Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Martin

I would work for the abolition of animals. If Prof Aziz legitimately thinks otherwise then that's a defensible position because it was the law in this country to do it, it is the law in other countries to do it.

George William Norris

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Stanley Hauerwas

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

Wynton Marsalis

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.

Charlie Stenholm

The chief executive officer of the multi-million dollar Humane Society of the United States once stated that his personal goal was the abolition of all animal agriculture. I'm happy to say, he's lost a very important battle today, and animal agriculture won.

Tadatoshi Akiba

This Aug. 6 ... is a time of inheritance, of awakening, and of commitment, in which we inherit the commitment of the bomb victims to the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of genuine world peace,

Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

Pavel Krasheninnikov

Public opinion influences the matter a great deal. From the political viewpoint, nobody ventures to raise issues related to the abolition of the death penalty while terrorist attacks still happen.

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

George Herbert Mead

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Steve Collins

Gustav is a true master of the traditional repertoire; it's a real inspiration to work with someone who knows the repertoire with such intimacy. He's such a skilled communicator, and his conducting technique is unparalleled.

Joshua Bell

Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

Jay Garner

to conduct assessments of how to establish local policing, local security.

O. J. Simpson

I will not conduct my own fire drills

E. Hicks

He was suspended for tonight's game for conduct detrimental to the team,

Sheriff Haggard

He is a walking library. He used to conduct four-hour seminars, and you would feel like you have been there 15 minutes.

Dennis Kucinich

Recently, it has been reported that U.S. troops are conducting military operations in Iran.

Robert Hanson

He would read scores like most of us read novels. Even at the end of his life, when he wasn't conducting any more, he would sit down and read scores without any music going just hearing the music in his head.

Thomas Powell

Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and you have all you truly need.

N. T. Wright

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

Latin Proverb

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions

Richard Adams

There was just one woman. So she was just given a hard time, teased and not shown the respect of equals that she should have had.

Woodrow Wilson

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Cassie Johnson

We like to think of ourselves as equals out there. Our philosophy is simple ? be patient on the ice and have fun.

Roger McCarthy

Between the town and the resort, it really is a one-plus-one equals five relationship. I think that's why the relationship has to be symbiotic, and focused on the whole.

Ed Goren

Translation: Volume equals a seven-game series. ''Get us to Game 7 and we'll be in the ballpark. The last two Octobers, Fox has been the No. 1 network and we did it on the back of baseball.

Jess Grimes

We were lazy. We didn't come out ready to play, and Elco obviously did. Lazy feet equals goals for the other team.

Plaxico Burress

Just let Eli be Eli and he's going to be OK, ... Stop putting so much pressure on him and just let E be E. I've got a lot of faith in him. He's the quarterback of this team.

Mikhail Bakunin

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Atharva Veda

Have faith in Him; He will never give you up; He will guard and guide you until victory is won.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then, you can have peace and joy, whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.

Debra Roberts

God's got your back when you give Him your heart

Rick Bowers

He's just got ultimate faith in his shot. When he needs it, he can get it.

Eric Bass

It is a leap of faith for all of us,

Chris Byrd

To fight three times in three years is crazy. It has been disappointing to the point of sometimes you get frustrated and really just want to retire. I have been to that point, but God is faithful and I just keep plugging along. I just have to remain patient and fights will happen, but it has been disappointing.

Walter Scott

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

Mikel Haas

We've got to try and verify every one of those registrations. There's no way someone can get on the statewide voter file without it.

Helane Becker

I think that they will file before October 17 for sure. With oil prices where they are and big pension contributions due, and without higher airfares, Northwest had no choice,

Helane Becker

I think that they will file before Oct. 17 for sure. With oil prices where they are and big pension contributions due, and without higher airfares, Northwest had no choice,

John Whitaker

I didn't want to file this lawsuit, ... But all we got from the university was, 'Not our fault.'

Nancy Williams

I did not see itI would have had to have actually seen it to file a report,

Jon Stewart

I don't file reports anymore. I do movies,

John Messina

Henry and Pam were under the impression that if you spent less than $250, you didn't need to file a waiver,

John Hamm

He mentioned the file to me and I said minister on this file I can't tell you what to do. Do what you think is right.

Steve Johnson

The IRS position is that these folks have to include all $75 in income. (However) a lot of people 65 and over won't have to file income tax returns at all.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

J. J. Johnson

I think (the leaders) are there. It's whether or not they know how to do that yet is what we've got to find. I'm not sure they know who they are yet, so we'll see.

Andrew Barrett

What you're seeing is these old leaders, which don't have much more downside, come back in favor.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Abbott L. Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

Benjamin Raich

Having to brake or be slow to get a better start number does not make sense. Braking is not something a skier should have to do. It isn't part of racing.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Mike Vrabel

I think you could take that and turn it around to a number of positions,

Anthony Fauci

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Michael Barrett

There are no plans to do any of this, but we're monitoring the situation closely.

Tori Amos

What do you plan to do with all your freedom?

W. S. Gilbert

I prefer to say the plans will accommodate some big-box users.

Dick Vermeil

I never had any plans to send him out of here,

Mila Kunis

Always have a backup plan.

Kevin Reilly

It's not dead, but I don't have any plans on it.

B. C. Forbes

Plan your work - work your plan

Joshua Chamberlain

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Gil Reyes

It's just not in our plans yet to retire.

Ron Gardenhire

He did a super job. That'll be a plus for us.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Micky Arison

I think that was a big psychological plus for us.

Ken Hitchcock

It's huge. He's a point-a-game guy, a big-time plus player.

Pierre Charron

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

Shannyn Sossamon

If money is the only plus, I will always say no. But, if there's more, than I'm down.

Tim Tucker

They're used to winning. Plus they understand the tournament trail.

Tom Richards

This is the first time in three years we've had a jayvee team. It's been a plus for our program.

Mike McCarthy

Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the way I've always graded it.

Saul Alinsky

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Rick Warren

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Platt

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

David Platt

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Thorstein Veblen

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Robert Southey

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Mark Twain

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Publilius Syrus

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

George Mason

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Sally Roth

They are provided with that, other than that they have to come up with the rest.

Scott Laningham

They are actually providing the service; we just provided them the location.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Thomas Kelly

We provided about a quarter of the community's blood.

Rick Riordan

Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.

Mitch Landrieu

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

Nadine Gordimer

Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

Josh Billings

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

T. S. Eliot

The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

Rick Riordan

Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)

Roger Sherman

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

Cassandra Clare

Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245-

Chris Hardwick

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

Wayne Dyer

Be what it is that you are seeking.

Shunryu Suzuki

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Swami Vivekananda

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Luiz Scolari

We suffered a lot, and when it was over, it was over,

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

W. Somerset Maugham

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Khaled Hosseini

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Mark Twain

I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

Ned Vizzini

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

Martin Amis

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Katy Perry

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

Julie Garwood

When you brush your teeth, I'll squeeze the toothpaste.

Paul Valery

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

John Gardner

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

Carly Patterson

They shouldn't have to worry about toothaches or their teeth hurting. There are more things to worry about than your teeth hurting.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.