Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jaspher Ombati

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Michel Bonnardeaux

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson

Diane Davis

In our lawsuit-happy society, focusing on personal responsibility as a way to protect our civil justice system is critical. We look forward to hearing Col. North's perspectives on how this philosophy is relevant given current affairs.

Gary Chaison

In organizing itself I see a tremendous increase in the reinventing of the labor movement as the heir of the civil rights movement. I think it's the recasting of the labor movement in a way that I haven't seen in many years.

Helen Clark

In particular, I would like to pay tribute to Mr. de Mello. He was one of the finest international civil servants,

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Phil Goff

It is important in the current situation for steps to be taken to resolve the long-running public sector strike, which has contributed to this tension,

Roger Ashby

I will be talking to the current squad individually over the next few weeks about their futures and once they know, I will make it public.

Ron Goodman

Right now, the current thinking is that it will curve to the north about 300 miles east of Florida.

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

Ken Scholen

If you owe money on the house you can use part of your reverse mortgage to pay off your current debt.

Guy Dolle

In the current conditions, the offer will not succeed.

Gary Anderson

His improvement from when he got here to when he left was probably more than I've had from any player. His dedication to working and lifting weights was incredible. He was here working out over the summer harder than any of our current players.

Frank Martin

We are focusing on maximizing our revenue streams through product innovation,

Hanna Salonen

I went (back) to Finland, and stayed there and the only thing I was focusing on was how I wanted to come back.

Zina Garrison

I am focusing on the team I have, in my mind they are the top team.

Tom Julian

It's really about the simplicity of the approach, focusing more on the quality of what you give Mom.

Mo Cheeks

It's something we talked about where we could start over and kind of forget about the things that happened the first half, and just start new. That's what we've been focusing on, trying to look at this as a new season and just move past the old one.

Mike Matheny

It will be nice when he returns. Any team would like him in the lineup. But we've been focusing on winning games, and other guys are playing. It would be an insult to them to be thinking of him.

Brad LaBruyere

It's not so much how good my stuff has been. My location, that's kind of what I've been focusing on.

Kathy Irving

It's a big thing to be able to tell people and show people what they can do. Sometimes people spend a lot of time focusing on their disabilities and not their abilities.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Dwight Freeney

I was like, 'What, we signed a free agent?' ... It's big. I think the owner (Jim Irsay) really sees the opportunity to move forward here and make that push.

Joey Porter

I would think somebody would say it, but I wouldn't think he would say it. He's too soft to say something like that. He's going to have an opportunity to back up his words and I'm going to have an opportunity to back up my words. It's something I'm looking forward to. I'm ready to get it on.

Jessica Wilk

JMU is a big in-state rivalry, and we're looking forward to getting back at it and getting on the right side of the win column.

Johnny Damon

I was watching the Olympics and the ice skating and I saw the pride they had for their countries. That was great. That's what I'm looking forward to.

Sara White

He was so looking forward to this moment. The greatest thing I can say about him is there is not one negative thing that can be said about him, not one. He was a man of integrity.

Jackie Moore

He was rusty, ... But velocity-wise he was about 91 (mph). He just pitched an inning, but he's out there and healthy and that's a step forward for him.

George Michael

He was really looking forward to training his son to be a fireman.

Paul Tergat

I have got the Olympics out of my mind. I'm looking forward to the race because I haven't competed in a marathon since.

Gilberto Simoni

I am looking forward in joining this team,

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

J. Horton

He's given me all the passes in the world. The least I could do is give him one once in a while.

Ron Gardenhire

He's given everything he has, and that's all you ask.

Denny Green

He's been given a lot of God-given talent, but he's really motivated. He likes to be the best. It's how he sees himself. And he's got an unusual body. He's strong as hell. He's one of the strongest guys in the league.

Ed Orgeron

He was picking it up and was given just enough time for the routes to come open. I don't know if you're going to totally stop him.

Jim Kaat

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

Anne Mills

I can feel your sympathy. But seeing is what will impact you, even more than hearing the stories.

Charles Schumer

If there ever was a time when the hearings are going to make a huge difference, it's now,

Don Lindburg

I'm not hearing anything like that, and I would be very, very surprised.

Mike Tranghese

I keep hearing the question, 'Are we going to survive?'

Larry Holmes

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

Kevin Hall

All we're hearing from the House leadership is 'no,' and that's not a solution. It is bewildering that there are those in the House who would remove tools as opposed to offering constructive solutions of their own.

Graham Henderson

The CRTC did not have a policy hearing where everything is on the table,

Brad Richards

It shouldn't be like this. We know what to do and what to do to make it happen. We are all sick of hearing about it and talking about it. We have to do it. We have to win the battles. We are talented enough to win the puck and hold the puck.

William Blackstone

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

Saint Augustine

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

Wole Soyinka

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

Wole Soyinka

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

Zora Neale Hurston

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Zack de la Rocha

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

William Allen White

Peace without justice is tyranny

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Jacques Maritain

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Derek Luke

Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!

Muriel Spark

...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...

Keith Carradine

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

Kate Chopin

She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

Richard P. Feynman

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Umberto Eco

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

Reid Hoffman

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

William James

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

William James

I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.

William James

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Steve Young

I just throw that brace on there, it's supposed to protect the knee. I just feel that the little brace, when I put it on, it's impenetrable.

Tim Powell

It's kind of scary, because, I mean, I don't have any idea how to protect myself.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Louise Hay

Love surrounds me and protects me.

Madeleine L'Engle

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Cary Leahey

I don't see anything in the speech that is relevant to the near-term outlook.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

William J. Clinton

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

William J. Clinton

When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.

William J. Clinton

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

Sarah Palin

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Richard M. Nixon

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

Vance Havner

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

Valerie Jarrett

A new era of responsibility is here.

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,