Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Schakowsky

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Azar Nafisi

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Michael Johns

No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire'.

Adam Levine

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

Kofi Annan

Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basically it is in the hands of Indonesia.

Kofi Annan

If the trial does not go forward as planned, (the U.N. Security Council) may revert to an international tribunal, ... It is essential that those who committed the atrocities be brought to justice.

Tony Greig

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

Steven Spielberg

Our hope is that the archive will be a resource so enduring that 10, or 50, or even 100 years from now, people around the world will learn directly from survivors and witnesses about the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Charles Clark

Our fear is of course of more attacks, until we succeed in tracking down the gang which committed the atrocities on Thursday and that's why the No. 1 priority ... has to be the catching of the perpetrators.

Eliphas Levi

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...

Samuel Butler

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.

Marc Morial

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

Lord Chesterfield

No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

Johann G. Seume

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Jeremy Collier

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

James Malone

One of our philosophies is that idle plants stay run-ready, have a skeleton staff and keep the plant in the most optimal position without the machinery being run.

Stephen Merchant

I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.

Bruce Hoffman

It doesn't really give us any more indication of whether this was a plot that was derailed or preempted, or a plot that was more in the realm of an idle daydream.

Charles Dickens

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Ted Cruz

Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.

Jamie Zawinski

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

Leonor Varela

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Elias Hicks

To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.

Lauren Johnson

We have a real variety here and I think that is why residents like to come. This year there seemed to be more jewelry than anything else.

Lesley Ann Warren

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Camille Pissarro

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!