Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Davis

Unfortunately this failure was a direct consequence of the government's chaotic asylum policy and its porous borders.

Tony Burke

I don't understand when there's excess capacity at mainland detention centers, why there's a need to take these asylum seekers as far away as possible from the best legal teams.

Thomas Fuxborg

He says he has lived for a long time in the USA, but does not want to say where. He has worked in Europe, but does not want say where and with what. He is not seeking asylum in Sweden but wants to go to New York.

David Blunkett

I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.

Antonin Artaud

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.

Ben Okri

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

Glenn Greenwald

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.

David Blunkett

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

A. E. Housman

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Irwin Rose

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

Dev Hynes

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Donald Trump

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

Anton Seidl

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

Morten Olsen

We have always kept the spot open for Jesper. Now he feels ready to join the squad and we are of course happy for his decision.

Omar Nelson Bradley

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Roger Baird

We have worked on golf courses around the world but found that working in the serene setting of the Barona Indian Reseration was one one of the most inspiring projects we have been involved with,

John Hackney

We just didn't manage the course very well. It's a mental grind and we didn't handle it very well.

David Jennings

We can send up a request and of course we would send up a request after speaking with the elected officials, including the sheriff. It wouldn't just be my issue I would take input from each of those people and if that is what they wanted then we would request it. But just because we requested it doesn't mean the governor would issue it.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Jason Calacanis

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Arne Glimcher

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Alain Wertheimer

I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.

Alison Bechdel

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Annie Besant

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Charles Osgood

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Shawn Roop

I've never spoken to her. We communicate with e-mail and faxes. That pretty much sums up what the Web can do for a company.

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Sam Dumont

We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.

Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Ken Sawyer

They stood under it as if it were a shelter.

Bob Davies

I think this whole thing was a trial by fire.

Dick Clark

What will we all do when the trial is over?

Charles Stanley

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Charles Spurgeon

Great faith must have great trials.

Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Bill McCollum

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Jane Austen

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Richard G. Scott

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Jon Oringer

I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.

Donald Trump

The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.

Deepak Chopra

Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging, and imbued with pure unlimited potential. Tapping into this potential is what enables us to manifest miracles.

Myles Munroe

You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential.

Leon Kass

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

Rajneesh

Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

Peter Kreeft

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Pema Chodron

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

Tony Robbins

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

Phoebe Snow

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

Alan Pardew

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

William Morris

We are potentially vulnerable in just about anything we do anywhere.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Alicia Keys

Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.

Alicia Keys

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

Amanda Hocking

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Amanda Schull

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.