Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

George Edward Woodberry

The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.

Richard Dickson

We do not yet see an end to the pattern of aborted rallies and reactions that have characterized market action over the past couple of months.

Tom Rowe

We do not understand Commissioner Furmon's motivations in calling for an FBI investigation. Based upon what we've looked into thus far, we haven't seen anything that would appear to warrant that type of action or an FBI investigation.

Jacques Rogge

We do not rule out any action or sanction but we need to know more facts before we do that. The information that we have (so far) received is too much to be ignored.

Jeff Pyle

Both ... have played extremely well for us throughout the season. I really can't say now who will start. I do know that both of them will see plenty of action during the playoffs.

Gerald Majola

(Botha) will be taking our recommended course of action so that he can start bowling off-spin again at representative level as soon as possible.

Jeff Prescott

Bringing a suit like that as a class-action is obviously designed to be sensational, get media attention. And, unfortunately, these are the kinds of lawsuits that drive up health care costs for everybody in the system.

Walt Sanchez

We did a good job coming out of the gate, and held them to four field goal attempts in the first quarter.

Kofi Annan

I did not influence, or attempt to influence, the procurement process.

P. J. Harvey

The Attorney General's Office is committed to maintaining the integrity of New Jersey's gaming industry by aggressively pursuing casino-related crime and prosecuting those who attempt to manipulate financial instruments to illegally gamble in New Jersey casinos,

John Carr

The administration is going to attempt to exploit a loophole in the law to avoid collective bargaining. We intend to close that loophole.

Nur Misuari

There was an attempt to have them released, but the engine of their boat conked out on their way back to Sabah (East Malaysia).

Gerry Adams

This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,

Christopher Slobogin

This is just the latest attempt to put a dent in the execution industry and it will take a while to play itself out.

Dan Mclaughlin

This is just a desperate attempt to deflect attention from a career of blunders and failures.

Eric Phillips

This is in no way an attempt to usurp the judges' power. We're merely coming back to the table on sentencing.

Jerry Sloan

They just waxed our ears back pretty good. In the first half, we looked like we were pretty casual about it.

Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jerry Brown

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

John Cheever

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

Will Rogers

You can't say that civilization don't advance; for in every war they kill you a new way.

Octavio Paz

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Octavio Paz

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

Emile M. Cioran

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

Emile M. Cioran

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Eric Rohmer

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Steve Gaspar

We are hoping to control the tempo. We will run it if we have the opportunity, or slow it down if that?s not working.

Kyle Tregoning

We'll need to be able to control the tempo of that game (to have a chance).

William Blake

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

Tommy Bowden

You'd like to see the offensive line kind of take control of the scrimmage to be honest with you. You like to see them come out there and establish some sort of running superiority.

Tommy Bowden

You'd like to see one side control the day -- I'd prefer defense -- control the whole tempo and the whole success of the offense.

Joel Walton

Lewis was a team effort. It takes everybody doing their part on defense. You've got to make pretty good defensive plays and it allows us to go in and control play from start to finish.

Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

Carolyn Peterson

I've been trying to tell him to do the dives that he does. He hasn't had his great meet yet. He has his head in the game. It's hard to read Kenny, but from what I see, he's where I want him to be.

Retief Goosen

I've been putting well all week, ... It was a great match. I just putted better than he did.

Burney Lamar

I've been in their shoes, and it's hard. It's great to see somebody at least have that opportunity.

Melissa McCarthy

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

Martin Compston

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

Cadillac Williams

It would mean a lot for me, and for the offensive linemen. Those guys played a big role in what I did this year. They've done a great job.

Andy Hall

It would be great to take preventative measures until waiting for something to happen.

Noel Meade

It would be great to start thinking he was that kind of horse. I was very impressed with him.

Jose Castillo

It would be great to play in it.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Juvenal

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Juvenal

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Juvenal

Men who only live to eat.

Juvenal

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.