Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Williams

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Suomi Sakai

Organizers of any demonstration or public gathering have a responsibility to ensure that children are out of harm's way, particularly children without family, such as street children who have no-one to look after them and are even more vulnerable.

Christine Jackson

Parents who smoke feel guilty about being role models for smoking; they feel hypocritical about trying to prevent their children from smoking. For these reasons, it's difficult to persuade parents who smoke to become anti-smoking advocates in the home.

Jim Duggan

Parents who send their children to school are entitled to expect that in that environment, at least, they will be protected from predatory sexual behaviour,

Walter Dellinger

Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.

Imraan Ladak

Paul is my childhood idol and when sober is a wonderful person.

Quincy Jones

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.

Rocky Watson

Our main concerns right now are the two children,

Barbara Schneider

Our lives are busy, but we have to find time to enjoy our family's company and share experiences. When parents and children do things together, it can relieve stress.

John Mack

Regarding use of force, firing of the weapon, the police commission found that the use of force was out of policy.

Sergei Mironov

Our parliamentary commission will meet in an open session Wednesday to summarize the work of the past 16 months.

Jim Ramstad

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

Jim Stone

People have to be paid and they're either paid by commission or other investment management fee,

Siim Kallas

Some of the NGOs receiving funds from the commission describe on their Web site one of their main tasks as 'lobbying the commission.

Bill Summers

That commission has done some damn dirty things. I wouldn't put it past them. I know I'm going to be there.

Brad Smith

Our understanding is that we are not likely to get any formal decision from the Commission until after we file our response in this proceeding, and that is due on the 15th of February.

Festus Mogae

On the situation in Angola, the commission had expressed hope that the general elections scheduled for 2006 would entrench that country's democracy.

Harvey Pitt

Our commission has been subject to extremely high attrition, ... with the principle reason being the fact that our employees earn substantially less than their counterparts in the other financial service regulatory agencies.

Isaac Goldberg

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Frank Carlucci

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Anthony Bourdain

that diplomacy is served, and order is restored to the universe.

Sean McCormack

Yes, there is still time for diplomacy but it's up to the Iranians to seize the opportunity," ()

Kofi Annan

Diplomacy is still the way -- with the six-party talks. Everybody agrees on that. The next thing is to try and get everyone back to the table,

Daniel Pipes

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts, ... Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

Douglas Alexander

The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.

Nicholas D. Kristof

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

Mahatma Gandhi

I know no diplomacy save that of truth.

John Devenanzio

Paula was so effective at what she did. I just thought she was being mean, but she was doing everything in her power she could do to make sure she didn't see me with other girls.

Jim Cain

People need to realize it can't and won't last forever. It's been effective for us and it sets us up well to introduce some new models. At this point, our plan only goes through Labor Day.

John Engler

Susan Schwab is an excellent choice. She will be a strong and effective voice for leveling the international playing field.

Lynn Miller

That could be one reason. We have always been in the top 15 percent of counties. We are very effective getting families into work activities, ... There are others variables that also come into play.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Our goal is to be effective, and the only way to be effective is to work with the Israeli government.

Jia Youling

Our vaccines are the most effective in the world.

Daniel Perez

Right now, that is the only tool that is effective in controlling avian influenza.

Steve Owens

Recycling is one of our most effective tools to protect our environment. We are glad to support efforts to increase recycling in the Nogales community.

Brenda Johnson

We need participation from the residents because this is their neighborhood and they know it better than anyone. We want them to share that knowledge with us so we can be as effective as possible.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

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.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool...

Allard Baird

It is all quiet there. There's nothing new, right now.

Michael Manning

He said he killed a woman. He told us to be quiet because we will get into trouble too,

Plaxico Burress

He's kind of got a little quiet 'Eli swagger' about him. You can actually sense that he's being more vocal and he understands that it's his team.

Gary Thompson

He was a better shooter than anything. He was a quiet leader. He did it with his actions, and the respect he had for his teammates.

Cindy Miller

He was a quiet guy, but not in a weird way. Just quiet.

Harry Pachon

He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.

Carla Bruni

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Michelle Duffey

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

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.

Isaac Singer

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Teri Barbera

Someone has to have seen something. We're hoping.

David Ross

Man, we were weeping, ... I've never seen so much destruction.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Warwick McKibbin

I think it's pretty much a continuation of what we've seen but probably a slightly different style.

Paul Cummings

I don't know what to say. I've never seen someone do this, either.

Drew Stafford

I don't know what to say about that, I've never seen that before.

Roger Clemens

I don't know that I've seen anything like it,