Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Josephson

Starr County has always been a difficult jurisdiction for corporate defendants. ... The people here are good people; they just tend to favor individuals in cases where there are corporate defendants involved. It's just a fact of life.

Charles Phillips

Some of the managers missed some of the initial run up in tech stocks, ... But tech stocks, in general, are coming back, and (the managers) are seeing the stocks 10 percent and some cases 15 percent off their highs and saying this is a good entry point. Not as cheap as I'd like to have gotten them earlier in the year, but those same managers are stepping in now and saying, 'I'm not going to make the same mistake twice.'

Elliot Cohen

Our preference is not to discuss these cases because they're ongoing and involve informants and information that we don't want to jeopardize.

John Locke

Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.

Robert McCann

Our first option is not to ... go to court. That's never a first option. There are cases where, for whatever reason, the owners or operators don't want to take measures to comply with the environmental laws everyone else has to comply with.

James Krouse

Outsourcing has always generated significant political debate, which in some cases has stalled this sector's growth at the state and local level. As the economy continues a strong recovery, we expect outsourcing opportunities to increase on the state and local level.

F. Schumacher

Man, that was intense, ... I didn't expect that I would have to pedal it right there, but I didn't want to give up that $100,000 without fighting for it. I wish everyone could experience that rush because then they'd know why we do what we do. It's just great to win the Budweiser Shootout and get $100,000, 50 cases of beer, and a ride with the Clydesdales.

Anthony Ricco

Most of these cases become the battleground for fundamental issues that every defendant has in a criminal case.

Frank Jackson

We never like cases to take this long, but they happen. The court has heard that request (to continue the current trial date), but has so far denied it.

Carlos Parreira

Other teams have problems deciding who will be picked, we have problems deciding who will be left out. Some very good players will miss out because we can only take 23.

Rahul Dravid

I will have to see how the wicket looks tomorrow before deciding what to do (If I win the toss), but I don't think the toss would make much of a difference.

Jacques Rogge

I think the members must take that element into consideration. It is not just an issue of deciding to include or not to include. This is also reviewing a decision that has been taken six or seven months before.

Carlos Dimas

I think that ultimately the grouping that will have the deciding power is the movie studios in the US because they've got to feel comfortable in term of the intellectual property management of the movies,

Brian Cashman

He didn't want to sign here and then in a week be traded. I think that was the deciding factor.

Geoff Smith

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change.

Adam Fisher

I think I still got my point across, irrelevant to the jury deciding or not. Plus, with the jury you never know. I mean, there's always that risk. And with the settlement presented to me I was happy,

Chan Gailey

I think in the fall we'll still be in the position of deciding who's going to play what positions for the first two weeks. And then we've got to make a decision one way or the other after two weeks and go with it. And the interesting part will be how quickly any of the freshmen might be able to get involved.

Bodo Fritzen

I think it's going to be a strong team. I will probably have some headaches deciding who to start, which is a pleasant headache to have.

William Danforth

Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening; those which when shared multiply. Our least valuable possessions are those which when divided are diminished.

John Ruskin

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

Yvette Girouard

This was one of those teams that we said we needed to sweep and we're getting it done. We divided the programs up as to what was realistic and who we thought on paper we should sweep and we are on track so far except for Georgia.

Woody Allen

I feel that life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable

Mr Howard

John Brogden leaves the Liberal Party as he found it: leaderless, directionless, divided and without a vision for the people of NSW,

John Sununu

I would recommend that whatever you do, you find a way to encourage the allocation of some of the existing funds, even if it has to be done initially in a somewhat divided way,

Unknown

May every day be happier than the last. Let's drink to love, which is nothing -- unless it's divided by two.

Jake Siewert

Obviously the war divided a lot of Americans. If anything, this is meant to heal those divisions and point the way toward a new future.

Tricia Neuman

Seniors are still divided as to being favorable or unfavorable, but many still don't know enough to have an opinion.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Mohammed Habib

Maybe after the president wins elections, as we're sure he will, the freedoms that we've seen for the Brotherhood over the last year will be taken away.

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Neil Young

To protect our freedoms, it seems like we're going to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Ami Bera

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.

Charles B. Rangel

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

Ben Shapiro

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

Peter Costello

part of the Western tradition of individual rights. If you dont like those values, then dont come here.

Alfred Jarry

Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality.

Jim Neal

Suffice it to say, there was quite a physical struggle in this and this individual was injured severely.

Kathy Smith

Some of those issues are things that are going on at the individual sites. People are pulled in every way and sometimes things just get overlooked.

John Cornyn

on the side of justice and individual liberties.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

B. F. Skinner

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Karl Swanson

Pictures didn't do it real justice. It was all gone. It wasn't just partially burnt, it was all gone.

Bruce Hahn

We've talked to Justice, and we think what they're doing is tremendous.

C. S. Lewis

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

Benjamin Rush

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Antonia Fraser

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Antonia Fraser

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

Ron Myers

I think there's been a travesty of justice in my son's sentencing.

Antoine Fuqua

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?

Brad Boyes

Rebounding was the sole key to the game. We got wiped out in the rebounding stats.

Jeff Tedford

Patience is our key here with the quarterback situation. There are going to be some mistakes, but we're going to work through it.

Billy Donovan

Statistically, that was the key to the game. We shoot 49 percent on the road, you're not going to get much better than that.

Cain Jagodzinski

Our whole key has been free-throw shooting. A lot of people don't know how big that is, but it's huge.

Frank Sciolla

Our big guys-the key is they pass really well. The kids take pride in passing the ball. It's a traditional part of the program.

Bill Crawford

Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.

Bill Crawford

The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.

Bill Engvall

One day I locked my keys in my car and as I was standing there with a hanger halfway through the top of my window, a guy walks up and says, Lock yer keys in the car? Without missin' a beat I said, Nope, Just washed it and was hanging it up to dry. Here's your sign.

Carl Sagan

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Larry Mullen

I'm thinking he thought he was protecting them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Edmond Rostand

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

Cal Cochran

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.

George Herbert

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

R. C. Sproul

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

Madeleine L'Engle

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Fred Thompson

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

Werner Heisenberg

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

Cooter Failla

I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.

Jim Hall

I won't vote for it for any reason.

Hal Brown

I still have concerns, but I'll vote for it,

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Charles Kennedy

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.