Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrienne Clarkson

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

Pat Hayes

Once we get the public's acceptance on it, we're going to save some money. We've all used a pop machine, it's not that difficult, but people are still having problems with it.

Arthur Gordon

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Leo Veness

Once we Live for Love we will then have Love for Life.

Malcolm Fraser

Sometimes the solutions will require acknowledgement of past mistakes, and acceptance of insights for which none of our learning has prepared us.

Andrew Miller

That's where all the growth has been. Now there's an acceptance of the A320 as a low-cost workhorse, whereas prior to that the 737 was the plane of choice.

Andrew Miller

That's where all the growth has been. Now there's an acceptance of the A 320 as a low-cost workhorse, whereas prior to that the 737 was the plane of choice.

Barbara Jordan

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Janet Leigh

[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

Kim Kappler

People should realize that no shelter wants to take someone's pet. Animals want to be with their owners.

Marilyn Marinelli

People can keep these animals, they don't need to be put down.

Laura Simon

People don't realize animals have such strong maternal instincts.

Robert H. Connelly

People didn't like it. (Cole Bros.) saw the light. The animals are back.

Dave Marshall

Dealing with livestock, animals that are 1,200 pounds with minds of their own, you have to watch out. Working with horses, they can go to bucking, in snow they can slip and fall on ya.

Robbie Reiser

Daytona and Talladega are two different animals. When it comes to speed they are basically the same. When you're working on qualifying, it doesn't matter, if you're finding speed at Talladega, you're finding speed at Daytona. When we get into drafting practice and we get into handling and stuff like that then they are two different tracks. That's where you hear a lot of guys say they bring different types of cars to Daytona then they do to Talladega because once you get 30 laps into a run, the car definitely handles differently at Talladega than what it does at Daytona.

Joseph Domenech

Compensating farmers for the loss of their animals is another important tool to encourage early reporting of outbreaks and for effective application of control measures. Without financial incentives, people will probably continue to hide outbreaks and sell infected poultry.

Matt Prescott

Companies don't want shareholders to read or hear about all the nasty things they do to animals.

Colleen Finnegan

A petting zoo is when they bring the baby animals out, and in this case, it's when they bring instruments kids can hear, and in some cases touch and play.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Larry Conley

People say it's considered the biggest time of the year for eating. I just enjoy eating a lot of food and being with friends and family.

Francis Lun

People are still very keen on buying China shares as it's the biggest growth story -- and Hong Kong is catching the coattails of China's growth.

Brian Curry

People are still seeing a lot of their needs being met on the current paradigm which has to do with a free client and pretty solid services that they are getting from the public services, ... That's probably one of the biggest barriers. What they have is often times good enough.

Steve Lacy

People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

Brad Scott

Osawatomie is a quality opponent and we made a lot of mistakes. We just made a couple plays here and there. The opening kick off was probably one of the biggest ones.

Marion Nestle

or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.

Bill Brown

Offensively and defensively, they have a real consistent program, ... The biggest difference with this year's team for them is they might have a lack of experience.

Carl Zetie

No single factor is responsible for more wasted effort, rework, or failed projects than inadequate requirements. For many companies, improving the communication of requirements between IT and business managers-both gathering the requirements from the business and confirming understanding to the business-is the single improvement with the biggest measurable impact.

Jayna Neagle

You might find these systems are so expensive that it doesn't equal the savings.

Gregg Easterbrook

You need some counterpoint to a big developer. With NRDC and St. Joe facing off with each other, that's relatively equal competition.

Ayn Rand

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

Bertrand Russell

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Cardinal Richelieu

Who will be my equal?

Susan B. Anthony

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Ludwig von Mises

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

Deborah Tannen

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

Aristotle

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Alvaro Soto

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Kenneth Prewitt

are groups not likely to use the Internet.

R. Inge

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

Barry Gibb

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Robert Lacey

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

Red Buttons

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the only woman ever to apply for group alimony. Never got a dinner!

Richard Harris

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

Michael Emerson

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

Sienna Miller

I have the same group of friends I've had since I was three.

Margaret Mead

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Jacob Owiti

The opposition is very stiff but I am optimistic.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Joel Osteen

Opposition is not there to stop you, it’s there to establish you.

Monte Mitchell

Today is not a day to be doing outdoor burning.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Suzanne Vega

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Pope Francis

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Rachel Corrie

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

George Saunders

All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Bjork

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.