Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Wood

There is no favoritism when it comes to run blocking or running routes, ... If all I'm going to do is run-block ... as long as the team wins, I don't care.

Marty Simmons

The guys worked really hard to get out and contest shots, and we did a much better job of blocking out. We got off to a good start, which is always important. We're just happy to come away with a win.

Jose Gomez

Their linebackers did a good job of blocking the middle, so we had the option to kick it out,

John Base

The city told me I need to move my boat. I don't know why. My yard is well maintained, and I am not blocking any sidewalks.

Paula Berg

It's not as simple as blocking out New Orleans.

George Gwozdecky

Stripping the puck, blocking shots and making quick passes up ice are more the things he brought to our program.

Robert Lambert

After the storm passed, those trucks were completely blocking Causeway Boulevard. The storm threw them like toys.

Kirk Hinrich

It's real frustrating. I got two blocking calls I didn't think were blocks. It's just frustrating, that's all. I really don't have anything else to say about it.

Jim Noonan

It's hard to get rebounds when they make all their shots. We actually did a good job of blocking out, but everything dropped through the net.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jaspher Ombati

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Frederick Chiluba

It is important to state that the Zambian Constitution guarantees that the High Court of Zambia has unlimited and original jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings under any law and such jurisdiction and powers as has may be conferred by the constitution or any other law.

Todd Akin

It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as they choose.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

Bruce Anderson

Hawaii is leading the country in development of offshore aquaculture. It's been done well here, with minimal environmental impact.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Tom Williams

I agree, ... In rural Kansas, in the event of an emergency, people aren't going to look to an emergency management coordinator. They're going to look to the sheriff's department for help.

Mike Herndon

I'd like to double-bunk inmates, where it can be done safely, and take in as many (state Department of Correction) inmates as possible. I made a large sum of money (for the county) when I was sheriff.

Laura Blackann

He has not been subpoenaed nor has he been contacted by the Justice Department or the FBI.

Ron Suskind

He got the documents from lawyers at the Treasury Department when he made a request after he left.

Thomas Powell

Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and you have all you truly need.

Marlon Devonish

To come back from the World Championships and equal my PB was very, very pleasing,

Floyd Reese

I think all things being equal - speed, size, strength - you're always going to lean toward those players who are more tested,

Ron Rainey

I think it was very equal out there today. It was really a one-goal game and I think we played that way defensively.

Lewis Sharp

It has an equal value to the Hamilton Building.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Steve Mitchell

He has a ways to go (to equal SLM Big Daddy), but they're a lot alike, ... Don has said the older he gets, the more he reminds him of 'Big Daddy' - temperament, they're all business. This one's a little more lovable.

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Kevin Kinel

I think its finally getting to the fun time. It's getting to the point to where we'll find if Mat is up to the challenge.

Art Hogan

I think the dollar's recovery has a huge impact on the market, when you look at things like gold, which is getting tattooed today, ... I also think it's important psychologically, like when oil finally peaked in the mid-50's.

Jeff Gordon

He wasn't real happy with me, but we finally worked it out.

Albert Camus

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Sam Rockwell

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

Maria Corbalan

I'm happy. I'm very happy that it's finally going to be done.

Warren Moon

I'm as happy for the guys as if I had played in the football game. I'm so relieved. This franchise has been trying for so long and to finally get there is great.

Greg Olsen

I had a minor medical problem and they said I couldn't go. It took me a year to get well and then I finally went into space. That should just let you all know that you should never give up.

Frank Thomas

I'll finally get some real work in. It will be great to see live pitching for a change.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Jon Karkow

I think we're at the point where it isn't an issue now.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Laura Tyson

I think that's understood as a policy issue in China. I don't think it's understood as a policy issue in the United States.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Jennifer Pralgo

The rainfall is going to be a major major issue and it could intensify because it is moving so slow.

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.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Van Jones

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

Van Jones

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

George Charamba

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Elliot Morley

In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.

Joe Nathan

It's really nice to get out there the next day. You don't want to be sitting down there thinking about it any longer than you have to.

Rick Jones

I have the same feeling, you know. We're taxpayers providing a service to the needy, and somebody's taking advantage, and that is wrong.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.

Valerie Jarrett

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

Robert Reich

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they`re not really the establishment. I can`t obviously speak for Senator [Bernie] Sanders or about Planned Parenthood. But what we do see, and we`ve seen for years in America, is that the establishment, that is, the big banks and the executives and the wealthy do support a lot of non-profits and make the non-profits basically walk to the tune of the establishment.