Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Jeremy Corbyn

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.

Tadatoshi Akiba

Our world is still darkened not only by the direct violence of civil wars, but also by innumerable other forms of violence.

John C. Calhoun

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Barack Obama

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Rand Paul

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Charles Hodge

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

Carlo Panunzi

We are seeing heated demand for long products generated by the civil construction sector. This year should be the fourth-consecutive year we will see record consumption.

Donna Favors

When we show concern for the happiness in others, we ultimately enhance the happiness in ourselves.

Mike Flowers

Naturally, it hurt our pocketbooks. But we knew it was coming, so we saved some extra funds. Our concern now is how quickly it will come back.

John Gannon

I have a concern that density may not be as good a fit for Boise.

John Morse

That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away. Now, one of two things could happen. Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.

Bonnie Herzog

The concern was with $3 billion, the flood gates were open. This helps to alleviate some of that concern.

Chuck Hagel

the concern I always have in these matters as well as others when it comes to power in government is too much power concentrated in too few hands.

Arlen Specter

You can't open up the paper or turn on the TV without hearing (about) public concern about the Patriot Act,

J. J. Johnson

We still have a concern about having such a big portion of the park occupied all summer long by the stage.

John Murray

It's not going to be a concern now. With the rain, we won't be issuing any red flag warnings in the next few days.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Ai Weiwei

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

Andre Maurois

Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Nuno Bettencourt

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Richie Sambora

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.