Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Greene

I think it is important to realize that the City/Agency obligation to pay severance could arise even days after the contract commences if Mr. Hanson's employment terminates for any reason.

Robert Seiple

It brings to mind all the potential cases that may arise there and in Iraq, in the future ? which takes it to a whole new level.

David Newman

There is a fundamental reason why this separation should be maintained: if it is not, there can arise a tyranny of one sect, one code of belief. And in such a tyranny, religious minorities will suffer institutionalized degradation of their integrity.

Jeff Miller

It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.

Dave Hall

Laundry is another issue to arise in the near future as these folks need clean clothes ... and as we get more people in there will be more of a demand for resources. A lot of these folks who've been in motels since Saturday are running out of money.

Makeda Kefale

There is an attitude that it's this no-holds-barred, test-your-limits situation. Unfortunately, this culture has arisen around it to create a problem.

Johnny Nelson

He was in sorrow with me. And just as with Lazarus, Shirley will arise on the last day. All this came to me on the flight back, up 36,000 miles in the sky. And I recalled that she'd read her Bible more on this trip than she had in a long time, and she was enjoying herself, so all of that helps my heart.

Risa Ferman

I don't believe it would arise to the level of drag racing because I don't think the other car was participating.

Donald McKay

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.

Jackie Johnson

Kids may think this is a prank, but we are taking this very seriously. This is a serious violation of the student code of conduct.

Patrick Burns

I think it's a code of conduct issue,

Paul Burke

I think it comes down to code enforcement.

Lew Platt

Harry was really the staunchest supporter of the code of conduct,

Stephen Fry

There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

Randi Osberg

What we have done to our existing rental code is we have provided for a rental license.

Patrick Doyle

We try to enforce the dress code all evening.

Shanen Boettcher

We're on a path to be code complete by the end of 2005, so we will see that likely in the next release of the CTP.

Kit Bond

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

Rose Bird

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Robert Moses

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Warren Buffett

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

Warren Buffett

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

William Wallace

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

William Hague

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

Henry A. Kissinger

A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.

Paul Robeson

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Martti Ahtisaari

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Paul Evans

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

Richard P. Feynman

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Richard Dawkins

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

Richard Dawkins

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

Werner Heisenberg

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

Ed Mathey

After this weekend you will start to see some separation in the standings.

Pema Chodron

You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.

James Madison

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

Louis D. Brandeis

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

Buddy Bell

There's not a whole lot of separation between them, to be honest.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Maximilien Robespierre

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Luiz Scolari

We suffered a lot, and when it was over, it was over,

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Woody Allen

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

William Nicholson

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

Will Durant

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Sarah Addison Allen

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

Samuel P. Huntington

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

Rebecca Wells

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Albert Einstein

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

John Paul Stevens

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.