Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luciano Berio

Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

David Bruck

It is entirely fitting that victim survivors be heard in the criminal justice system, but a criminal trial is not an occasion for national grief and mourning. We need to separate national catharsis from the criminal justice system, otherwise we have the justice of the mob.

Marcy Winograd

Her voting record is primarily of support of the Patriot Act, suspending of due process, support for nuclear weapons, opposing the International Criminal Court.

Efraim Zuroff

His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.

Tom Gray

(His mental health history) suggests that his criminal culpability is materially diminished.

Kemal Saiki

Whatever semblance of political and or ethnic motivations disappeared, the main one is the illegal exploitation of resources and criminal enterprise.

Juan Morales

He was going to college. He was studying criminal law. He wanted to be a police officer.

Kevin O'Donnell

He has not touched in a criminal manner in his entire life.

Warren Buffett

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Vicki Culver

I think that this is entirely too much to take on for this organization. I feel that the rest of our programs will suffer.

Jean Chretien

I will fulfill my mandate and focus entirely on governing from now until February 2004 -- at which time my work will be done and at which time my successor will be chosen,

Tom Brady

I'd love to be here for the rest of my career, but it's not entirely my decision.

Jonathan Maberry

If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.

Jay Rockefeller

In other words, he's an entirely unreliable individual upon whom the White House was placing substantial intelligence trust,

Willa Cather

That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Justin Bocot

I talk to him. I tell him I know it's going to be hard the first two years fitting in. He was the star of his eighth-grade team. He's in the same spot as me. I talk to him about my experiences and tell him what not to do.

Amanda Crew

I had a hard enough time in high school, fitting in without having to keep up with Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook - all these ways you have to keep up your image.

David Lebryk

The image of a forward-looking Jefferson is a fitting tribute to that vision.

Carl Snowden

It just seemed a fitting way to pay tribute. Many people were surprised to learn, as I was, that there was no memorial to Dr. King in Maryland.

Barry Sternlicht

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

Joseph Cook

We don't really have the stereotypical coming-out stories this year, ... I don't know if I saw anything fitting that mold or not. If I did, it wasn't very good.

Grayson White

We try and do something aesthetically different every time. It seems fitting for us to be on stage in costume.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.

George Herbert

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

Richelle Mead

Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.

Rebecca West

There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

Richard Crashaw

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William Wycherley

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

William Shatner

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Robert E. Lee

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Samuel Daniel

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

John Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

Crystal Merillat

He knew that was me talking if he heard that.

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Van Jones

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

David Hudson

If you look at the national numbers, we're doing very well in our economy.

Al Nash

If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Eric Elliott

This is Casey's first Zone meet, and if she can rise to the occasion there is nothing stopping her.

Fran Clader

Everything the officers did in each of these occasions was right.

Max Lucado

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Robert Rodriguez

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Madeline Albright

These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo,

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Pete Sepp

No spending reduction is easy, otherwise they would have been done a long time ago.

Reed Hundt

Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?

John Banville

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

Richard Shelby

Otherwise the taxpayer is going to ultimately underwrite everybody's risk,

Hicham Guerrouj

Otherwise there is not much point in me going.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Joe Torre

You want to separate the left-handers or not? I don't know. I have not thought about it.

Kevin Loscotoff

It's really being tailored to serve the Marina area. Marina and Pajaro are really separate markets.

John Knowles

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

Seneca

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Sathya Baba

You are all separate beads strung together on that one thread, God.

Damon Lindelof

Those who survived are separated for the first third of the season.

Warren E. Burger

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Zacarias Moussaoui

I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial even with Americans as jurors,

Winston Churchill

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Zig Ziglar

By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch.

Susan McDougal

was not on trial here, only Mrs. McDougal.

Mark Rosen

It's going to be like the first trial all over again.

Lois Lowry

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

Adnan Pachachi

About Tariq Aziz, I don't know when and if a trial will be held,

Charles Stanley

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

Thomas Hardy

Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!

Margaret Atwood

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Kweisi Mfume

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

Joel Osteen

Be a victor , not a victim.

James Ragan

They're kind of a victim of their own success.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Robert Kiyosaki

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Clive Owen

I was very keen on playing a victim.