Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wu Bangguo

We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them.

William Butler Yeats

I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.

Wyndham Lewis

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

Dom Capers

I have no doubt that this team's going to hang in and keep fighting. They're disappointed and frustrated, but they have to put blinders on and prepare for the next challenge.

Joe Moore

I like him. It's just that he has this blind spot when it comes to corruption. I don't think he ever realizes the seriousness of it.

Jalal Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Luigi Pirandello

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

Michael Freeman

You can't stop people from innovating, and I don't see that our screen readers will be able to keep up with that. I still think it's worthwhile for a blind person to try a career as a programmer, but I do fear how well that person will do in the long term.

O. Singh

The blind and the ignorant perform all sorts of ritualistic actions, they are in love with duality.

Publilius Syrus

The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted

Dag Hammarskjold

The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

David Horowitz

Terrorists and totalitarian radicals are lionized as fighters for social justice. Israelis and Americans are condemned as Nazis.

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

Margarita Chaves

His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.

William Wilberforce

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Carl Jung

But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.

Carl Jung

He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.

Willie Nelson

We may have been poor, but my sister, Bobbie, and I were taught to hold our heads up high. Whether you're young or old, when you meet someone, you look 'em in the eye and speak up so you can be heard. When you look a person in the eye, you're not trying to hide who you are, plus you get a pretty good idea of who they are.

Christy Romano

I have good eyes, so I usually play them up so they stand out. I do a liner around the top of my eye and half way into the bottom.

Hank Williams

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

Chuck Price

I don't know that we're seeing eye to eye on value. I think we're close.

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

Michael Bamberger

That didn't occur to me. I was still in my reporter's mode. I wanted to talk to her first.

Richard Greenberg

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

Rob Morosi

We have work going on practically everywhere. It is a worry. It?s a worry for the motorists. It?s a worry for the workers. It?s a worry for their families. Every day they step out the door, and you just don?t know what going to occur out here.

Spencer Grammer

When I went to college, it didn't even occur to me that I should be in a sorority at all. I went to school in New York City, where you don't need to be in a sorority to go to a party!

Abdel Khaddam

But, of course, at no time did it occur to me that Syria could assassinate Hariri.

Harrison Ford

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Malcolm X

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

George Gilder

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

Noam Chomsky

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

Paul Krassner

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Ayn Rand

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Jane Elliott

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Wendell Berry

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Mahatma Gandhi

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Pope Francis

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Quentin Tarantino

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

Terry Pratchett

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Mustafa Akyol

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

Takeshi Kitano

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

Jay Watson

It's very nice. Whenever its available, we can play.

LaDainian Tomlinson

It is what it is, ... I just try to do what I'm able to do whenever I'm called. I can't go over there and try to holler at everybody, tell them, 'Give me the ball.' You know that's not me.

Eileen collins

I wish I could come back up here whenever I wanted.

Michael Redd

He pretty much just heckles me whenever we play.

Francis Lawrence

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Alice Waters

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.