Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Rick James

Somebody told me it's the oldest legitimate black-owned business enterprise. It's pretty much the cornerstone of the black community.

Maxwell

Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

Eddie Davis

Now is the opportunity to have deeper thoughts on what her work has been after he died. Rosa Parks has passed. Now Coretta. What is evident to me is the number of distinguished black Americans who are dying. Hopefully, we will embrace their work and think of their contributions, They were major contributors to civil rights and to the dignity of all people in this country.

Mickey Rivers

No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name and a black man's third name.

Juan Williams

So much focus in the country is the impoverished minority community. But while 25 percent of the black community lives in poverty, 75 percent is outside of that. It doesn't always get in the news.

John Davies

Ten years ago when Dan Blue was speaker, he had $125,000 and everybody thought it was an outrage. Today, Speaker Black has over a million dollars, and no one thinks it's an outrage. It's gotten that competitive.

Diane Farr

Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Fawaz Gerges

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Hubert Humphrey

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Keith B. Alexander

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.

Calvin Coolidge

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Judy Martz

People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.

Pat Castillo

I got in deeper this time. I switched direction like I was getting a double. He had good defense, but I knew I could finish it.

Keith Whyte

Generally the deeper problems people have, the less they're influenced by game design.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

Mike Strong

We matched up well with them. We were able to push them back off that 3-point line and make them shoot deeper than they probably would have liked.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Joey Fernandez

The guys are doing real good. I'm a lot deeper on the guys side than I am on the girls side.

Daniel Briere

It seems like we're digging deeper and deeper into a hole. Maybe we don't feel the urgency to produce. It's not something we can let go anymore. You can lose two or three, but not four, five going into the playoffs.

Ricky Gervais

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Edward Young

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Bruce Catton

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Rumi

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Ravi Zacharias

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

Theodore Roosevelt

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Terry Pratchett

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Sherwin B. Nuland

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

Rick Carlisle

I don't think it shows much dignity to make excuses after you get your butts kicked. It was like they're everywhere and our feet were stuck in mud.

Eric Maskin

Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.

John Barrie

We're an institution that never has really embraced its history. We hope that everyone, whether it's students, faculty or alumni, will come away from this with a sense that this is an institution with a pretty profound history.

Robert Collins

We think it is wonderful that the public has embraced the project and wants to be involved.

John Abraham

He's our teammate. We're not going to down him. We're going to embrace him with open arms, no matter what.

John Anderson

People need to be prepared to embrace recycling, including for potable purposes.

Seth Landau

I would love for it to get really popular and for people to really embrace it.

Jeff Blauser

I still look at him as a player, so it was nice to see what he's been able to come in here and do. My hope is that our regulars here will watch, embrace and learn everything they can from him while he's here.

Carl Hayes

Willingness to embrace scrutiny from outsiders is a hallmark of well-managed companies. You don't invite Lincoln Almond into your house if you have something to hide.

Hope Solo

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

Caryn Jarocki

She does a lot of things on the floor that might not only be scoring. She's our team leader, she keeps the kids together, she helps them, she makes great passes. She does some solid things that might not be so evident when she's not scoring. But to me it's evident.

Eddy Curry

He's the leader of this team, and when he wasn't out there it was evident that we needed him.

Chad Beadell

We had great soccer at moments, but it was evident that we were pretty tired.

Gary Powers

He is so strong, and that was evident that last home run. He got jammed on the pitch and was strong enough to pull it out of the ballpark. That is good, hard work getting rewarded right there.

Mike Hoffman

He had a solid preseason, ... Teams got to see what he can do. It's evident by all the teams that have called. He just needs to be polished a little.

Debbie Allen

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Barry Bonds

As talented as he is, ... I don't think he'll have to make a lot of major adjustments.

Kofi Annan

as I do with the other 190 ambassadors. And we will welcome him at a time when we are in the midst of major reform.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Steve Brown

Quite a number of the signatures were not registered voters. You have a set of rules, and everyone should play by the same set of rules.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Vandana Shiva

The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you provide them with economic and environmental security, the population will stabilize itself.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Baldwin Spencer

5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fools are without number.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Nelson Mandela

which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.

Jean Nouvel

I like English parks.

Russell Brand

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

Bernard Baruch

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Maisie Williams

People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'

Don Cheadle

People saw the film and said, 'Wow that was terrible. I wish I had known.' Now you know.

Rodney Clark

People roll down their windows and say, 'Sorry for your loss.'

Armando Navarro

People respond to fear. They respond when their self-interests are going to be impacted.

Joakim Noah

People remember champions. That's the way it is.

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.

Pope Francis

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.