Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Wordsworth

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.

Valerie Jarrett

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

Robert Reich

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they`re not really the establishment. I can`t obviously speak for Senator [Bernie] Sanders or about Planned Parenthood. But what we do see, and we`ve seen for years in America, is that the establishment, that is, the big banks and the executives and the wealthy do support a lot of non-profits and make the non-profits basically walk to the tune of the establishment.

Robert Mugabe

Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

Erin Sorenson

I would say more important than having these big conversations with children about sex abuse would be every single day tell the child how much you love them, whatever happens to them even if they thought they were in trouble that you'll never hate them, never get them in trouble because they came to you.

Diana Williams

He should be sentenced for as many years as possible for the mental abuse he inflicted on me and my friend, ... I'm sure there are others out there who would like to see him locked up.

Ned Yost

I think that pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. These guys are making so much money nowadays that you're trying to protect your investment and you don't want to abuse anybody out there, especially if you've got a good arm.

Jay Stanley

I think that when you have a system that is based on such a subjective criteria, and it remains subjective no matter what the training is about, that you will inevitably have abuse and racial profiling.

Ned Yost

Pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. Guys make so much money now. You want to protect your investment. You don't want to abuse your pitchers.

Kathy Grimes

Pima Town Council identified substance abuse as a problem in its community and declared a war on drugs. We held meet-your-neighbor nights, educational nights, and we got the community informed and communicating about the issue.

Bertie Ahern

President Bush is very much aware of the abhorrence that the people of Ireland and of Europe felt at the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by coalition forces,

Gayle Bradshaw

In Perth, we were averaging around five seconds from challenge to display. Some conversations I had with Taylor Dent, he noticed that this technology actually speeded up play rather than slowed play down. There was less reason or no reason to argue with the chair umpire.; The players, once they saw the call, just went back and played. The two incorrect challenge limit kind of is a built in safety net in case anybody tries to abuse the system. I think the concerns now for a player using it for gamesmanship is minimal.

Hugh Laurie

If your life, or the life of someone you love, is hanging in the balance, of course you would withstand any amount of abuse to get the job done and to get the life saved. Of course, you have to be convinced that person knows what they're doing. In real life, you have no way of knowing that you're dealing with the best person for the job. It's only on television that you can know that.