Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Martin

I would work for the abolition of animals. If Prof Aziz legitimately thinks otherwise then that's a defensible position because it was the law in this country to do it, it is the law in other countries to do it.

George William Norris

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Stanley Hauerwas

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

Wynton Marsalis

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.

Charlie Stenholm

The chief executive officer of the multi-million dollar Humane Society of the United States once stated that his personal goal was the abolition of all animal agriculture. I'm happy to say, he's lost a very important battle today, and animal agriculture won.

Tadatoshi Akiba

This Aug. 6 ... is a time of inheritance, of awakening, and of commitment, in which we inherit the commitment of the bomb victims to the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of genuine world peace,

Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

Pavel Krasheninnikov

Public opinion influences the matter a great deal. From the political viewpoint, nobody ventures to raise issues related to the abolition of the death penalty while terrorist attacks still happen.

Peter Pan

He damaged whatever legacy he has. When people think of him now, they think of molestation.

Dick Brickley

Interstate 10 was buckled and severely damaged in many spots. We were forced to use the median or leave the road many times.

David Graham

I just pointed and shot. When this precious relationship that we had was damaged by my thoughtless actions, the only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place.

Ian Michaels

It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole.

Youssef Ibrahim

This can only make the already-damaged image worse. The problem is, for four or five years, we haven't found a way to repair that damaged image.

Sam Olens

There were more houses damaged by the tornadoes, but fewer houses totally destroyed. The tornado doesn't compare.

Simon Lee

It's a huge relief. There are a number of small damaged patches, but they are off the race track and are now being dealt with.

Gore Vidal

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Joe Juraszek

I will have them do movements that are specific to their position. I'm not technical enough when it comes to football. That's for the position coaches.

Ron Shock

Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then I wrap it up - like three-piece movements in a symphony.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Greg Hall

I can't tell you what her movements were,

Gloria Steinem

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Gus O'Donnell

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.