Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Johnson

We're often kind and benevolent to senior executives who fail,

Bob Dozier

I just think it's destiny. God looks out for good people. Jerome is a good citizen, and he's a benevolent person in the community. It's destiny for him to start in Detroit and end in Detroit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

Eric Hoffer

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep

Jane Miller

Not only has it contributed from a financial standpoint but from a benevolent standpoint as well,

Tom Baker

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Atharva Veda

The one, who is benevolent and liberal enjoys peace, happiness and prosperity.

Ann Nocenti

Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.

Gavin Redknap

Brown will hope that his performance (on Wednesday) will help to change the public's perception of him from stern chancellor to benevolent potential future prime minister.

Shane Matthews

He demands a lot of the position, but being a quarterback, you expect those demands. You want that.

Matt Murley

He just demands so much from everybody. If you're not doing what he expects, he's going to let you know.

Caron Butler

He is the most effective, not when he's scoring, but when he gets other people involved. He demands a double-team every night. He did a great job of reading the situation and either going to the rim or passing it off. He's a superstar.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Tim Rattay

He rides them, ... He rides those guys hard, and he demands a lot, and it's good. Those guys are responding.

Joe Ross

He's a rock. He's our go-to guy. He's a tough, hard-nosed kid who's very, very dependable. He's willing to take the workload on. In fact, he demands to have the workload.

Dennis George

It is all symptomatic of the pursuit of the demands of the Washington consensus.

Patrick Craven

We support the demands of the people of Swaziland.

Joey Harrington

He has that credibility, having won all those years in San Francisco. He demands focus, holds us all accountable. The guy sees everything on the field.

Walter Savage Landor

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Thomas Jefferson

The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government

Arabella Weir

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

R. Robinson

The only time (the West) ... has been successful in tracking down despot money is when it's been too late, ... The Laundry Men.

Jay Lefkowitz

The United States has a tradition of being a refuge to vulnerable people seeking haven from despotic regimes, and we will do our part to help this vulnerable population.

Mike Crapo

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Max Stirner

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

John Stuart Mill

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Chris Matthews

Jacob just wasn't himself tonight. He's been sick and so we didn't start him, but I thought he could go in the second half.

John Demming

Jack himself has been working the phone lines and speaking with shareholders this morning. People's money is safe here, there's no question about that.

John Ridley

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

Jeff Holland

Joe has matured. He is playing for the team instead of himself and he has been terrific.

Carolyn Howard

He did everything he could to protect himself and come back safely - it just didn't work out that way.

Tony Benshoof

He did a video of himself wishing me luck. It was pretty cool.

Roger Williams

He can't survive day after day after day without some improvement occurring. He's keeping himself alive.

Terry Wilson

He just tried to wedge himself in where there wasn't room.

Dusty Baker

He knows himself and how much he needs.

Robert Winn

It is a little disappointing, ... That being said, there are others in development.

Genghis Khan

It is not sufficient that I suceed - all others must fail.

Tulin Mendoza

We can get anything really that others can't.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Kevin Hayashi

I haven't played that well in that tournament. And other times, others have played well. It's one I'd really like to win because it's the only 72-hole tournament we have.

Paul Morgan

If one of them does have it, it is possible that others do. So it is very contagious. They are being tested for that as we speak.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Adam Carroll

The instrumentation was a little different. A little more experimental this time. We had saxophone and trumpet and strings and piano. The other two (albums) I've done are more straight-up singer/songwriter. The others were real story songs and these were more poetic-slash-story songs.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Alejandro Fernandez

It's not completely to his liking, but what else can he do now that he sees I was right?

Jeff Lindsay

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Nate Burleson

It was tough for him. When Superman sees Kryptonite for the first time, it's shocking.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Richard Engel

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Vincent Gallo

I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day long. And I eat a lot of superfoods like goji, cacao and chia seeds, things like that. And I like unpasteurised milk of the goat and the sheep. They send it once a week from Pennsylvania, from the Amish farms, and I get it in Los Angeles.

Tori Amos

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

Vance Havner

Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

Samuel Johnson

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

William Blake

Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

Willard Van Orman Quine

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Set theory in sheep's clothing.

Saint Augustine

In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

Saint Augustine

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Jimmy Cliff

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.