Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Gilbert Scott

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

Richard Lamm

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children.

Mark Coffman

I thought we played with a lot of energy, but we just didn't shoot the ball very well. We were atrocious at the line. We got some good free throw shooters there at the line near the end and that helped.

Yoshinori Katori

Terrorism cannot be justified for any reason. The government of Japan reiterates its firm condemnation of atrocious terrorism that victimizes many innocent people.

Robert Brusca

The president has an atrocious record when it come to job growth.

Art Hogan

All of the news we got today was negative and the market was defying it ... the news was atrocious today,

Howard White

First of all, our shooting from the free throw line was atrocious in the first half. That set the tone for us. And we played no defense. We didn't play defense until we were in trouble in the fourth quarter. That's when we stepped up.

Jordan Knight

One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

John Mozena

Technology solutions can only go so far. It's not like the Internet is broken and these messages go out automatically. Human beings send them, and despite the atrocious spelling most of them use, often they're very canny people.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

Louis Bacon

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

Michel Onfray

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Morgan Wootten

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise

Alan Tonelson

We are looking to Congress, ... It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.

Felix Herrero

We are at their side as they suffer. One cannot forget what happened and one must remember to ensure it does not happen again.

Brad Pacheco

We are pretty tough on fees. We are not going to pay a firm more because they have some overhead with a placement agent.

Anne Bremner

We still stand firm in our view that there should be two newspapers. It would be a shame if there was arbitration, and only one newspaper left standing after all of this sound and fury.

Benjamin Franklin

Stand firm, don't flutter!

Brian France

We're getting down to the wire. Looks to be in the next four to six weeks or sooner there will be some firm announcements of where we'll land.

William Shakespeare

For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

Kevin Mitnick

Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.

Kenny Chesney

I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.

Timothy Flynn

We regret the past tax practices that were the subject of the investigation. KPMG is a better and stronger firm today, having learned much from this experience.

Generoso Senga

We have remained firm in our position that we shall remain united in this stand not to intervene in any of the political undertakings,

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Michael Paranzino

Since 1999 we've had 100,000 innocent people murdered in America. But nobody is planning on commemorating all those people killed.

Bill Hamilton

This proposal would punish people who are innocent of any wrongdoing.

Anna Faris

She's still the same old simple Cindy. She's just as innocent and naive as ever, just trying to save the world again.

Rick Watson

We're kind of in the position that everybody's innocent until proven guilty.

Steven Cohen

We don't have little Miss Innocent who was sprayed for no reason at all.

Agatha Christie

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Lucio Tan

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Billy Higgins

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Bill Plympton

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Henry Tsoi

The ratings upgrade is justified because things in Hong Kong are really improving.

Mark Johnson

We presented the position that we thought was justified in this case.

Daniel Pauly

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

Reg Keys

If this war had been justified by international law I would have grieved and not campaigned,

Blake Lively

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!

Bentzi Lieberman

I say to my friends in Hebron that they should have done everything to get rid of those youths who are eradicating any possibility of having people listen to their very justified complaints.

Jeff Cooper

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

Graham Chapman

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Paul Lawrie

It was very nice obviously, ... I am playing a lot better recently so it was kind of justified I think.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Alberto Fujimori

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Condoleezza Rice

We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

Loretta Napoleoni

Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have terrorism.

George W. Bush

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

George W. Bush

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.