Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Kennedy

There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for chief justice, ... I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

Bobby Martin

She's been my chief clerk for the past 17 and a half years. We've had a great relationship of working together and as for as I know, we've never had a cross word.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Horace

The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself

George Bernard Shaw

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player

John Gresham Machen

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

Arlen Specter

the chief justice is not going to leave, because I think that every day he goes to work knowing he has very important work to do.

Ron Reier

The chief isn't making any commitments, not making any promises and is leaving his options open.

James Doyle

the chief inspiration for the soccer complex for which you are considering a name.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Steve Bender

I was told that they wanted to head in a different direction, which was pretty funny.

Liz Davis

I thought it was one step in the right direction. I and others need plays that are meaty and controversial. We need more than mainstream theater. Something challenging, that makes us think about issues.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Todd Elmer

The Fed may become less comfortable offering guidance on the direction of interest rates. The market is going to watch to see if they remove 'measured.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Rick Sherlund

The macro economy in the U.S. is moving in the right direction, but it is taking longer to gain traction in the tech sector.

Tim Cranton

This was a pretty astonishing number for us. We knew that it would be a high volume, but this was an even greater volume of spam than we had anticipated passing through one computer.

Richard Holbrooke

the U.N. is being tested in Kosovo as it has never been tested before, with responsibilities greater than ever before.

Jim Webb

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Tom King

With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.

Rig Veda

There is no religion greater than truth and a truthful person knows no fear.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Doc Hastings

We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

Desmond Tutu

And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.

Desmond Tutu

There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

Thomas More

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

Thomas Paine

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

Samuel Alito

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.

Samuel Alito

I am deeply honored to have been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court. And I an humbled to have been nominated for the seat that is now held by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Tariq Ramadan

History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Kenny Leon

encompasses all the strength and power that theater has to offer.

Amy J. Berg

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Christopher Paolini

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Raquel Zimmermann

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Robert A. Heinlein

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Steven Hatfill

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Jennifer Aniston

I just stay fit and in shape.

H. G. Wells

The future is the shape of things to come.

Robert Collier

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.