Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Morris

We have seen an absolute explosion in the number of hybrids out there since about 2004.

Ron Anderson

We have to fly legal, which is 1,000 feet over populated areas, and we cruise a little over 100 mph. Kids who have been in commercial flights say that this is so different because you can see the cars and people and cows below. It absolutely amazes them.

James Rubin

We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the issue seriously, as our actions demonstrate.

Richard Blumenthal

We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual basis for these claims since the state has played absolutely no role in this internal church dispute. ? We really, essentially, have no idea what they mean by this claim.

Gerhard Schroeder

What the prime minister has said about the close, personal relationship which I have with this country is absolutely correct. That has always been the case and will always remain the case.

Susanna Kearsley

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

Karen Allen

We have backed off the big push to get computers in primary grades, ... We do have things where kids use technology before they leave fifth grade. But previous studies of the introduction of technology at other schools haven't shown a huge value in learning as a result. When we put something in the classroom, it absolutely has to further what kids need to know. I just don't want to go off in a tangent in one direction without being completely clear that it will pay off for all the kids.

Alan Edmondson

We've shown we can play with anyone on any given day. I think we deserve the No. 3 or 4 seed, and the sixth seed at the absolute worst.

Jim Puckett

We have had absolutely no discussions about it. All that I and the public have seen was the preliminary presentation. This continues to be public money, and we should have the opportunity to be involved with making decisions.

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.

Chad Cassel

We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.

Paul Spiegel

We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.

Henry Hyde

We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.

Brian Lucas

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

David Dulkys

We have more time to study and play basketball. You can't do both at the same time.

Anthony Crabtree

We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.

Paul Pierce

Whenever you get two all-stars on the court at the same time, you always have that sense of pride. We both have the utmost respect for one another and I think our competitive juices come out. What can I say? It was just a great night for both of us.

Marc Guggenheim

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

Jerry Williams

When I was approached I realized that this has to be the face of the future not only for education but also for the health of American children. If the concepts are proven, Rochester will consider expanding such an experimental environment in one of our elementary schools.

Scott May

What we're really interested in doing is trying to figure out how we can help states and school districts infuse biotechnology concepts into teaching.

David Elkind

Learning teaches us what is known, play makes it possible for new things to be learned. There are many concepts and skills that can only be learned through play.

Charles D. Broad

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.

Dominic Cooper

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

Anita Elberse

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

Brad Goreski

Going into 'Details' magazine to pitch concepts for a potential photo shoot was one of the most nerve-wracking things I had ever done. I didn't really know what one did in a pitch, how they were structured, etc., and that freaked me out big time.

Brad D. Smith

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

Leah Busque

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

Charles Edison

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Brian Eno

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Brent Scowcroft

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Brent Scowcroft

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Elias Atallah

This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

Joy Harjo

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Kenneth Branagh

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Adnan Badran

She (later) went on to Salt because one of her relatives

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

Carol Moseley Braun

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

Carlos Fuentes

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Agnes Repplier

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Alan Keyes

Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

Alan Keyes

Rights come from God and only from God.

Charlotte Bronte

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Charles Sumner

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Edward Merriam

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!