Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Chris Grinde

We need to have more than David and Allan scoring for us. It's a very positive sign. We have challenged the other guys to step up. If we are going to have a shot at anything, we will need more than two (scorers).

Selena Ho

We were going to work as hard as we could for each other. She pushed me to limits I never thought possible. She challenged me about how to think and how to play the game.

Greg Smith

We were sluggish the first half, especially defensively. We were giving them too many open looks. We challenged the guys at halftime to play harder, and we did play with better energy.

Rocky Nelson

We were sleepwalking for a while, but we got after the team at halftime and challenged them. They responded. We played some great defense.

Tod Kowalczyk

We wanted to keep him yielded. Tonight I challenged Josh Lawrence, who is a very good defender, to do that.

Anthony Daniels

When that (incident) happened, it fired us up. Coach challenged us to play harder and we stepped it up. He told us to play harder than them and that's what we did.

Jon Papelbon

I thought he pounded the strike zone well. I thought he challenged hitters and went right after them.

Roberto Moreno

Just because a kid is homeless, he shouldn't be denied the legacy of living in Colorado. Just because they're challenged with nutrition and clothing doesn't mean they can't have experiences that other children have.

Bill Oliver

We haven't challenged it. They are here (in New Orleans), and we are co-existing.

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

David Friedman

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

Brodie Croyle

That was a tough Texas Tech team. They fought and fought and fought.

Donald Rumsfeld

that will redefine how war is fought and won, and how the peace is kept.

Steve Koehler

That was a hurtful loss. We started with zero energy, very lethargic. But the girls fought back in the second half.

Manson Hill

We could have given in there and quit. For a long time, we couldn't find our rhythm, but we stayed patient and fought back.

Matt Blair

We could have folded, but I'm really proud of how our kids fought back.

Craig Manning

We played OK. The girls fought hard and had a good attitude, and it was enough for today. But we still have things we can work on.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

Charles de Secondat

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Charles de Secondat

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Secondat

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Charles de Secondat

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Charles de Secondat

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Paul Ricoeur

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

F. Sionil Jose

It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

Malala Yousafzai

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

Jack Klugman

There are so many stories about injustices that I would like to do, especially about the harmfulness of smoking tobacco.

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

F. Schumacher

You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over.

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Bob Dylan

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

Anne Spencer

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

Charles Spurgeon

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

P. J. Harvey

Servant is who you are; prophet is what you do.

Muhammad Ali

If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad

J. K. Rowling

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

John Higgins

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

Calvin Coolidge

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

Norman Ornstein

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Alexander Lebed

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Anand Gopal

Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

Dana Rohrabacher

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Jack Jennings

Right now, you're not seeing radical restructuring. States are being very cautious.