Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Hancock

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Candace Cameron Bure

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

E. Hicks

You feel like a second-class citizen when you have the No. 1 offense and the No. 32 defense year in and year out.

Jason Chaffetz

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

Thomas Friedman

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Martha Plimpton

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

Kris Mineau

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions.

Wade Estep

Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a personal basis.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Bashar al-Assad

We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.

Bashar al-Assad

Many Syrians understand that the only way to protect your country is to live with each other with integration, not only in coexistence, which is actually more precise to call cohabitation, when people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.

Barbara Stocking

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

Barbara Stocking

Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a fast day, he feared to 'disturb the security which religion now enjoys in this country, in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.'

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

David Brodsky

Everything (entitled to the defense) is not given to us,

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Tom Daschle

We have not been briefed, and we have not been given any new intelligence information,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Thomas Sowell

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Tommy Shaw

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Spider Robinson

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

Silvia Cartwright

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

Shereen El Feki

Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Patrick Riml

We will see. She's on the start list. We still have to see how she is doing tomorrow.

Rashard Lewis

We showed some fight, but it wasn't enough. We need that from the start and not just wait until the end.

Sander Levin

We start from scratch. Everything has to be on the table.

E. B. White

What I first had to do was to start them thinking differently. They just didn't have a whole lot of pride.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Frank Robinson

One thing he has to start doing, he has to start being productive. He has to, because you can't keep going 0-for-3, 0-for-4, 0-for-4, 1-for-4, that type of thing, from the top of the lineup.

S. Hughes

I am speechless, honestly, I feel like I'm going to start crying.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

Adolf Hitler

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state.

Adolf Hitler

There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. (13th February 1945)

Adam Carolla

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

Angus Young

With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.