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.

Maajid Nawaz

The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

Adi Godrej

We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions.

Attorney Garnati

We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save our domestic violence program, and in turn, save women and children.

Bill Cheney

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP (gross domestic product) growth have increased substantially.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

With the year-end and new-year retail sales showing good results, the market mirrors optimism about the outlook of domestic consumption.

Pat Camden

We're being told there's an order of protection in place, and as I said, it's an ongoing domestic situation.

Homi Kharas

As poverty comes down in the region, we are likely to see a shift in the drivers of growth from exports more towards domestic demand.

William Sullivan

They may wait until after their second-quarter (gross domestic product) report comes out because if the number is strong, trying to slow down the yen will be an uphill battle.

Salvador Zamora

It's the first of its kind in a domestic law enforcement setting.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

Sir Jones

They represent a growing market for value-added goods that we can produce and deliver.

Junichi Makino

There is uncertainty over the trend of imports of IT (information technology) goods in the US, where IT investment is running at a historically high level,

Adrian Bowyer

People can start manufacturing goods at a low price,

Fred Williams

A number of pawn shops and sporting goods stores were hit,

Pat Buchanan

We'll keep your goods out unless you let our goods in.

John Berthoud

Every person in the U.S., including those here illegally, would help to pay for government whenever they purchase goods and services.

Evan Kohlmann

You have some from poor families, some jobless. You also have individuals that come from wealthy families, that come from a life of privilege and substance and material goods and material wealth.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Edith Wharton

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Mark Cuban

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charlie Munger

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Thomas Cummings

(During rainy weather) we tend to stay indoors and do household stuff and not socialize. When people get depressed, they tend to isolate themselves. It's a symptom but also a cause.

Nicholas Broffman

These were not super dogs. They were just ordinary household pets.

Manish Jha

You really own them at the personal level, not the household level.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

David Johnson

As the kids leave the household and you've got that older consumer, there are a lot of needs that we see.

Rutina Wesley

Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Mamie Gummer

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.

David Krumholtz

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

Jiang Zemin

liberating their thoughts and seeking truth from facts.

Annie Leibovitz

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

Diane Paulus

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

Etgar Keret

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

Paulo Coelho

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Astro Teller

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Helmut Jahn

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Cathy Guisewite

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

Bill Janklow

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Steve Forbes

They never seem to be on the offense. Their spin machine is a little rusty.

Prakash Javadekar

This is a machine and anything can go wrong with it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Ed Koch

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Lester Sullivan

It's the one day when all of society is turned upside down.

David Gourevitch

They're going from one end of society all the way to the other.

Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

John Hewson

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Phiroz Vandrevala

The structure for the subsidiary would be in place by June.

Harry Schmidt

You're going to put America's command-and-control structure on trial? ... It's not going to happen.

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

Paul Provenza

We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).

Tara Miller

I use Lysol and bleach and water. And, I am always washing blankets.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Christopher Shays

It's kind of like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Dickens

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Alan Jay Lerner

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Eddie Murphy

Making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

Dawn Staley

Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but... we still have you, and you still have us.