Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aretha Franklin

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

C. L. R. James

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

Jonathan Brown

To be honest, I am surprised, ... But they've been around the kids who have been state champions. They're still trying to pride themselves on the defenses of the past, and they're looking to be better than the class before . . . Our ultimate goal is to get the goose egg and if we don't get it, we at least want to get the offense in position to score.

Jeff Silber

This new student number is like your freshman class as they work their way through these programs. That will help your total enrollment going forward. It's a strong precursor.

Ian McAllister

This new investment, better working practices and infrastructure improvements will make the Ford plant at Dagenham a world-class facility,

Mike Cunningham

We should be in the top three or four in the conference, definitely the top five. The freshmen class last year was very, very good. I?m not worried.

Gary Cannon

There have been people who've been a little shaky in class, but I gotta tell ya, they really step it up (on graduation night).

Jay Wright

Villanova fans have seen a lot of great classes. For our staff, this class is going to always be special to us, no matter what they do this year. They really helped us establish what we wanted to do here: re-establish the tradition here at Villanova.

Matt Kilcullen

We are very pleased with this class of players. Each fills an important need for our team, and all three are very talented. Most importantly, they will be tremendous additions to our university.

Carl Hiaasen

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Dick Cheney

I understand how tough it is. You make it abundantly clear how tough it is. I hear it from our troops. I read the reports every night.

Paul Fishstein

This is going to be a new exercise for most people. There's not a clear and consistent understanding of what a parliamentarian does.

Charlene Zettel

This is even more evidence of the clear link between vehicle pollution and respiratory illness. We must do everything we can to take high-polluting vehicles off the road.

Hank Sheinkopf

This is another clear signal that George Pataki is positioning himself on the national stage to run for president.

John Klippel

This is the first time we have evidence that a drug can actually lessen joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis. It hasn't been clear that drugs can do this.

Tim Bennett

This is not a food safety issue. I am concerned that consumers are not getting a clear message that poultry is safe to eat.

Peggy Palter

This is really the first major move that Lacy has made. It's really a starting point. He's been very clear -- we are looking at our lines of business.

Robbie Robinson

We're waiting on a few final documents before it's ready.

Li Keqiang

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Adam Ereli

The needs are great, and there are ways to do this, to ensure that those needs are met.

David Suzuki

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

Jacques Chirac

Faced with this situation, we must act, ... What's urgent is to ensure the safety of people living in precarious housing.

Monica Johnson

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

Antonio Guterres

The government of Sudan has a responsibility to ensure security for all of its citizens,

Edmund Phelps

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Mary Williams

We urge all young people travelling to university this month to ensure that their vehicle is not overloaded,

Adam Hamilton

Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Charles Spurgeon

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Charles Spurgeon

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Edward Norton

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Vandana Shiva

If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Satchel Paige

Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

Denzel Washington

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

Billy Graham

No nation is ever taller than when on its knees...

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Aldous Huxley

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Corey Lessard

We want to be physical with them. And we want to make their goalie move from side to side and try to open him up.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Louise Hay

Love surrounds me and protects me.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Renee Fleming

I'm not a reactionary.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Tommy Shaw

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Rand Paul

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

Rand Paul

Well, there’s 10 — there’s 10 different — there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions and I’m absolutely in favor of. One deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.

Rand Paul

The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.

Ted Olson

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

Michele Bachmann

People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George H. W. Bush

one of the worst humanitarian tragedies of our time.