Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

John Taylor

He secretly knows what happened. You're always looking for the right place, which was here. Board members didn't argue about petty things and wanted to do the right thing. I used to tell friends I knew I had found the right place.

James Mullen

I think we've been one of the real innovative states. It doesn't mean we don't argue and fight we do because we're human. But what will sustain the state of Washington is that we have an awful lot of dedicated emergency managers who have worked together for years.

Ken Kramer

Recreational interests of our members was not sufficient to give us a claim to be able to contest the permit. However, one of the three state environment commissioners disagreed with the majority and indeed felt that Sierra Club should have standing. So, we think we have a pretty strong case to argue that because of the recreational interests of our members in Sam Rayburn.

David Garrity

In my view, shares of Ford would probably become more attractive if it got down to say $22, $23 a share. Although, I would argue that as long as these investigations are continuing, they'll probably serve to put a lid on the stock price performance. Other stocks in the auto sector we are more positive on include General Motors ( GM : Research , Estimates ). Also at GM, you've got a change in management -- you've got a significant outside shareholder developing in Carl Icahn, owning 30 percent in GM. There's just a lot of value to be realized in the group.

Willie Mullins

I never thought I'd say this but you could argue that he's a bit of a handicap snip now!

Bruce Anderson

In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.

Jermaine Dye

If you look at the replay, it shows it hit the bat, ... I can't argue with that. I'd tell you lies if I said it hit me.

Tom Farley

In this article we argue that directing our efforts towards changing the overall acceptability or opportunity for risky sexual decision-making might be more effective than the one-on-one interventions.

Osvaldo Puccio

He can only be arrested if a legal warrant exists, and such a warrant can only be issued by a court that is requested to do so. That request is being made now by the foreign ministry, based on the note from Peru.

Yvonne Martinez

He's got quite a history and has been arrested numerous times for drug trafficking.

Jacques Diouf

Later, security forces surrounded the building and stormed (it), ... They arrested the man. But unfortunately, we have now a situation with two of our staff dead.

Detlev Mehlis

The investigation is not over yet. We feel we took a very important step, but these five suspects we have arrested in our assessment are only part of the picture, so we will have to further investigate and we do think more people are involved.

Tom Carson

The investigation began when one of the victims was arrested for prostitution by Hartford Police. The women involved were all from out of state.

Tela Mange

The ferry is considered to be an extension of the roadway, therefore we can do traffic enforcement on the ferries. We have also arrested a number of people for DWI.

John Brewer

The father, the mother and son have all been arrested for this before. The son is currently on probation. The father is in the (Texas Department of Criminal Justice) and the mother served time in a state jail facility.

Katrina Szish

The cops were waiting and promptly arrested them. They were so shocked because they thought they were going home with all that money.

Meles Zenawi

The (CUD) officials who have been arrested will be taken to court, ... They are responsible for all these things.

Michel Bonnardeaux

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Mahmoud Othman

Everyone is nervous. The security situation is not good. There are so many explosions at the checkpoints and near the convoys. The Americans are afraid. And when the driver doesn't see them, it happens sometimes that civilians are killed. It is a tragedy that most of the victims are civilians. It is making life more difficult. But this is our situation. It is very dangerous.

Kofi Annan

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

Peter Bergen

Where else in the world is a government helping the civilians they harm in conflict? Marla was very proud of this fact,

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Stuart Symington

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

William Schulz

Only the deployment of sufficient numbers of troops with logistical support by UN member states will provide the protection that the civilians so desperately need.

Charles Singley

I got drunk that night in Honolulu, and we had some celebration. I went to the nearest joint I could find. Soldiers and sailors paid for nothing. Civilians paid for everything, picked up all our tabs. They loved us. The town was ours.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Anthony Kennedy

It involved a constitutional issue of the gravest importance decided 4-3 by a state court on a federal issue that it was our responsibility to take the case, ... Sometimes it is easy, so it seems, to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of our court.

Neal Katyal

It is a foundation of this court to test the lawfulness of military tribunals.

Rick Davis

I think the public vetting proves that this guy is the real deal ? bright, knows the issues and can leave a long-term imprint on the court because of his youth and intellect.

Harry Reid

I think the American people can see through this so clearly. The president should come forward with some middle-of-the-road person, somebody that is going to be a good Supreme Court justice, not somebody that's going to be writing the law from the bench, ... This Week.

Michael Bell

There is no hearing currently set in the federal court for a hearing to review the restraining order.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

George Will

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.

James Gleick

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.

Dionne Warwick

Drugs of every sort, including aspirin, are not anything I even think about.

LeBron James

Brenda was a special person to everyone, including myself. I will truly miss her being around. My prayers go out to her family, especially my little brother, Brandon.

Alex Clare

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

William McCarthy

You have to look at the big picture, including your other lifestyle choices.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Don James

It puts officers in a situation where they have to think about protecting people or violating policy.

Charles Ramsey

There was a convoy of delegates that got trapped by the crowds, and the officers were trying to get them out,

Don Kelly

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Umberto Eco

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

Richard M. Nixon

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation. Once again, prudence dictates a more gradual increase in the wage rate, so that the economy can more easily absorb the impact.

Rian Johnson

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Richard Ford

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

Richard Gere

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Rich Lowry

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Winona Ryder

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Robert Jordan

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Scott Clavenna

In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.

Keith Ashdown

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Dee McCann

I'm anxious. Little nervous. You know how it is. You never know until that day comes.

Charlotte Rampling

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Josh Trank

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

Nathan Frohling

We've been waiting 10 years for this moment.

Byron Dorgan

I think this is nonnegotiable, ... You've waited too long.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Ibrahim Gambari

He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.

Richard Dawkins

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

Tyler Hoechlin

Some things are worth the wait.

Willie Keeler

Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.

William Saroyan

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

Sara Zarr

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.