Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Cody Provenzano

North and South, it's all these people causing drama, going over to fields and doing things. We basically just want to beat their butts.

Simon Crisford

Normally we'd think between 10 and 12 Group Ones in a year was pretty good. Group One victories are basically how we judge ourselves, as winning the best race is what we are about.

Michael Herring

After the first seven minutes, we basically played them even. There are no moral victories but I liked the fact that we didn't back down and we didn't go away.

Brian White

A fund could have the greatest track record in the world, but if the portfolio management team that posted that track record is no longer running the fund that history is basically irrelevant.

Tom Adams

After winning three out of five years, Brad Carlin, the guy who came up with this, was basically kicked out of his pool. I think that may be a hazard of this.

Kurt Barnard

The name Burlington Coat Factory is a misnomer because they carry a full line of fashion apparel, including coats in the winter. It's basically an off-price operation. You get good value there, very good value.

Ray Brown

Actually, I was starting to feel like my abilities were best suited at tackle, because I'm not as fast as I used to be. As you get older, it's a leg-strength game. I'm able to sort of trick the team and trick this league that I can play inside. That's basically what I got by with - a little guile, a little veteran savvy, and also leaning on my teammates.

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Andrew McDonald

Saturday is going to be a landmark day in the civil rights movement in Connecticut.

Fawaz Gerges

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Charles McCarry

I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.

Michael Ward

It would be good to recognize someone who's been instrumental in getting the civil rights movement going in Nashville, ... It's a great way to honor someone who's made a difference.

Brian Sullivan

It would depend on how an indictment is structured and whether a civil remedy is pursued instead of a criminal remedy. It all just depends.

Ron Kind

I understand that some people firmly regard gay marriage as a civil right while others find it antithetical to their religious or moral beliefs.

David Gudgel

The way it works is the civil service commission interviewed all the applicants and they had a matrix they used where they scored the applicants from highest to lowest,

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Jere Adcock

The most impressive thing to me about him now is how many yards he gains after contact. He doesn't give you a big target to hit, and he's exceptionally strong.

Japan Times

Puffy Gains Real-Life Foothold on 'anime' -crazy U.S. Market

Sarah Bolton

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

Juvenal

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Democritus

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

John J. Mack

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

Angel Mata

We've had some pretty good gains in a lot of sectors lately that need to be adjusted. The encouraging thing is we're not seeing a lot of volume, so there aren't a lot of sellers out there.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Rick Carlisle

Anything involving speculation and 'what's up' can be saved for another time. If there is a trade at some point, you'll hear about it.

Lea Stokes

The state doesn't know the answer. I know people don't want to hear that, but we just don't know.

B. F. Skinner

The thing I learned most from New York was to compete. I didn't want to hear anything, and I knew if I won then nobody could talk to trash to me. If I win then I'm in control.

Stuart Appleby

I wanted a second opinion. That's what I pay him for, I guess. I knew where I was. I just wanted to hear it from his lips.

Peter Steinbrueck

I wanted to hear what people had to say here today.

Paul Giamatti

The most surprising thing about it is I thought he's going to walk in and it's going to be like these stories you always hear about De Niro where he does 45 takes of walking through a door,

Michael Drake

Some people don't want to hear it. They are going to interpret it as they want to see it.

Author unknown

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

Donald Trump

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It`s not a silent majority, it`s really a noisy majority.

Andrea Dworkin

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

Alfred Rosenberg

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

Aldous Huxley

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

Princeton Lyman

What it has not been able to do, really, has been to stop the movement of people and weapons down the coast.

Dorothy Height

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Donnie Yen

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

Deepak Chopra

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.