Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Singer

Andrea Bronfman was a pillar of her family and the entire Jewish community. She was an activist as well as a philanthropist.

Howard Dean

Each of their surprise disclosures has contained additional reasons for concern about whether Roberts would use his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to be an activist for an ideological agenda or an advocate for Americans' personal freedom.

Mathew Staver

Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology.

Debra Marcus

That sounds to me like an activist judge.

Tom DeLay

It's an activist judge. He's trying to defend his position that's indefensible,

Ben Lieberman

The world is full of tradeoffs, and sometimes 'renewable power' activists fail to recognize that. Solar energy collectors must displace a tremendous amount of natural landscape to produce any significant amount of energy. And anything less requires a great deal of financial expenditures for very little and very inconsistent power.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Nina Easton

In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.

Mike Woods

He was a great advocate of cycling, a great role model for cyclists. I met him at a public meeting in Leesburg. And he got up and spoke to the presenters. He spoke in support of additional trail projects. And I think he was instrumental in bringing other people to the meetings to speak their mind.

Kent Conrad

He wants an additional $18 billion that is not in the budget. And my question to him is, this is spending you say is needed. How do you intend to pay for it?

John Sanders

He kept the place going while President Graham in particular pursued the additional ends of those involved in the presidency.

Dorothy Attwood

What we feel that we're offering is an additional product, an additional choice. We're not taking anything away from the consumer.

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I don't want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Bryant Kitty

He's a great kid. You figure after you saw him once you would be OK, but we saw him for an additional five innings and still had a hard time figuring him out.

John Novak

Going forward, we assume Algoma will continue to be opportunistic in making additional share buybacks and special distributions.

Carl Renshaw

Historic farmlands in New Hampshire and elsewhere are increasingly being developed. While the arsenic and lead in the soils of old orchards is essentially immobile as long as the land is not disturbed, our work suggests that the development of these lands can inadvertently mobilize these metals toward bodies of water. Communities in these areas may want to ensure additional precautions are taken to control erosion when old orchard lands are disturbed in order to reduce the potential for contamination of nearby surface waters.

Chris Hill

I think it's fairly clear there would be consequences (for not attending), and that's another reason why I think they don't need any additional convincing.

John Chisholm

There are still decent prospects within emerging markets. We wouldn't advocate getting out of them completely. We just don't think you're going to see the same kind of performance you've seen coming out of them in the past five years.

Bob Richardson

He's a very very strong advocate of science and education.

Tom Jensen

It is my understanding that public funds cannot be used to advocate for a particular result in a bond or budget vote.

Charles Ruff

I'm never certain how to respond when an advocate on the other side of a case calls up images of patriots over the centuries who have sacrificed themselves to preserve our democracy,

Roy H. Williams

I know she will be an advocate for women and minorities. I wouldn't label her as a conservative or a liberal. She would be a centrist. That she was a Republican didn't stand in the way of fair play and her being fair minded.

Bill Dudley

The Fed's decision should be relatively positive for the bond market. They are not overdoing it and will do more if needed. We continue to advocate long positions and expect the Treasury bond market to rally considerably further.

Pat Toomey

The club's principle purpose is to advocate for and defend pro-growth policies, ... We have consulted with counsel every step of the way and have followed the law and regulations that govern our work.

Pat Toomey

The Club's principal purpose is to advocate for and defend pro-growth policies, ... We have consulted with counsel every step of the way and have followed the law and regulations that govern our work.

Bea Fuentes

The event is the ACS grassroots program celebrating cancer survivorship and empowering survivors and others to advocate for laws that will help fight the disease.

Lee H. Hamilton

He certainly has kept his agenda in front of us,

Howard Dean

Hard-working Americans will see through this President's effort to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Jim Brandt

It is a highly focused agenda on storm recovery issues, as well as seeking the budget she wants.

Don Johnson

I was just suggesting some times to discuss things at future meetings in order to set up agendas ahead of time so that we know what's coming down the line. I don't think we need to discuss that in the meeting.

