Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd Jones

A whole series of tests will occur. The Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating with the Department of Agriculture, with surveillance activities through the fall to collect samples from birds taken during banding to hunter- harvested birds. It will be a very comprehensive testing program.

Peter Yesawich

Age-appropriate activities and attractions are very important to this group of family travelers.

Michael Schneider

Activity is the mother's milk of the securities industry and activities of all sorts was very strong for these reporting periods.

Gary Bardini

Right now, things are performing as expected. We don't have any reports of significant flood-fighting activities like we embarked on three months ago.

Loren Mooney

San Francisco is a classic bike town, and it is beloved by everybody. In our online reader poll, more readers chose San Francisco than any other city but Portland. There is a culture of cycling ? there are bike clubs, there's the messenger culture and there are long-standing community activities centered around cycling.

Heather Jensen

Sandy has been completely submerged in community activities since he moved here. He's a real hands-on leader, and done a tremendous job as chamber president ... with a knack at bringing a lot of volunteers together.

Judie Brown

Schools without Fear; Group Activities for Building Community

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.

Yasser Arafat

complete and immediate cessation of all military activities ... especially suicide attacks.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

Ibrahim Jaafari

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

Rafael Cruz

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Roger Pilon

There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day.

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

Raila Odinga

The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward.

Thomas Sowell

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

Robert Anton Wilson

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Steve Cohen

The Breeders' Cup is one of the most anticipated events of the year. From the track, to the jockey's room, to the paddock, we will offer unprecedented coverage of the Breeders' Cup with our team of horse racing experts.

John Rose

Radio will also be crucial. There will be 13 radio specials that will cover all formats.

Jeff Fager

People don't want to leave it. They want to stay, even though covering Katrina has been so difficult and painful in so many ways.

Steve Finley

Defensively, it's easier here. They pull the right fielder over to cover the gap, and it makes the field smaller.

Kevin Thomas

Cold.. Extremely cold.. Don't leave any unprotected skin.. You cover everything up.

Lawrence Wilkerson

The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office,

Dan Hill

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

Porter Goss

the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up.

Deion Sanders

I've never been in a position where I blitzed on occasion, but now I can drop into coverage or blitz.

Neal Katyal

radically extended legal precedents set during conventional wars.

Dee Bell

Actually, it was our second unit that extended the lead midway through the half.

Gideon Meir

A process that the Israel government ... took upon itself in order to extend our hand in peace to the Palestinians. This is what Israel is willing to do in order to live in peace with the Palestinians.

Gregory Olsen

The Russians recently extended the seat. I just fit in,

Bill Clinton

These projects are going on very well, I think you just need to extend it, keep serving for more people,

Michael Gartenberg

This is a question of extending their reach.

Charles Rule

All a temporary restraining order gets is a 10-day order so all the parties involved can make their arguments, ... It can be extended to 20 days, and within that period the government can try to get a preliminary injunction.

Joseph Quinlan

You pray for miracles, ... Life is special. You should do everything possible to extend a person's life, but there is a time for each of us to die.

David Petraeus

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.

Kevin Good

When the spread is wide, packers are forced into the market and producers have leverage. When the spread narrows, packers have the leverage.

Heather McAdams

That was just to get our intensity back, and not settle for low-percentage shots. Because of those strict rules, it forced them to start looking for each other again.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Daryl Hall

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Randy Dunn

In one sense, we have now a much better picture about (how) various groups of students are doing, because this law has really forced us to peel back and look back at performance for various groups of students.

Bernard Haykel

Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other &#8212 it's all a form of torture.

David Murphy

I just forced myself to relax today. I've been very tense up at the plate.

Rick Barnes

I keep harping on turnovers. They forced some of those, some they didn't.

Gene Rasmussen

The girls responded well and forced turnovers in the second half.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Brad Thor

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Bob Enos

We raised $12,000 to get the dog, because insurance doesn't pay for that.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Joe Schmidt

We're paying police professionals to baby-sit rich kids.

Dale Friedman

We simply have got to start paying for people to do that kind of work,

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Spike Milligan

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

Mila Kunis

Always have a backup plan.

Kevin Reilly

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

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.

Walter Kirn

My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

Al Franken

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Stephen Jay Gould

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Adolf Hitler

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Adolf Hitler

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Arthur Conan Doyle

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

Arthur Koestler

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo . But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.

Arthur Adamov

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

Ayn Rand

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

Bertrand Russell

I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religious concept.

Brad Pitt

I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it u2014u00a0hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

Brad Pitt

I've always paid attention to religion ... because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Britney Spears

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

Elizabeth Bowen

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Matt Giampietro

There is so much respect for that name.

Michael Nutter

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.