Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin O'Malley

When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.

David Lowe

A couple of bad cases have been picked out to drum up support to abolish youth rates though it is clear the stories are exceptions, not the rule.

Malcolm Muggeridge

For as we abolish the ills and pains of the flesh we multiply those of the mind, so by the time mankind are finally delivered from disease and decay - all pasteurised, their genes counted and re-arranged, filled with new replaceable plastic organs, a

John H. Reagan

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.

Steven Aftergood

As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, ... The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency.

Edward Kennedy

architects of the right's ongoing strategy to dismantle Roe v. Wade and abolish a woman's right to choose.

Jeremy Corbyn

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.

L. Neil Smith

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

Garry Kasparov

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

Katsuya Okada

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

George Kafkarkou

It's not just about the end-user's needs, but also about the needs of the IT professionals who service those end-users, whether internal IT staff or an outside solution provider.

Robert Cannon

It's an internal matter. We're waiting for the investigation to be completed.

John Farahi

As internal auditor, your job should not be what management tells you.

Andy Fisher

This is not the first time this has happened. It may be some kind of internal bureaucratic problem.

Elliot Mincberg

The whole idea of the internal memoranda is to try to get a more unvarnished view of what Roberts said.

Laila Robins

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Jan Chipchase

At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.

Vincent DeMarco

We don't really know where they are. We don't know their internal numbers.

Eddie Izzard

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.

Lee Scott

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

Lisa Morton

There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.

Rebecca Jones

They (the Optimists) have this organized so well. They really have this down.

Calvin Klein

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Jann Wenner

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Clare Short

We have reports of systematic and organized use of rape,

Dolores Huerta

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Richie Havens

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

Charlie Chaplin

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Dodie Smith

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Robert Kennedy

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

Chris Hedges

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Ken Follett

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Orson Scott Card

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

R. Robinson

We have got be more ruthless in our approach,

Kevin Russell

Telstra has effectively put a time stamp on CDMA in Australia.

Rob Thompson

We just wanted to do it our own way, put our own stamp on it,

Rick Riordan

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

George Bernard Shaw

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

John Rhys-Davies

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

Friedrich Schiller

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Robert Plant

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

Virginia Postrel

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Yehuda Amichai

And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones.