Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.

Valerie Jarrett

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

Robert Reich

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they`re not really the establishment. I can`t obviously speak for Senator [Bernie] Sanders or about Planned Parenthood. But what we do see, and we`ve seen for years in America, is that the establishment, that is, the big banks and the executives and the wealthy do support a lot of non-profits and make the non-profits basically walk to the tune of the establishment.

Robert Mugabe

Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

John Hammond

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

Dave Mitchell

I think it is a conflict to a lot of people. As far as perception goes it is a real problem.

Patrick Dougherty

There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent us from doing something that we think is the right thing to do, is simply not on.

Pat Walsh

The figure of 183,000 is (the commission's) upper-bound estimate of total conflict-related mortality.

Milan Kundera

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Alexei Malashenko

The Chechen conflict is spilling into neighboring republics, escalating the process of destabilization.

Alan Doss

The greatest danger now is that expectations are too high. The euphoria of the end of the conflict will soon be forgotten.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

Robert Browning

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep

Washington Irving

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

Walter Scott

All is possible for those who dare to die!

Ovid

If she is chaste when there is no fear of detection, she is truly chaste; she who sins not because she dare not, does the sin

Rachel Sklar

Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

Mike Colter

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

Paul Gauguin

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

Jim Lewis

That's his job, and don't you dare take that away from him,

Tove Jansson

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.