Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Jefferson

People have to have a forum to express themselves. They feel very deeply that there has been an injustice against the African American community. ... There was no way to control it.

Razia Khan

Suddenly sovereign credit ratings look a lot better in these countries and as a result banks would become more comfortable with African risk.

Tokyo Sexwale

Our team showed strength in the face of adversity. They did their best and Tomas showed why he is such a highly-rated driver. They are all a credit to their country. We are confident that our performance will improve at the next race, where we will again fly the South African flag with pride.

Nigel Harris

Overall, 2006 should be another very strong year for the South African automotive industry and similarly for Ford Motor Company. The positive growth trend in South African new vehicle sales that we have been experiencing over recent years is set to continue in 2006, albeit at a more subdued pace.

Marilyn Martin

Picasso never copied African art, which is why this show does not match a specific African work with a Picasso. He took its point of view to express his own art. In his drawings we can see three sketched antelopes which come very close to the Bambara sculptures of antelopes. But then he creates a metamorphosis in which he creates something phenomenal and new.

Michael Klein

Many African countries that desperately need new enterprises and jobs risk falling even further behind other countries that are simplifying regulation and making their investment climates more business friendly.

Marc Perry

Many African Americans consider faith an integral part of their lives. These are people that fit our target demographic really well in terms of income, age and lifestyle.

Ertharin Cousin

Many African Americans are living less than one paycheck away from hunger. When people hit sudden hard times, including illness, loss of job or disruption in health insurance, they are forced to turn to the America's Second Harvest network for help.

Ertharin Cousin

Many African Americans are living less than one paycheck away from hunger.

Stuart Taylor

People of faith and conscience will continue . . . because that is the nature of our faith and our moral duty.

John Walsh

I think that we must look at the situation and say: 'Are we respecting a person's conscience?'

Harry Pachon

He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,

Mike Holt

I think it shows that you are a man of conscience and principle.

John Milton

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,/ That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.

Ernie Accorsi

He shaped nearly every rule and philosophy we have in our league today. Most of all, he was the moral conscience of the National Football League. He now joins the pantheon of incredible men who made this league what it has become.

Bob Schindler

He's going to live with this a lot longer than we will. That's his conscience, and his girlfriend's conscience.

Bob Inglis

Hundreds of American soldiers have given their lives in Afghanistan to promote liberty, including freedom of conscience and religion.

Ernie Accorsi

He was the conscience of the National Football League.

Shami Chakrabarti

reflect on the culture of intolerance that he may be promoting in his party and the country as a whole.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

Referendums are not held in an unstable country with unstable society.

King Abdullah

reject any country to have nuclear weapons, especially in the Middle East region.

John Tesh

Pat, the last election was decided by voters who listed 'moral values' as their primary concern. What do you think this means for the country and should we try to mend fences with the liberals?

Taya Kyle

Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

Kit Carson

Our only idea was to get rid of the dross as soon as possible, but at the same time have as much pleasure and enjoyment as the country would afford.

Fidel Ramos

Our leaders must not only make sure that our future is enhanced but also that those who plundered the country must also be punished,

Danny Wuerffel

Our ministry's mission is to revitalize the Desire neighborhood. It was once ranked the worst neighborhood in the country. We may have an opportunity to rebuild it in the way everyone would want it to be.

Jennifer Granholm

Our Michigan troops are sacrificing so much for us serving our country and serving far away from home and family.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

B. R. Ambedkar

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

B. R. Ambedkar

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Berthe Morisot

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Pat Conroy

I thought I'd stumbled onto Pluto. What I did not realize, I had stumbled into the great lie. They were separate but there was no equality whatsoever.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Allison Davis

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Carl Schmid

Basically, it said, 'we support non-discrimination, and equality for all' -- except for gay people.

Tom Johnston

Out of these piles, you would get flame lengths of 10 to 15 feet. When there's normal moisture, the flame lengths would be 6 to 7 feet.

Carl Sagan

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

Randy Adams

I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw flames from the back of my truck,

Pierre Corneille

It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Samir Bhavnani

I don't think it'll flame out, but I don't think it'll take off until 2008.

Benjamin Disraeli

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Robert Lopez

My god, I wanted to go in there and smash that window and try and see if I could pull her out. But the flames were too high. It's gone.

Abdu'l Baha

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Louis Navellier

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Ryan Julison

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Jennifer Best

Some groups are worried that, if that happens, they won't have the volunteers they need.

Bob DuPuy

plans to talk to people involved with various groups he does not know. After that, we should be in a better position to make a recommendation.

Bill Dixon

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

Bill Peterson

I want you guys to pair up in groups of three and then line up in a circle.

Jeffrey Osborne

I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.

Richard Young

I think it's human nature that we all tend to do much better in groups than we do alone.

Billy Graham

part poet, part preacher, a singer of the human spirit.

Margot Robbie

People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.

Dan Shechtman

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Bhagavad Gita

Success in work comes quickly in this human world.

Jim Leach

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Kamila Hyat

Our view is that if surveillance has happened, it is undemocratic. This is a violation of human rights.

Tony Perkins

Rep. Foxx is to be commended for supporting public policy that values human life, protects our religious liberties, and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family.

Jimmy Schaeffler

Piracy has taken a hit, but it's always going to be a problem. It's human nature to find ways around paying.

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Scott Creel

Some of the theaters' seating was literally underwater, and those seats will have to be removed and replaced.

Wayne Shelor

Right there, right on the curb, literally right there.

Beck

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

Beck

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

C. S. Lewis

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Cathy Moriarty

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

Cecil Beaton

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Carl Sagan

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Dominic Modise

As a minority coach, you have to prove yourself. Things can change, but it's always important to remember where you come from.

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Steve Gibson

Our wines are doing quite well in national and international competitions.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Bill Daly

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

Edward Collins

We need a backstop of a national catastrophe fund,

Chris Bosh

I think it's (the national team selection) a little bigger.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Curtis Sumpter

I think of it all the time. I think we could be national champions. But even with us not out there, I still think we can be.

Andrew Spano

It is one of the safest parks in the world.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Aziz Ansari

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

Brian McKnight

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Adam Ant

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

Birdman

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.

Maxine Shane

We would be cooperative if state parks wants it.

Nelson Mandela

which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.

Donella Meadows

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

Douglas Brinkley

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

John Shimkus

Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.

Fulton J. Sheen

The power of the rosary is beyond description.

Jordana Brewster

I'm saying my rosary every day.

Pope Francis

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

Saint Francis de Sales

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Robert Esche

I was just trying to spark my team.

John Buskirk

That was really the spark that got us in gear.

Kiki Nesbitt

That was one of the sparks for the show itself.

Heather Smith

That was kind of the spark that got us going.

Harvinder Kalirai

We got the spark from the PPI today,

Alice Munro

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

Cindy Sheehan

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

Arthur Young

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Elie Wiesel

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.