Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

Charles Leadbeater

People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'

Heidi McIntosh

Road claims like these have become the weapon of choice by modern-day sagebrush activists trying to wrest control from federal government. It's time to stop.

David Wald

Roger was a Democratic activist who was involved in many campaigns for several years, but if he was going around making promises for job interviews he was just lying.

Larry Holmes

Many activists around the country have been discussing this date.

Geoffrey Kors

We now have the Senate of the largest state in the nation endorsing marriage equality. This undermines President Bush's claim that this effort is being undertaken by a few activist judges.

Brian Johnson

I think the result will be you'll have a shareholder activist with a significant but not controlling interest who will lobby for a restructuring. For the first time, we could have someone who could look out for shareholders.

Jeff Sessions

I think conservatives do not have confidence she has a well-formed judicial philosophy, and they are afraid she might drift and be a part of the activist group like Justice Souter has, ... She will need to articulate a vision of the Constitution and the role of a judge that is sound or she could be in trouble with the Republican senators.

Larry Neal

The artist and the political activist are one. They are both shapers of the future reality. Both understand and manipulate the collective myths of the race. Both are warriors, priests, lovers, and destroyers.

Jeff Froelich

Reed-Custer left its nerves in the locker room, we brought ours with us. We did a good job sticking with it and kept gutting, gutting and gutting it out.

Ndamukong Suh

Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.

Friso Abbing

Relations are really good right now. Maybe the bombings in Madrid and London have brought the two continents together.

Gene Upshaw

Paul brought up comments that John made after the game. I guarantee you, that's not helping my case.

Jeremy Lavoie

Patrick gave our team a big lift with the energy he brought to the court. He changed our flow in the second half.

Atharva Veda

Peace and tranquility have come; the Guru, the Lord of the Universe, has brought it. The burning sins have departed, O my Siblings of Destiny.

Shamil Basayev

Our losses were high because five days before the operation there was a serious leak of information and the infidels brought in an extra 1,000 special forces troops.

Stevie Schmidt

People have come up to us and said, 'We live in Grand Chute, we'd like the same thing, we love the situation in Appleton, we want to keep it, we wish we could vote,' and they could vote if it was brought to them in their areas.

Ben Wagner

People have brought trumpets on stage, we have had people use violins.

Robin Reynolds

Svetlana is one of the most electrifying players on the Tour. Svetlana has, over the past couple of years, emerged as a real contender in women?s tennis, and we are delighted that she has chosen the Cup as one of her tournaments.

Joe Tiller

Our players are students, and it's important that they interact with their classmates. The Grand Prix motto is 'students helping students,' and I think what our players have chosen to do relates nicely.

Jay Marshall

Our field inspectors were writing everything down and nothing was being captured. So we were looking to do performance management and live data capture. The PDA was chosen over a laptop because it was cheaper.

Ehud Barak

Maybe I made a few or maybe many tactical mistakes, ... but I did not make a mistake in the very essence of what I've ... chosen to do, namely to leave no stone unturned in order to find a way to put an end to this conflict, at the same time to be open-eyed enough to realize that it takes two to tango.

C. S. Lewis

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

Mike McGee

I was kind of surprised. I'm from a small Division III school in Bangor, Maine. I would have thought they would have chosen somebody from a Division I school or something like that,

Patrick Craven

I think they can be judged by the company they have chosen to keep.

Elizabeth Smith

It is a privilege for the museum to be chosen to host the 2006 induction ceremony.

John Garamendi

It is a market leader. It has chosen to keep its rates high, ... Until they reduce their rates, the rest of the industry is not going to jump in.

Steve Ross

I think they said they were looking to read the law more aggressively than it has ever been read before. It was a mistake for them to pursue this matter. They ignored the original intent of the statute.

Chad Henne

Just going through last week, not playing ever like that before ... (you) just pretty much got to ignore it and move on and be more prepared than you were last week.

Bob Brewer

I don't think you can completely ignore that.

John Edward

Ignore the polls. They're wrong all the time.

Miriam Toews

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Rivers Cuomo

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

Dave Davis

Matt's idea, as it is with all injuries, was to ignore it and it would go away.

Parry Aftab

Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Scott Goslin

Registration will be lower than it was in the fall. We will also have T-shirts instead of jerseys for the uniforms, and that will make them not as expensive.

Dale Shull

That's what I think about when I'm running. Instead of just running for 15 minutes, that makes me go for 30 minutes. I think about being a four-time state champion.

John Bennett

I wish my son could have known her instead of telling him stories about her.

Stephen Harper

I think Mr. Martin is making a mistake talking about issues no one wants to talks about ... and instead not telling people why they should vote for his party.

Andy Roddick

I thought he played great, let's get that out there right now. He really took it to me so I was playing reactive instead of active.

Jamie Kennedy

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Robert Webb

I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Doug Anderson

That could reduce the population by 200 inmates, ... The judges are supposed to come in soon.

Don Samuel

Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Kate Reed

I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

David Frum

Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.

Jaymie Pedigo

Judges can come from the community; they don't have to be scientists.

Lord Hailsham

Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge.

Warren E. Burger

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Bill Cosby

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Bill Cosby

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

C. S. Lewis

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

C. S. Lewis

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

C. S. Lewis

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Bette Davis

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Anthony Storr

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Anthony Storr

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Bertrand Russell

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

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.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.

Michael Lynton

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.