Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Elizardo Sanchez

We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

Nelson Peltz

The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock.

Jim Gibbons

Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend,"" but in this case a country.

K. A. Applegate

We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

Julian Zelizer

It's kind of a low-cost appeal to conservatives outside of Massachusetts. He's looking for things he can do to say to conservatives -- especially Christian evangelical activists -- 'Hey I'm with you,'.

Bill Scranton

Amending the state constitution may be the only way to prevent activist judges from destructively reshaping the centuries-old definition of marriage.

Ed Rendell

America has lost one of the great civil rights activists of our time. ... She did it with dedication, class, grace and dignity,

Roger Hickey

Americans United to Protect Social Security - which successfully mobilized to stop Bush's Wall Street Social Security plan - grew directly out of our work to build a nationwide activist coalition to oppose Social Security privatization. This new campaign, organized with a broader issue mandate, will build on and amplify the work of the Campaign for America's Future and many other groups around the issues of cleaning up corruption in government; health care; energy independence and the other 'kitchen table' economic issues Americans care about.

Benazir Bhutto

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Mathew Staver

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Nia Long

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

Dennis Hastert

We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people,

Christopher Dodd

We've got a very busy agenda at the U.N., it's going to be very difficult to get the job done. Let's get behind him, let him do his work I certainly want to see him succeed but I'm going to watch him carefully.

Newt Gingrich

Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years.

Tommy Thompson

As we all know, the issues that were prominent on President-elect Bush's campaign agenda are the issues that, predominantly, the Department of the Health and Human Services will help him tackle over the next four years. I appreciate the confidence that he is showing in me today,

Jeff Koons

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

Bill Lockyer

There is no question in our minds that the unidentified female is Laci Peterson and the unidentified fetus is the biological child of Laci and Scott Peterson,

Mark Hyman

Nutrients are not drugs and they can't be studied as drugs. They are part of a biological system where all nutrients work as a team to support your biochemical processes.

Barton Gellman

U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.

Michael Mueller

We're gearing up for Planning (Commission) now, ... We're doing a traffic study, a noise study and a biological study.

Madeline Albright

They must have been close to something on whether on whether biological or chemical weapons were used on prisoners,

Kari Stefansson

This discovery sheds new light on the biological causes of the disease. Importantly, virtually all of this risk can be captured by looking at a single-letter change in DNA -- ideal for the development of a genetic test for assessing individual risk and developing more personalized and effective prevention strategies.

Kari Stefansson

This discovery sheds new light on the biological causes of the disease.

Jonathan Tucker

It's very difficult to guess a biological weapons threat because of the huge number of genetic variations possible.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

Max Heindel

If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.

Natasha Trethewey

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

Barbara Wood

Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.

Shelagh Delaney

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Ai Weiwei

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

Douglas Johnson

Unless the Supreme Court now reverses the extreme position that five justices took in 2000, partly born premature infants will continue to die by having their skulls punctured by seven-inch scissors.

Ken Dryden

As kids we knew whatever Canada was then it would be far greater tomorrow. That is the Canada I see today. That was the Canada born into me. Long before I ever wore the jersey, I wore the jersey.

Andrew Jaquith

As PT Barnum put it, there is a sucker born every minute. I'm glad to see the FBI warning consumers.

Michael Franzese

The personal consumption component can make the Fed a little uneasy because people are still spending astronomical amounts of money.

Hayne Ellis

We're six months out so there are a lot of exciting things going on. Everybody has their own components and it's all going to come together very quickly.

Claudia Reid

What's not understandable is how important or unimportant the various components are.

Chris Naughton

Through evolution its key components continue to get smaller and more efficient.

Linda Ulrey

We're quite honestly in the very early stages, It is a very important component of our overall integration.

Don Gher

With Wal-Mart, the online component is a step that they have been taking gradually, but it is not a full-on 'this is what we do for a living' business. With Amazon, this is what they do for a living.

Bruce Green

Accreditation means a lot to the university. The law school is an important component of the university's overall plan.

Todd Brown

It's every independent pharmacist's worst nightmare. There isn't one component that's working. It's so extensive that it's hard to imagine it's going to get fixed.

Susan Lacy

American Masters ... I felt incredibly honored to be the first broadcaster approached. . . . We knew it was going to be an original film and a big film that had a lot of components to it.

Charles Spurgeon

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

Marvin Miller

We want to trap them to determine how many there are.

John Threadgill

We also say that their initial testing was flawed, that they didn't have the right personnel involved in the medical testing, didn't do the right test to determine if this risk was apparent, and it's something that they should have known.

Henry Samueli

I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

George Eliot

There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life

Lisa Kleypas

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

Maurizio Giuliano

Whether this looming humanitarian disaster will be averted, will ultimately be determined in major world capitals.

Bernard Pivot

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Edgar Degas

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

Susan Griffin

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Dora Murray

All ages, genders and ethnicities are welcome. If you love the theater, join us.

bell hooks

Patriarchy has no gender.

Barbara Bush

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Eleanor Smeal

I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

Noeleen Heyzer

UNIFEM is proud to have supported the Ministry of Gender and Development, and women's organizing throughout Liberia to reach this truly historic achievement.

Vanna Bonta

Thought has no gender.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Abner Louima

They said it was a homosexual thing. The cover-up started there.

Abby Wambach

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

E. O. Wilson

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Doug Stanhope

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

Amber Rose

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

Alveda King

In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

Stockwell Day

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

Todd Akin

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

Madeleine Stowe

As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

Jane Levy

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Mark Richt

about as pretty as I've seen. Maybe we should do that more often.

Juan Felipe Herrera

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

Sheryl Skolnick

It seems to be of some concern. Maybe you don't need the headache.

David Lipe

They played well. Maybe this will give those two some confidence.

Sean McCarthy

They should be very proud of what they've done. Maybe not satisfied, but proud.

Nancy Mitchell

This happened, so maybe something else can happen.

Ron Rivera

They thought they were better than we were and in some instances, some positions, maybe they were better.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Jim Hackett

This particular trail is very heavily used, and the resurfacing is warranted.

Timothy Wu

This particular subpoena does not raise serious privacy issues.

David Strathairn

This movie isn't out to railroad you toward any particular bias, and that's where I think its power comes from,

Phil Klay

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.