Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Rand Paul

I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

Dave Brat

If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.

Dave Harter

We're not just trying to be dictators of taste.

E. Helm

to sacrifice Taiwan's security in order to appease the dictators in Beijing.

Kenneth Roth

When Western governments try to use economic pressure to secure human rights improvements, China's no-strings rule gives dictators the means to resist.

Naomi Wolf

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

Gerhard Schroeder

We Germans know from our own experience that dictators can sometimes only be stopped with force.

Bill Kristol

Surely the United States should do what it can to prevent dictators elsewhere from inferring that repression works.

Javier Solana

We want to prove to Lebanon our support in establishing strong relations on political and economic levels between Lebanon and the European Union.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bruce Elder

We've seen such terrific growth in property values that it's very hard for a person starting out to get a home - and I feel that home ownership is probably the single most important thing in keeping a family together. If you look at economic stability for a family, and being part of a community, home ownership is the number one thing that we should address.

Andy Bryant

We've seen no signs of an economic recovery.

Mark Davis

We've seen an increase of about one and a half trains per year because of economic growth.

Mitchell Cohen

The problem with vaccines is not a new problem, ... For the last decade, we have had reduction in the number of vaccine manufacturers. ...The issue comes down primarily to economics ... Profit margins are small.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Thein Sein

As prime minister, I was able often to meet people, to try to understand their needs and the country's economic situation - but it wasn't as if I was planning or ever expected to become president, so I wasn't thinking back then of what I would do if I was in this position, I was just trying to understand the problems and challenges.

Thomas R. Kelly

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

Mike Donahue

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

David Booth

When you see a player go down like that and is really hurting and can't come back, I think that sends a message to our team. It gives you fire.

Billy Gardner

We've seen it before and we didn't want to quit on an inning. It gives us momentum but the momentum is only as good as your starter taking the mound.

Scott Walton

The process also gives us an opportunity to get demographics and meet the people that we are serving.

Abby Wambach

When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

Laurie Geigel

The production gives you a real life simulation. You've got to trust each other and get it done. It's not a typical 'work hard, study and get a grade' class.

Travis Bradberry

Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach.

Cameron Russell

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

Lark Voorhies

I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

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.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Richard G. Scott

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Travis Bradberry

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

Frank Chumbley

We are going to have to find out who is going to step up when the pressure is on. We are going to have to find that out real early.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Chris Carter

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Bosh

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Ben Broussard

We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.

Greg Hill

We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.

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!

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

John Milton

With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Daniel Pearl

now rule out the possibility that he has been killed by the kidnappers.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.