Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Siem

Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.

Jeff Gross

We don't have any confirmation that there are any sterilized wolves left alive. Our (radio) collars have all gone off the air.

Jack Ward

Deterrents aren't sufficiently strong because to many white collar crimes seldom result in conviction.

David Gourevitch

These sentences frankly are out of control. You get a sentence that's akin to what you would get for a homicide or for rape. In a white collar case, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

Michael Ashcroft

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.

Mike Pereira

We had problems distinguishing whether it was the collar of the jersey or the inside of the shoulder pad. But the result was the same.

Steve Sarro

Those collars were out of control. They looked pretty nasty.

Japanese Proverb

One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars

Gerald Lefcourt

Just because someone's convicted of a large fraud, you don't have to give him a life sentence. White collar crimes are deterred by even short sentences. White collar people don't need to see a 65-year-old get 25 years to be deterred.

Paul Harris

This is a different jurisdiction. He hasn't been convicted of any offense in Hong Kong. There's no reason why he should not be able to return to his job.

Leonard Sand

There was a time when the crime itself determined the sentence. It used to be if someone is convicted of premeditated murder, the state said the punishment was death, ... That is no longer the case.

R. Robinson

These men are on-the-run terrorists, convicted of terrorism in a Colombian court.

Robert Zoellick

There's going to be no deal here with Aleman on the part of the United States, ... a convicted criminal.

Elaine Makatura

We have no way of knowing if they were a convicted felon, or whether they were telling the truth if they said they weren't one.

S. Hughes

We know she doesn't want him convicted of this murder, ... She wants him out so they can have their life together.

Bob Conlin

If a person is convicted of something while in state service, they do not automatically lose their benefits. There's no provision in state law for something like that.

Douglas Gibson

She is a convicted criminal who stole thousands of rands of taxpayers' money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Joseph Estrada

I have mixed feelings. I welcome this opportunity to present my side because I was denied that right in the impeachment trial when prosecutors walked out. I was convicted in the streets.

Jerry Doyle

It's a shame people would stoop to this kind of thing. We have to look at these crimes and see if there is anything else we can do.

James Lockyer

This is a familiar problem: people spending years in jail for crimes that didn't happen as a result of erroneous pathology.

Latin Proverb

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love

Hugh Graf

It's not uncommon for these types of scams or crimes around this time of the year.

David Smith

It's a vicious and ugly reminder of anti-gay prejudice. What is unique about hate crimes is that they terrorize the whole community.

Richard Dicker

Despite shortcomings, it was a momentous day for Iraqis. It sends a signal that the days of unlimited impunity for these types of crimes may be winding down.

Li Zhi

The move will help regulators deal with securities crimes more efficiently and help small investors protect their legal rights.

Noam Chomsky

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Brad Smith

These are real crimes that disrupt the lives of real people.

Chip Cochrane

Bode is one of those rare individuals who's not deterred by a lack of success. That doesn't seem to be part of his mindset.

Adam Isacson

People with no economic alternatives have not been deterred by fumigation.

Justin Hayward

I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don't be deterred from that. Just develop that something that's unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that's all.

Bruce Hoffman

It could be that because we were vigilant, because we were on guard, because of the warnings we issued, it deterred the terrorists,

Francesco Frangialli

We must ensure that people are not deterred from travelling without good reason.

Brady Anderson

If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad.

Gia Coppola

I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you're older?' I felt pressured, and that always kind of deterred me.

Thomas Schelling

It will be unusual to be deterred by small countries,

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Jim Gulliford

We're looking for large payoffs. But they're done incrementally.

Nicholas Burns

We are (also) disappointed that Radovan Karadzic is still at large and not in the Hague,

Bible Bible

Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

Georg Brandes

About the same time as my legal studies were thus beginning, I planned out a study of Philosophy and Aesthetics on a large scale as well.

Steve Wright

It seems like a large number of providers can't find vaccine,

Grant Williamson

It's a stock which is not treading much volume these days, but it does move in quite large swings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Chris Phillips

It's a short tournament. If you don't have it, you don't have much time to find it.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

Derek Halpenny

The yen is being supported by a liquidation of short positions.

David Chase

They're on edge, disquieted, off balance. What a short time we're on this Earth.

Cary Elwes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Cameron Crowe

I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,

Kevin Gray

It would be an interesting test on short notice,

Lois Perrin

It was very likely, and to be done in short order.

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Edmond Rostand

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.

Eddie Huang

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

David Hume

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

David Duke

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.