Ollanta Humala

I'd just say the situations in our two countries - Venezuela and Peru - are completely different. The fact that we have an important agenda of change here doesn't mean that we want to join in the ideological conflict between Venezuela and the United States.

Dan Bonner

I don't know what his agenda is. I have to listen to what he has to say. I vote for the man who I think is going to do the best job for the state.

Saxby Chambliss

I don't know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, ... There's simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July, that we thought we would be dealing with today, just because of Katrina.

Minendra Rijal

He says he is giving power to the people but the statement is influenced by his own agenda focusing on general elections. He has given hints that he is bending but actually he is not.

Rick Warren

To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.

Joe Donnelly

I talk about it. It's a concern to a lot of people.

Kelly Williams

I always felt his game was ready (for the NBA). I was concerned about the off-the-court issues and mentally.

Craig Patrick

He didn't make the trip because in the third period last night he was having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat. Obviously, we're concerned about it, so we left him at home.

Michael Cloherty

Greenspan is speaking tonight and it's a matter of some concern that he could surprise people.

Michelle Clayman

There are still concerns that profits will slow considerably, and that will hit stocks. But I think there are a number of stocks that are just oversold at these levels.

Scott Matthews

Here at the Green Design Initiative, we're concerned that most will go to landfills,

J. Nichols

hard-working, self-educated and nurturing man. A concerned and a devoted father.

Lucinda Chan

Gold tends to be inflation related, and there's concern about the specter of rising costs now.

David Cole

I think it's a very excellent move that Jerry will be joining GM's board. My only concern is that he may have had more influence from the outside than he will from the inside.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

Jeremy Leaman

It has yet to recover from the catastrophic slump of 1990 and 1991 or to reach the level of output of 1988, ... In 1998 east Germany contained 18 percent of the working population but produced only 9 percent of Gross National Product, only 6 percent of industrial production and supplied only 3 percent of the country's exports.

Z. Sheppard

The corners and safeties contained their receivers and let the D-line contain the run. We expected him (Culpepper) to take his shots, just throw it up even though his receivers were covered.

Barbara Stewart

The fire is fully contained within the park. There are no homes threatened at this time.

Larry Johnson

It started at the rear of the structure, and it was contained to those two buildings,

Walt Smith

Defensively, we did a good job with adjustments in the second half. Offensively, we have enough speed to hurt people. We are also pretty big up front, but they never contained Marco tonight.

Pearl Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Mick Jagger

As I got to him he showed me the paper and I saw it contained some white powder.

Andre Breton

Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Anthony Kennedy

It involved a constitutional issue of the gravest importance decided 4-3 by a state court on a federal issue that it was our responsibility to take the case, ... Sometimes it is easy, so it seems, to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of our court.

Neal Katyal

It is a foundation of this court to test the lawfulness of military tribunals.

Rick Davis

I think the public vetting proves that this guy is the real deal ? bright, knows the issues and can leave a long-term imprint on the court because of his youth and intellect.

Harry Reid

I think the American people can see through this so clearly. The president should come forward with some middle-of-the-road person, somebody that is going to be a good Supreme Court justice, not somebody that's going to be writing the law from the bench, ... This Week.

Michael Bell

There is no hearing currently set in the federal court for a hearing to review the restraining order.

Walter de La Mare

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Kerry Packer

You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

Paul Whelton

You can't recreate those samples, ... It's really devastating to the investigators who spent a lifetime putting these studies together faithfully. It's their life's work.

Mary Balogh

I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.

Phil Robertson

Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Michael Chertoff

interprets the law, straight without injecting your personal preferences.

Jacques Maritain

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Kobe Bryant

He can play. I think he's been a surprise to people. Now I don't think he's so much a surprise anymore.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

W. Somerset Maugham

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Andy Williams

I'm surprised at how we played. I thought we would play much better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Sabrina Davis

I want everyone to get their say, whether they say yes or no.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.