Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aden Darity

The public perception is unfair because it ignores issues in society that hip-hop reflects.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Judy Breselor

I don't find it acceptable. It's really got to go before the Planning Board. I had some issues with it and have to go see how it fits.

Richard Benjamin

In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Samuel Beckett

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Salman Rushdie

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Troy Aikman

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

Walter Lippmann

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

Voltaire

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

William P. Young

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Bryan Kennedy

I like talking to the public and straightening them out.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

James Russell Lowell

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

Lucan

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Eric Hoffer

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.

Eric Hoffer

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

Eric Hoffer

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Jon Kyl

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Mike Keenan

They were put in a position, in my opinion, that was unfair to them,

Sheldon Adelson

It's unfair that I've been treated unfair, but it doesn't stop me.

Joss Stone

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

Dean Ryan

It is unfair for him and us that he comes in on a one-off.

Andy Jones

Yes. As a non-smoker, I think it's very unfair that smokers go off and have a break, when I just can't.

Neil Gaiman

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

John O'Hara

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive....

Hillary Clinton

We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.