Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Eric Brown

Do you wish to challenge the legality of the extradition warrant issued for you by the governor?

Mark Frauenfelder

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Larry Walker

It was an ugly night, ugly swings, ... Tonight, like every night, was a big challenge for me. Fortunately, if he threw 100 pitches, that was the worst pitch he threw all night, and fortunately it was to me.

Sheryl Crow

It was a challenge in more than one way. Not only was I not working, I was in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language, and I'm with somebody who's new to me, and I experienced a lot of vulnerability ... (it) was a challenge to my ego, and in the end, was kind of exciting.

Annette Lee

It was a challenge because we wanted to be sensitive to their own personal issues without exploiting them in any way.

Guus Hiddink

It was a huge challenge because we had not that much time to prepare.

Eric Schmitt

These companies suffer from a lack of distribution. The challenge is who is going to introduce these companies to users.

Nitin Gupta

These devices do a lot, but the message gets muddled. What are they for? The big challenge is to create a reason to watch video on a tiny screen.

Mark Ferrulo

Any pro-environmental piece of legislation has a hard road to travel in this Congress. It's not going to be a walk in the park, not with current leadership in some of these committees.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Jim Hunter

Back then, they (Congress) were targeting NASCAR as a waste of fuel,

Jim Horney

Despite what you may hear from the administration and from Congress, this CBO report does not provide evidence that the tax cuts are working and that they can be extended without worrying about large deficits.

Ron Bonjean

The Speaker thinks it's a good move on their part so that Congress can properly review this deal.

Jim Matheson

Now more than ever it's not the time for Congress to be raising its pay,

Ted Cruz

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

Peter Swire

Right now, there's no one at home at the White House when it comes to privacy. There's no political official in the White House who has privacy in their title or as part of their job description. Congress should take the lead here because this administration has not.

Ken Johnson

Perhaps Nancy Pelosi will now realize that Billy's decision to retire from Congress had more to do with getting well physically than getting well financially.

Patrick Lang

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Kevin Keegan

The tide is very much in our court now.

William Shakespeare

A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse.

John Cornyn

the most qualified nominee who has ever been put up for a Supreme Court vacancy.

Mark Twain

A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty

Adam Feeley

So we have an interesting situation which the court must resolve.

S. Hughes

So therefore, if they were really bad, the court could put them in jail from one to five years.

Rayne Reber

Now, as seniors, we're so used to playing with each other, we know what each other is going to do. We know our moves. That helps on the court when we look for each other.

Bob Grant

The taking of a human life is the ultimate crime. Irreversible. It does not matter to the victim of a murder whether the person holding a gun is 16 or 60.

Brandon Sanderson

It's like a banana farm for guns!

Ayn Rand

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

Benito Mussolini

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Benjamin Franklin

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.

Al Capone

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

Al Capone

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Gore

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

Jan Brewer

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Waisale Serevi

I've spoken to all of them and they're interested to play in Melbourne.

Hugh Johnson

The worry is that the lid, or the cap, on interest rates is now off.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Janet Eissenstat

This is not your father's bank. There is a whole new range of products out there that earns interest and still keeps money safe.

Fay Guarraci

The way we measure their interest is they go back and revisit the male after they've just had some sexual interaction with them.

Graeme Smith

That's why I say we can learn a lot from the Aussies about how they all work together in the interest of their cricket, even though we don't always like what they're saying.

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Barbara Jordan

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Brian Jacques

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

Jane D. Hull

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Cardinal Richelieu

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Calvin Coolidge

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

John Lurie

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

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.

Tommy Docherty

Personally, I am very, very sorry we have come to this. I suppose it is another sign of the times.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

French Proverb

The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.

Mark Proctor

This is a terrific signing for us as we look to consolidate our play-off position.

Cathy Austin

Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.

Vince Cable

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

Lisa Kleypas

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

Michael Taylor

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

Michael Kelleher

She's registering to vote, ... It will be the first time she votes and she said she wants to be the first person to sign my papers.

Jane Goodall

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Caprice Bourret

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

Alana Stewart

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

Bobby Seale

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

Eckhart Tolle

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

Bill Schwartz

We've had no violence here. Let's keep it that way.

Barbara Bush

As if we don't have enough violence on television.

Cory Doctorow

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.