Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger King

You can't be an activist because Delta will be worthless pretty soon,

Judy Outlaw

The unfortunate thing has been this activist group has had so much media exposure that it's been untruthful, and we need to get behind us and start from square one with the media and with this group.

Israel Singer

Andrea Bronfman was a pillar of her family and the entire Jewish community. She was an activist as well as a philanthropist.

Charles Munger

The cause of reform is hurt, not helped, when an activist makes an idiotic suggestion.

Bernie Sanders

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

Howard Dean

Each of their surprise disclosures has contained additional reasons for concern about whether Roberts would use his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to be an activist for an ideological agenda or an advocate for Americans' personal freedom.

Jerry Kilgore

Everyone's entitled to representation, but not every activist defense attorney is entitled to be governor of Virginia.

Guy Groux

This is a very activist union movement, ... Because they can't mobilize people within companies, they often have to go into the streets.

Coretta King

The nation has lost a committed civil and human rights activist whose life and contributions have made a significant difference.

Eddie Martinez

He was able to talk his way out of being arrested in Louisiana.

Osvaldo Puccio

He can only be arrested if a legal warrant exists, and such a warrant can only be issued by a court that is requested to do so. That request is being made now by the foreign ministry, based on the note from Peru.

Trevor Noah

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.

Yvonne Martinez

He's got quite a history and has been arrested numerous times for drug trafficking.

Jacques Diouf

Later, security forces surrounded the building and stormed (it), ... They arrested the man. But unfortunately, we have now a situation with two of our staff dead.

Hector Flores

The issue now is how we educate people about what is available and steer them to the right programs where they won't be turned away and where they're not going to be arrested either.

Detlev Mehlis

The investigation is not over yet. We feel we took a very important step, but these five suspects we have arrested in our assessment are only part of the picture, so we will have to further investigate and we do think more people are involved.

Tom Carson

The investigation began when one of the victims was arrested for prostitution by Hartford Police. The women involved were all from out of state.

Tela Mange

The ferry is considered to be an extension of the roadway, therefore we can do traffic enforcement on the ferries. We have also arrested a number of people for DWI.

Charles Schumer

I hope and pray that the president chooses to unite rather than divide; that he chooses consensus over confrontation.

Joyce Maynard

I have not chosen to live a particularly private life myself, I respect the decision of any man or woman who chooses to live such a life.

Carla Gugino

I'm really fascinated by someone who chooses worst-case scenarios as a profession. Someone who obviously thrives on crisis,

Source Unknown

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

Mick Johnson

It's just not the way that this administration chooses to do business.

Tim Smith

seems so basic, but unless you require it, there will be that small minority that chooses not to for whatever reason.

James Grant

What the MOVE index measures is the level of complacency or confidence in the interest rate world. The market chooses not to see much risk in anything.

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Rose Rosetree

Nobody pushes Sonja around. And she's not just a survivor; she chooses to claim her power with real grace.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Walt Miller

He knows how his mother was, he'll make suggestions and pass on information. He has quite a following there.

Tony Bui

Harvey kept going, 'Who's that guy following you around?,'

Paul Anderson

He regards it as a very sensitive matter and will be following up when he returns.

Jim Knight

It could have been even higher. We had some come in on that Friday (March 31) that we didn't process until the following Monday.

Sheldon Jacobs

The people that are still in (the Steadman funds) just are totally unaware. They are not following their investments, and that's the first rule of investing -- to follow it.

Theophilus London

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

Lynn Franco

We think a lot of that is reaction to the spike in prices at the pump following Katrina.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Andre Previn

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

Anna Kournikova

Notice how I didn't say our former USA colleague.

John Hanson

It's great having a former Governor step up -- we're honored to have her as part of the team.

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Ivan Golde

There is a potential suspect, but it's not a former client.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Doug Justice

Bilbo's a former quarterback and I've seen what he can do over the years. He's a special player. They've got great athletes. You can get hit with Daniels and Johnson and then they come with Bilbo. They've got a multi-headed attack.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Jill Koenitzer

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

Patricia Mercado

What women have gained is one thing. How we have been received is another. It's not with open arms.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Eddy Cue

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Sarah Robinson

I have gained back much more than what I lost in Katrina.

Peter Guralnick

It's like he gained a lot from his popularity, but he suffers a lot for it too,

O. Henry

It took us three games to get one (good game), ... It really did. At times, we looked as young as we really are. But by the third game, I thought they had gained some experience.

Jimmy Brown

It is probably the worst-run jail I can remember seeing in my 30 years of practice. It's not working. It's broken.

Russell Brand

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

Will Ferrell

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

Tupac Shakur

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

Ian Angell

If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.

Nicole Richie

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

Nick Offerman

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

Anita Elberse

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Jacques Villeneuve

He should give up motorbikes and join us.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

Sean Connery

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Trip Hawkins

You'd be surprised at how many women are joining those leagues.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Mo Rocca

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

Alex Jones

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Janet Reno

There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare,

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Holbrooke

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Ruben Blades

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Richard M. Nixon

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Ulysses S. Grant

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect,

Ulysses S. Grant

The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

Marcus Trufant

We're not worried about getting the big-time stuff in the papers and magazines. We're just trying to win ballgames.

Umberto Eco

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Richard Karn

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

Robert Scheer

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

W. P. Kinsella

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

Rod Taylor

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

William Faulkner

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Will Ferrell

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

Jeffrey Passel

Once they come in, they are actually reluctant to leave.

Ian Baker

We were very reluctant to make the move, but we had no choice.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.