Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Doyle

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

Marjory LeBreton

There would have to be a compelling reason.

Janet Reno

that she is not compelled to force Juan Miguel Gonzalez to keep his son in the U.S. and indicated that she would do nothing to stop him from going home with his son to Cuba.

Ezra Taft Benson

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Lysander Spooner

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

Gloria Steinem

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

Alane Ferguson

What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there's nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It's the ultimate stakes.

Rick Harris

A flat market is normal during the winter months.

Spencer Roecker

Flat Rock is a good team. There's a reason why they're in the top one or two teams in the league every year.

Bobby Hauck

We just had our lunch handed to us by a real talented, well-coached football team. We couldn't handle their front four on defense. It starts with them. We just flat couldn't handle them.

B. F. Skinner

We went flat and started coasting after the 7-1 lead after two innings. But I thought we played pretty good for the first game of the season.

Mason Cooley

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

John Sevier

Should I be so happy as to merit your patronage, I flatter myself neither you nor my country, could have any occasion to regret.

Jean Paul

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

Janet Jackson

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Dan Leistikow

It's not for the governor to pick a number out of the air.

Chelsea Clinton

When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

John Ortberg

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

James Mill

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Dick Marty

All the indications are that this 'extraordinary rendition' was already known about.

Jodie Marsh

I am only known for my boobs and tats.

Benjamin Franklin

For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.

Don Cornelius

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Claude Chabrol

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law

Claude Debussy

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Tomi Taterka

People are talking about another problem in Argentina.

Lee McConnell

People are taking this storm quite seriously." ()

Dorothy Poindexter

People are sweet this time of year and it's great.

David Peck

People are surprised by my portion size and portion control.

David Mann

People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week.

Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.