Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction

Ahmed Qurei

The French and Palestinian doctors have concluded that there was no known cure for the illness that afflicted the president,

Lucinda Franks

They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever.

M. Wolfe

That's an awful lot of people to be afflicted by the disease of compulsive gambling. Wouldn't you call that an epidemic?

Nelson Mandela

All South Africans would want me to take this opportunity to convey in person our heartfelt condolences at the tragic event which afflicted your family recently,

John Galsworthy

And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Jim Palmer

We started this thing (the Josh Palmer Fund) to help people who were hurting and were in need of a helping hand. There's nobody hurting as much in this country right now as those people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Although our primary mission is to help young people afflicted by cancer and ultimately to find a cure for cancer, these people need help right now and we're going to do our best to help the American Red Cross help them.

Barry Ritholtz

When you stop and think about it, if the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody ... in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages.

Bible Bible

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Sigi Schmid

Joel is a versatile defender who was here for our mini-camp in November. He can play centrally or on the right and is a young player with great potential.

Willie Savannah

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Jeff Zucker

He didn't know if the man would back up and try and run him over, or whether he had a weapon, so he defended himself and hit the gentleman two times. Unfortunately, they were fatal blows.

Alan Cook

He likes to dribble a lot, ... so I told our defenders to just stay on his back, don't let him turn. Make him play the drop ball, and they did a good job of doing that.

Dick Morris

her right foot is nailed to the floor in having to defend the Iraq war.

Travis Niesen

I think the hardest thing is to come in and learn all of our team principles on the defensive end. He's done a really good job and shown he can defend at this level, which means you can play. It doesn't matter if you can make shots if you can't defend; being a shooting guard at this level, you can't play.

Andrew Park

It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended our country,

Mark Johnson

I was disappointed about the way we wrestled today. We had five guys in the finals and didn't get it done. We seemed to be satisfied with qualifying for nationals and not defending our title.

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

Will Durant

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

Sarah Rees Brennan

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Woody Allen

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Sandra Cisneros

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.