Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Elizardo Sanchez

We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

Nelson Peltz

The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock.

Jim Gibbons

Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend,"" but in this case a country.

K. A. Applegate

We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

Julian Zelizer

It's kind of a low-cost appeal to conservatives outside of Massachusetts. He's looking for things he can do to say to conservatives -- especially Christian evangelical activists -- 'Hey I'm with you,'.

Bill Scranton

Amending the state constitution may be the only way to prevent activist judges from destructively reshaping the centuries-old definition of marriage.

Ed Rendell

America has lost one of the great civil rights activists of our time. ... She did it with dedication, class, grace and dignity,

Roger Hickey

Americans United to Protect Social Security - which successfully mobilized to stop Bush's Wall Street Social Security plan - grew directly out of our work to build a nationwide activist coalition to oppose Social Security privatization. This new campaign, organized with a broader issue mandate, will build on and amplify the work of the Campaign for America's Future and many other groups around the issues of cleaning up corruption in government; health care; energy independence and the other 'kitchen table' economic issues Americans care about.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

Louis Bacon

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

Michel Onfray

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Morgan Wootten

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise

Alan Tonelson

We are looking to Congress, ... It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.

Felix Herrero

We are at their side as they suffer. One cannot forget what happened and one must remember to ensure it does not happen again.

Nicholas Kristof

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

Michael Leunig

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

Bob Stewart

About every 25 years, people get excited and get on the civic bandwagon. Then they get complacent.

John Mendel

For 2006, the Civic underwent the most radical transformation in its 33-year history. It is a cornerstone of the Honda lineup, and we're delighted that Motor Trend has recognized the new levels of styling, performance, technology, safety and value that characterize the new Civic. Customers have validated our direction too, as evidenced by strong sales of the new model.

Steve DeLuca

It's their own fault. We went through this last hurricane (season). Last year, it was our civic duty (to help). This year, it questions common sense.

John Clarke

It's the idea of mixing uses in close proximity, so you can get to the store from your house on foot, or on a bicycle, or in a short drive in a car. There will a post office, town hall, and other civic uses all within the perimeter.

Gary Ruskin

The names of our civic places reflect our values and our aspirations, ... It's wrong to sever the link between civic names and civic virtue.

Wole Soyinka

an opportunity for Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military, and an opportunity for the international community.

Raymond Flynn

speak out on important issues in the civic arena.

John Lilly

We were an extremely young football team last year and played some freshmen, and we were hoping that would pay off. But we elected to just not talk a whole lot about last year.

John Tippett

At a minimum, we will would like to see some new opportunities for regional transit to be presented to our elected officials.

John Edward

a strong network of elected officials in South Carolina.

Ismail Haniyeh

This is an elected government and it must be given all the authorities and they should not be touched.

Paul Hewitt

For Eureka, things we can do (are) speak one-on-one to our neighbors and friends (and) to our elected officials (about risky drinking).

Stuart Pearce

This must be the only industry in the world where you can have a total novice, who has not even been in management for one year, being touted for the top job in English football. Would we say the next prime minister is going to be someone who has not even been elected as an MP (lawmaker) yet? No.

Rob Schneider

There was no task that he wouldn't take on. When negotiations would roll around, people would make sure that Martin got elected to that committee. They wanted his experience, his intellect.

Marsha Blackburn

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

Tom Reynolds

It is reprehensible that some elected officials are looking to score political points in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation.

Lisanne Altmann

I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change.

Tony Shalhoub

She's like Judy Holliday with a real edge.

Floyd Abrams

Judy was very reluctant to seem to be putting pressure on a source to release her to speak. And at the time, it would not have solved the other issue.

Linda Eder

Judy is one of the reasons I'm a singer in the first place.

Bill Keller

Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.

Rudyard Kipling

For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady / Are sisters under their skins!

Robert Bennett

I don't want to represent a principle. I want to represent Judy Miller.

Allison Tolman

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

Jay Rosen

I just don't think there is any more Judy Miller credibility,

Tom Swan

For him to officially get in, we're going to need to recruit volunteers from every town.

Lance Davids

It pretty much is just official now. It wasn't like this wasn't going to happen.

John Hill

There's been no official confirmation that anything was going on.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Jake Halpern

Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.

Rochelle Cancienne

The students will be contacted by the schools in regard to registering. At registration they will be told their official start date.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Dave Calloway

Now, Chris, I want to officially let you know you are officially welcome in Avon pick-up games.

Derek Jeter

The season doesn't officially start till you get this one out of the way. Fortunately, we were able to sneak this one out.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

Alan Watts

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

Alan Bennett

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

Alan Arkin

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.

Akshay Kumar

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Adriana Cruz

These are all things that can be turned into a brand.

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Jay Wright

At the end, he was just exhausted. I turned to him and asked: Have you got one more in you?

Steve Burgess

To be honest, I thought this should be a very comfortable win, and that's how it turned out.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.