Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

John Canavan

The sell-off has been sharp but not extreme. It did push the bond above 5 percent and that is going to be the psychological story taken away from all of this.

James Williams

The strong build in gasoline coupled by the fact that every major product has inventories above the high end of their average range for this time of year will add to the recent bearish sentiment.

H. Hart

They want a 6-8 and jump-out-of-the-gym forward. It would take an astute scout to look at the intangibles and his uniqueness as an athlete.

Hugh Scott

After the complaint was received by the commission, there was a series of mutual discussions between the commission and the chief justice, and she concurred with the commission that this was an appropriate way to resolve the matter.

Matthew Fox

Compassion is the essence of Jesus' teaching, and indeed of the teaching of all great spiritual figures from Mohammed to Isaiah, from Lao Tzu to Chief Seattle. Yet compassion has been sentimentalized and severed from its relationship to justice-making and celebration. Creation Spirituality links the struggle for justice with the yearning for mysticism.

Scott Anderson

The State Umpire in Chief rewards umpires who want to work top games by assigning them to national tournaments, and I have been fortunate to work three nationals.

Edward Kennedy

There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for chief justice, ... I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

Teddy Stewart

As the chief you're not going to make everybody happy. That's just part of your job.

R. Ingram

As the chief financial officer of a Fortune 500 company he knew exactly what he was doing,

Gloria Borger

What that means is that Judge Roberts is guaranteed an up or down vote and he is also guaranteed to be the next chief justice of the Supreme Court.

William Cavendish

No horse therefore is well dressed that is not light in hand; so that an easy and gentle bridle, but firm, is the chief secret to make a horse light.

Paula Brown

I got a message from (Police Chief Robert Smythe) saying a guy died in custody after struggling with officers,

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Robert McCann

This is a solid deal for us at Merrill Lynch , and we are confident about the long-term benefits. We will definitely consider other acquisitions like this when they become available.

Ken Schrader

You've just got to be confident or you wouldn't be here at this level.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Richard LeVine

You have to have a feel for what's really going to work in the long run, what the issues are that may seem controversial in the short run, ... If you're pretty confident that you've thought it through, you'll go ahead. But if there's a lot of controversy and you actually listen to the opposition, sometimes you decide they're right.

Brian Mason

We were confident that we were going to win. We knew what we had to do in order to get the job done.

Ali Dabagh

We were confident before, but now we are totally confident.

Carl Tobias

He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majority of senators whose votes he needs.

Mark Kimmitt

I know that your reporter may have confirmed it to you. But that's what your correspondents have been doing for the last few days, repeating and confirming lies,

Dick Muir

There were some very pleasing performances from the new guys. Some confirmed they might have what it takes, others did not. That is what warm-up games are for. You only really know how good a guy is when you test him in a genuine match situation.

David Fischer

We know that when he was 14 years old, he was adjudicated as a delinquent. He was found guilty of molesting two children. I have confirmed that through several law enforcement sources, and I am confident.

Mulugeta Debalkew

There are many types of avian flu, so to determine what type it is and get our results confirmed we have to send the samples to Italy.

Dave Wannstedt

No question, we've seen it all. There's nothing in there we won't have seen. But as a defensive coach, you can't worry about defending ghosts. You can talk all you want about a team and the way they do things, but it comes down to what gets done on the field,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

Marvin Hier

Every (Holocaust) survivor in the world walked a little taller and felt a little more secure because Simon Wiesenthal was out there defending their honor and the honor of their loved ones who perished.

Billy Donovan

For us, it was a game we had to grind it out. It wasn't always our style of play. ... Tonight was about consecutive stops and defending the 3-point line. They shot 19 percent from the 3-point line and 39 percent from the field. That was the difference.

Jason Guffey

That was one of my goals this week, come in and not give up any points. There's going to be extra pressure (being a defending champion) but I'll be taking it like I have on the other matches. I have to step it up next week.

Mike Hohensee

I don't like the fact that we are 0-1, but I think we found out we have a good football team today. They are the defending champs and a very good football team.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Porter Moser

There were possessions were it seemed like we were defending 90 seconds in a row.

Arnaldo Otegi

Today we have seen who is defending human rights.

Kirstie Alley

If you stop exercising - which I did - and if you stop watching your caloric intake - which I did - you're gonna get fat.

Blaise Pascal

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Sean Reilly

We are going to be faithful stewards of this federal money.

Claudio Hummes

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

John Quincy Adams

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

James A. Baldwin

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

J. C. Ryle

Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.

Hudson Taylor

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

Chris Byrd

To fight three times in three years is crazy. It has been disappointing to the point of sometimes you get frustrated and really just want to retire. I have been to that point, but God is faithful and I just keep plugging along. I just have to remain patient and fights will happen, but it has been disappointing.

Walter Scott

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

Carla Bruni

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Coco Chanel

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

Arthur Schopenhauer

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

Andy Borowitz

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

E. F. Schumacher

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Sue Grafton

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Tom Allen

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Matt LeBlanc

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

Maria Montessori

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Julian Mack

This is probably the worst miscarriage of justice I've seen in 34 years of practice.

Gary L. Francione

We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.

bell hooks

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Arundhati Roy

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Blaise Pascal

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Denis Diderot

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Edmund Burke

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Aristotle

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Jill Soloway

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Brandon Sanderson

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Baruch Spinoza

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Augusten Burroughs

You manufacture beauty with your mind

Benjamin Banneker

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Dalai Lama

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

Andre Gide

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Daniel McConchie

I don't think it's the most prudent thing to do at this time. It's really a long-shot type of situation." ()

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Jack Nicholson

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.