Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giraldus Cambrensis

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

Ellen Key

On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women's social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity - among other reasons, because woman's sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions.

David Byrne

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert.

Andy Xie

The policy is still very defensive. The government doesn't know what's going to replace the economic activity that is being moved to China.

Paul Sheard

The pickup in domestic demand seems to be starting to boost activity in the tertiary sector.

Andrew Mitchell

The pickup in construction of new homes is good news for the Australian building industry, pointing to firmer activity ahead.

Richard Donnell

The pick up in activity levels and prices over the final quarter has created optimism that values will continue to rise slowly over the year ahead. The recovery in London is set to continue and spread to the Southeast over the year.

Huda Zoghbi

The overall picture we have now is that glutamine expansion causes some aspects of the pathology of SCA1 in part by enhancing the activity of the domain that is outside the glutamine repeat.

Norbert Ore

The overall picture is one of continued softening in manufacturing activity during the month of December.

David Kay

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

Daniel Leefson

The analysis they got does not include what we're getting.

Mark Donahue

The analysis says it's not happening. In Chicago, people are not being stopped based on race.

Ken Wright

The analysis said a new interchange wouldn't draw traffic away from Route 18. Many people would probably still use the Route 18 interchange even if there was a new interchange nearby.

John Logan

The analysis reveals great variation within New Orleans, but there is a general tendency for blacks and poor residents to have greater odds of being in harm's way, because they lived in less desirable, low-lying areas.

Tom DeLay

The analysis provided the commission by the department of defense about the national homeland security value of the base was seriously flawed.

Susan VanEpps

The analysis of the research showed that what distinguishes Loudoun County from competitors is the county's veritable treasure trove of diverse assets including one of the largest international airports in the world, one of country's most educated workforces, thriving rural businesses, entrepreneurialism, and a beautiful community of rural landscapes, historic towns, and well-planned suburban developments.

Richard Aboulafia

The analysis of alternatives did nothing more than endorse the very concept of the obvious.

Gary Becker

The analysis assumes that individuals maximize welfare as they conceive it, whether they be selfish, altruistic, loyal, spiteful, or masochistic. Their behavior is forward-looking, and it is also consistent over time.

William Pepper

He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

Nik Nanos

The announcement of the criminal investigation . . . made what was a relatively comfortable (Liberal) lead into a neck and neck race.

Gloria Feldt

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.

Jeffrey Toobin

Michael Jackson is one of the dozen best-known people in the world, and he is facing extremely serious criminal charges. That is a very big news story.

Allen Lichtenstein

You just don't have criminal trials dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct, intentional or unintentional.

Rush Holt

We have an oversight responsibility regardless of what criminal investigations may or may not be under way.

Andi Mallarangeng

The president also wants to make sure that our legal justice system, our criminal system is working, that they can work and function as it should be in investigating this case.

Eric Holder

I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money.

Eugene Fidell

It does look like there were some major gaps in the earlier investigations, which were not criminal investigations incidentally.

Todd Rundgren

I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.

Yayoi Kusama

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

Gregg Brandon

We could never establish any momentum. Their offense kept us off the field for long stretches and we were never able to sustain anything.

Dale Lennon

We'll put a full rush on the punt team to establish protection and put a little stress on the snapper.

Karl Hobbs

We wanted to go into Pops and establish the inside position. We competed at all times, and at times our offense was magnificent.

Jim Amormino

With the gunman dead, we may never be able to establish a motive. Of course, only he knows that. We'll try investigative procedures. Again, it's going to be difficult. Once we look into his mental health, that may provide us some insight into what happened.

Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Brad Eldred

I thought it went OK. I got my feet wet and was able to kind of establish myself a little bit. I did some things well and found out I still have some things to work on.

Nick Hardwick

We have not made any assumptions and for the sake of Jean Charles' family, officers within the MPS and the public at large, will try to establish the truth in an impartial, proportionate and timely way.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

William Bratton

We have a very robust counter-terrorism operation here in LA, similar to New York and Washington because we are always a prime target,

Shamil Basayev

live participant of that operation who is ready to testify.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Graeme Souness

He will have his operation tomorrow and he will be out for three months.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

Steve Sell

We have the potential to be terrific. But how can you predict?

John Shelton

We have the potential for some big problems, but we think right now it's just potential.

Rick Bohlander

We've got potential to play with any of them. We've just got to play a whole lot better than we did the other night.

John Montgomery

I think this has the potential to be one of the sexiest projects we have seen in years.

Mike Keenan

We've talked so much about the potential of our young players, ... This will make the team a better team.

Viktor Vekselberg

We have a very interesting and very serious potential international partner.

Mickey Williams

We have a ton of potential, but we also have a ton of injuries.

James Armstrong

I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.

Lori Enright

Her scoring potential would be a lot higher.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Anne Brown

We are not seeking a totally safe world, but we are doing what we can to prevent those really serious injuries.

Shoichi Nakagawa

We have to start over from zero regarding preventive measures.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.

David Suzuki

You are what you do, not what you say.

Al Yankovic

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

Brian Tracy

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

John Hendrick

Where he's being proactive is with leadership. We're better offensively with him.

John Washington

I think the contractor's very proactive with this. He's really ready to go. He wants to go to work.

Drew Bledsoe

It seems like we're a little reactive right now. We need to be more proactive in our approach.

Jay Wright

I thought it was a terrorist attack, ... I had no idea what was going on.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Bill Ayers

Terrorists destroy randomly.

Bashar al-Assad

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

Asa Hutchinson

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

Alexander Torshin

That could have prevented the terrorist attack. But they weren't fulfilled.

D. J. MacHale

I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.

Donald Trump

It just seems terrorists have an open blanket.

Donald Trump

We should turn cyber warfare into one of our greatest weapons against the terrorists. And they have to know its coming because right now, they know nothing about us.