Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Garcia

The bottom line is they are just attempting to build a right-wing voter base in the state of Illinois, which traditionally has been moderate.

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

Christopher Bond

Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt to protect our market. In this case I believe that sound science dictates that it is time to open the border.

Kara Swisher

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Ted Cruz

If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

Walt Sanchez

We did a good job coming out of the gate, and held them to four field goal attempts in the first quarter.

Donald Anderson

We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the castle and some health-and-safety issues, but suggestions were made to resolve these and with a bit of goodwill and better joint working it could have happened. At the time, I don't think there was a meaningful attempt to do so but we need to ensure that these concerts happen next year.

Mark Fuhrman

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

Asa Hutchinson

These criminals are leaders and mid-level brokers of Internet drug-trafficking rings. They used the World Wide Web as a worldwide drug market.

Val McDermid

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

Rand Paul

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

Paul Miller

Nothing criminal occurred. It was a tragic accident.

Lucille Baur

Now that we have Mr. Short in custody, we'll investigate to determine whether or not he is linked to any other recent criminal activity.

Stan Lowe

From our perspective, what I think is important is the prosecution team, in conjunction with specialists from the criminal justice branch, are reviewing the decision and the proceedings. After that review, they will determine what action, if any, should be taken.

Charles Kelly

If (a criminal suspect) makes a million in drug money and plows it into a legitimate business, you can trace the proceeds through there; and once illegal proceeds are commingled with legal proceeds, it contaminates everything.

Frank Rich

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Elaine Vogel

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

Nancy Stewart

Homeowners who live here nine months of the year and go home to escape the heat of our summers are not tourists.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Jun Ishii

Koizumi's victory triggered a rally in stocks and fueled optimism about an escape from deflation.

Joey Estrella

That was big time. In that situation, I would have been happy to escape with two runs scored. That play held them to one and more importantly, it kept the momentum on our side.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.

Bible Bible

And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

Clint Eastwood

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Barry Bonds

Right now, I'm just day-to-day, trying to get through the rest of the season,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Edward Abbey

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Alexander Pope

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Dalai Lama

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

Ayn Rand

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Al Green

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

Charles Bukowski

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

e. e. cummings

in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing

Anthony Jeselnik

It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Anne Sexton

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Anne Sexton

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.