is living proof that hard work pays off.

Ed Gillespie

I was in Vermont yesterday, and the Vermonters I talked to said I should not have been surprised that something their former governor said was at odds with the facts,

H. Hunt

Get referrals from your former clients, and even join their organizations so that those members can be your clients.

Charles Greene

Former workers are most at risk for asbestos exposure.

John Fortier

Former members are only a percentage of lobbyists.

Katie Couric

But first this is the President's seventh, seventh trip to the hurricane zone and the former oilman is getting a real firsthand look at the devastation that's there.

Scott Bisbe

I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.

Dennis Washington

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Henry Charles Carey

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

John Morley

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Cory Booker

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Bill Callahan

He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week.

Hosea Ballou

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Martin Heidegger

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Nick Bennenbroek

Part of the reason for the dollar's weakness today is positioning,

Lee Rainie

Part of the reason for that is resources,

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Graeme Smith

We never really got a reason from the umpires, I think that was probably the most frustrating part.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Andrew Strauss

I think there'll be a result and if we play like we have done there's no reason why we can't win it from this position,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.