Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ignacio Bunye

She is here to look for more investments, create more jobs and improve the economy. This case of Michael Ray Aquino is only secondary ... it is a legal matter. The President is not concerned about police matters,

Eugene Peterson

I have my doubts (that the schools will open on time). We have a law case out of Sojourner-Douglass, and at Chesapeake we have all kinds of issues.

Kevin McCarthy

If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together.

David Gregory

I find myself very drawn to the experience of church. I love to be in a surrounding that's so welcoming. People come shake your hand. That's not always the case in most synagogues I've been in. I also find more of an emphasis on how to live and grow as a person. And I have to say, I'm very inspired by Jesus.

Marianne Wolk

I find it illogical to make a case that it's better to be diversified when search is growing so much faster online.

Edith Wharton

I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conventionalities... I mean, each woman's right to her liberty.

Jerry Jackson

I can't say how she was killed because the case is still going on and is still under investigation.

Gary Bald

I can tell you that the cooperation that we have is unprecedented in this case, and we feel very comfortable that the platform that we've developed, and the cooperation that we've received from the other jurisdictions, is exactly what we need to be able to pursue this case successfully.

Joe Lockhart

Because of politics, the House majority party has impeached the president because they could do it, because they had the power to do it and without making an effective case for it,

Raymond Gilmartin

When you're the retired CEO, you get out of the way, in effect. Dick is the new CEO and I think it's important that he have a clear field.

Dick Costolo

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.

Lori Wada

That is a message to all convicted sexual offenders. You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this type of prison term.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Paine

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments...

Thomas Paine

Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Thomas Paine

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

Thomas Paine

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Timothy Geithner

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

Thomas Jefferson

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Thomas Jefferson

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Thomas Jefferson

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

Edsger Dijkstra

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Allen Tate

Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

Aesop

A false tale often betrays itself.

Abraham Lincoln

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Alfred Nobel

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

Aldous Huxley

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

Aldous Huxley

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

Albert Pike

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Adolf Loos

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.