Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Rosen

To comprehend the distaste for modernism, it must be admitted at the start that the greatest works of modernism in all the arts are, much of the time, fundamentally disagreeable when first encountered.

Shayana Kadidal

We can file this aggressive motion because we have proof that the spying program is illegal. The bottom line is the defendants have incriminated themselves -- President Bush admitted that he authorized and oversaw an illegal and unconstitutional program.

Patty Clary

In this case we don't have to allege anything. ... The pulp mill already admitted violating (its) permits (by asking for variances). In federal law, (the industry) can't ask for variances unless they are violating the terms of their permit.

Michael Morse

I know what I did, ... I admitted it and I was punished. I was a man about it and I dealt with it. But now I feel like someone who committed a crime and did the time and suddenly gets a phone call two years later he has to go back to jail. It's not fair.

Lord Bingham

The issue is one of constitutional principle, whether evidence obtained by torturing another human being may lawfully be admitted against a party to proceedings in a British court, irrespective of where, or by whom, or on whose authority the torture was inflicted. To that question I would give a very clear negative answer.

George Chan

The children, who had succumbed to the disease are usually admitted under stressful condition, with neurological signs, while those who come early for treatment can survive.

Lin Yn-tang

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Viet Dinh

The current system does not provide a means to track the status of aliens after they are admitted into this country,

John Danforth

We are continuing to pursue our own antitrust case, which is based in part on the price fixing now being admitted by key members of the DRAM industry.

Ken Ham

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

Stephen Fried

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowed to try on the Crown Jewels. He was a great, remarkable man.

Kurt Warner

I was looking for someone that was willing to give me a chance to play the game the way I played again. He definitely allowed me to do that. ... It wasn't necessarily what he had done with quarterbacks in the past, although it never hurts to be a part of a team or with a coach that has had great offensive success and great success with quarterbacks.

Ben Wizner

Kidnapping an innocent man and sending him to a secret location to be tortured is not only illegal, it is immoral. We need a full and complete investigation of a policy that has allowed countless detainees, some of them entirely innocent, to be tortured in our names.

Owen Williams

Know your stuff. That makes it easier to avoid nasty surprises, such as a contract coming up for renewal with no clauses capping price increases in it, when you have allowed yourself no time to renegotiate anything.

S. Hughes

Here's a conference with the Foreign Secretary tackling some of the most controversial issues of the day and people aren't allowed to stay in their seats if they shout any protest, even restrained protest,

Tommy Amaker

He's a good basketball player, certainly he played very well this afternoon. I think that he was the catalyst that allowed them to get such a big lead early.

Lindsay Meggs

His performance was important because it allowed us to rest our pen and use those guys in the second game.

Karen Woodall

Historically, we're not allowed to have more than one migrant issue each session. So overall, we've done very well.

Kathy Acker

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Kathy Acker

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Kathy Acker

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Kathy Acker

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Kate Millett

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

Kate Millett

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

Junius

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Patricia Ireland

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

Julian Bond

Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things.

John Avery

I think it (ball control) was the difference in the game,

Walt Patynski

He controlled the top of the third. From the fourth through seventh innings, he was really on top of his game.

Mark Shaffer

Here we are, offering people a safe ride home, and we just don't have control of the situation to offer them a safe ride.

Gregg Brandon

He's doing a nice job with it. It can get overwhelming, which it's becoming. We have to manage that and make sure it doesn't get out of control and we're able to keep him grounded and focused on the task at hand.

Frank Beamer

I think it's got the makings of a heck of a Thursday night football game. I think they're better. They talk about they're back in the title hunt, and they are. They control their own destiny.

David Heard

I thought we really had control of the game. (North Medford) had some offensive rebounds in the second half that hurt us and they stepped up and made some big shots.

Steve Giambanco

I thought we really had control in that game.

Jim Calhoun

I thought we would eventually take control of the game, and Kentucky kept fighting back. That was not in the game plan.

Nelson Cundiff

I thought we were in control most of the night, but they were able to fight back.

Bobby Holik

Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful.

Michel Lu

It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Zora Neale Hurston

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

William P. Leahy

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Tim Curry

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Dean Bonham

The universe of people you can reach is much larger when your target is retail consumers.

Ben Bernanke

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

William J. Clinton

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

Samuel West

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Vincent Bugliosi

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

William Cowper

When was public virtue to be found when private was not?

Sarah Fielding

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Grant Thrall

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.

Cheryl Cook

It's a lot of work for the owner ? maintain it, keep it in pristine condition.

Bill Cline

It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Rocky Juarez

I think it's just a matter of time before I get a shot at a world title or an opportunity to be back on television.

Steve Parrott

I think it's a matter of, that's the market.

Charles Grassley

I think it's a matter of accommodating people who see unfair competition,

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Roger Gerlach

I just thought every year you were going to go to the state tournament, as if there weren't other teams out there that also want to go.

Jim Hood

In doing so, they have defrauded the state of Mississippi,

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Estelle

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

James Garner

I'll still watch even though Earnhardt isn't in it.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.