Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Engel

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

Jana Peri

I think the best songs written are the ones that make you laugh or make you cry. When I perform I like to appeal to your ears, eyes and crotch. I want to hit it all.

Joe Nathan

I think it's the cardinal's vision and the pope's vision that it would be a center that would appeal to a lot of people. The hope was that it wasn't going to be 10 people giving millions each ... but millions each giving $1.

Lionel Jospin

We must go beyond the trial of strength, ... I appeal to everyone's sense of responsibility. The government wants a positive and speedy solution to the conflict.

Philip Shanks

He was supremely confident that he was going to win his appeal in the 6th Circuit and it looked very promising.

Travis Larson

I don't expect us to appeal this decision.

Noah Geary

I don't know what the basis of the appeal would be. There's nothing there to reverse the decision.

Mark Taylor

He has the Mr. Prospector/A.P. Indy cross that's worked so well. He's a horse I think is unique in that he's going to appeal to Americans and Europeans. He's got a real loose walk, and he looks like he could go either way, dirt or turf. But he's got enough hip and he's stout enough where he could be a Derby horse, too.

Bob Loevy

He has the middle class characteristics that might have appeal outside of Denver. He's not a member of a minority group. He has a background in business, and he's a fresh face.

Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Patrick Renn

He was facing a great number of years, regardless. But I think this does show some compassion on the part of the jury.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

William Sloane Coffin

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Walter Savage Landor

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

Rick Warren

The church must always show compassion, always.

Trent Reznor

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.

William Penn

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Kay Runge

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Marilyn Rush

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

Dennis McAlpine

It costs more now to go skiing than to go to Disney World. That's going to drive skier-days down.

Doug Jackson

In our business, managing your labor costs is paramount.

Kerry Smith

If there's just a handful of them and they all take five hours each, there's half a person a week that all of a sudden you have to hire. Everything that involves a person costs you money somewhere.

B. R. Hayden

The costs were greater than anticipated to the tune of, I would say, hundreds of millions, ... The slippages were actually more dramatic than the costs. As we slipped, the costs were pushed to the right.

Ethan Harris

You want to get your house in place before financing costs go up.

Bill Vernon

You've got employers who are facing the highest energy costs, the highest wages, the highest unemployment insurance, the highest real estate costs -- and to now put this on? You're going to be in a position where the job growth isn't there, where people aren't making a decision to grow their business.

Paul Taylor

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

Toussaint Tyler

He talks to you like a normal human being and tells you what he wants you to do.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Sun Yuxi

In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall development of China's human rights.

Adrian Molina

Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.

Stephen Evans

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Salvador Reza

The message is we are human beings, not criminals.

Thomas Gray

Their tears, their little triumphs o'er, / Their human passions now no more.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

Chris Taylor

The project includes signs of every possible type.

Skip Rutherford

The recipes are good, but the stories are also good, ... It includes all ranges of Clinton's life.

Chuck Hagel

Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know. You've got 90 senators out of 100 and that includes many Republicans opposed to it,

Chuck Logsdon

We have been negotiating for a process that includes some parameters that should keep us on that timeline.

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

William Gurnall

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

Philip Levine

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Ronald Reagan

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

John Dryden

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alexander Pope

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Sophocles

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Paul Weller

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Mark Leibovich

The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.