Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Ghosh

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

William Odom

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

Bayard Rustin

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Barack Obama

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Holly Cartner

The government's crackdown on civil society is unprecedented, even in Uzbekistan's 14-year history of repression since independence from the Soviet Union.

Ray Everett-Church

The government can't even claim that it's for national security. They're just using it to get the search engines to do their research for them in a way that compromises the civil liberties of other people.

Irving Thalberg

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Mavis Staples

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Charles Spurgeon

You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.

Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Mona Sutphen

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

Kid Rock

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

Benjamin Disraeli

At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists

Meister Eckhart

Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

Mary Pipher

Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."

Patrick McDonald

These are the kind of people we like to remove from society and we were very successful.

Elaine Stritch

This is for people who have dough. It's expensive. That's the way it is.

Shannon Sickels

This is for all the people who went before us and all the people who would like to come after us.

Rich Carnevale

This is going to be something Princeton people have never seen before.

Richard Power

This is a problem that not enough people really are clued into.

Thomas Miller

This is a perfect storm of relief obstructions. You have landslides, snow and no roads to reach the people way up in the mountains.

Robert Cendro

This is an unbelievable surface. People who haven't seen it or weren't sure what it was are going to say, ?Wow!' It's just incredible.

Mark Viator

This is a team sport. We need as many people there as possible.

Madeline Albright

This is a special time because of a lot of people traveling, so we thought that it was important. There are threats, and so that's why we think that is responsible.