Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

Jose Vistan

Investors were relieved that contrary to expectations, Labor Day ended without any violence.

Robert Pastor

In the short term, there may be people who think that pushing democracy is contrary to our interests.

Samuel Coleridge

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

Marianne Williamson

The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.

Dick Marty

These two facts are significant because they indicate methodology, logistics and personnel for this kind of operation ? operations which are totally contrary to the spirit and the text of the European convention on human rights.

Jim Rich

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Carl Williams

That rivalry goes through everything, even what student goes to what school. Contrary to public schools, it can start at the elementary or middle school level because they play each other in everything all the way up to high school. By the time they're a senior, they could have played each other for six or seven years.

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Andy Long

I think it's a great move putting another person in there on the convention side.

Artur Davis

I think the convention is off to a wonderful start.

Tom Ridge

to date, there is no specific intelligence that tells us or indicates to us that the convention itself would be subject to an attack.

Lois Frankel

We look forward to having a great convention center,

Frank Fahrenkopf

He was somewhat surprised to learn that most of the convention space was also destroyed,

Kimberly Devlin

He will not be participating in the convention at all.

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Michael Long

If our party's convention was held next week, I think Spencer would be the choice.

Keith Williams

I'm not planning on going back. I was renting. I spent time in the (New Orleans) Convention Center. With all the lies we've had to deal with from that point until now, I'm not going back.

Ariel Sharon

I talked today to the secretary-general of the United Nations. I talked to every European leader about this issue,

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Zinedine Zidane

I think we have the team to go very far at the European championships. Now we just have to be ready on time.

Raul Gonzalez

It isn't true that there is an offer from Chelsea. There isn't even an offer from any other European team.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is likely that the European partners and also others will work towards a second decision, and I also think that is sensible,

Dick Marty

It is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least their intelligence services, were unaware.

Brian Tempest

It is just a modest acquisition. It is part of our overall European strategy.

Grant McCasland

Like most Europeans do, he shoots those 15-footers all the time. He stays after practice and keeps shooting it. Seemed all that practice after games paid off.

Dick Marty

Hundreds of CIA-chartered flights have passed through numerous European countries.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

Rick James

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Muhammad Yunus

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Susanne Bier

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Hu Jintao

It is only through the road of peaceful development that the progress of the human race and the prosperity of a nation shall and can be achieved,

Donald Schneider

I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet.

Pat Gillick

He's getting better. I thought this spring that he didn't indicate to me that he was that type of (one-dimensional) hitter. He indicated to me that he was a lot better.

J. Hoover

The (final) score doesn't indicate how much mat wrestling took place tonight. St. Joe's kept everything close. There were some really tight matches.

David Buik

The futures indicate a lower start with profit takers and scalpers to the fore.

Shawn Boyer

Don't be too specific about what you want to do. Indicate your interests, but let people know you're willing to try out different opportunities.

Chris Rupkey

It may come down to 59.5. This reading would not indicate a softer economy.

Sonny Jackson

All signs indicate that this was a suicide.

Alfonza Whitaker

There was no animosity, no arguing, nothing that would indicate ill-will between these parties. No intent.

Mark Regev

The repeated outrageous remarks by the Iranian president unfortunately indicate the real mind-set of the ruling clique.

Heidi Bayley

Not surprisingly, logistics become quite a big thing when you're working with ice.

Omar N. Bradley

Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

Kevin Szcodronski

The logistics are fine. The system is working, and people are registering.

Heinz Guderian

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Matthew Lloyd

The scope for consolidation in the logistics sector is quite strong.

Eddie Compass

We have our logistics in order and the patrols are going very well.

Graeme Souness

He will have his operation tomorrow and he will be out for three months.

William Patterson

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

Maurice Luque

That's the end of the search, unless we get a missing-person report. Then it would be more of a recovery operation than a rescue.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dale Timmermann

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

Charles Collins

Operation and maintenance of the water and wastewater systems have essentially been abandoned.

William Patterson

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dale Timmermann

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Gerald Myers

It is pretty unique. They probably have all the Texas Tech tapes, and know what the different personnel does.

Chip Hester

They're starting from scratch on defense, so we don't have any film of their personnel playing that defense. We do have an idea what they'll do, but we know we'll have to make some mid-game adjustments.

Paul Davies

I don't think you can shut down all three of us. If it happens, somebody (else) has got to step up. We do have the personnel to step up and score for us.

Markku Niskala

If we don't get money, we must withdraw personnel and slow down the reconstruction of houses.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Richard Hooker

Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

Richard Dawkins

Scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Neal Shusterman

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

Alberto Ramos

The two experiences are completely opposed. One is textbook on what to do with a commodities windfall.

L. Ron Hubbard

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

Joan Didion

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Lorene Scafaria

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Ricky Gervais

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Dylan Thomas

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Nik Rapelje

(Interstate) 70 is usually worse, so (U.S. Highway) 6 is standard. But if 6 is totally clogged you can always go Colfax.

John Donaldson

I'm totally psyched. This is a new day in Over-the-Rhine.

Michael Leunig

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

Marguerite Moreau

I'm from Newport so yeah, I totally surf.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Ian Ritchie

The Championships will be totally unaffected and there is no need for concern.