Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Miguel

The first thing his lawyers will do now is to fight to get him out of detention and on bail.

Thaksin Shinawatra

We have no involvement at all, ... We don't have any detention or secret jails or whatever.

Ike Skelton

Meaningful oversight must include proper scrutiny of all U.S. detention facilities, whether those facilities are located on U.S. or foreign soil.

Greg Boyle

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

Nolan North

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

Manfred Nowak

We want to have all information about secret places of detention because whenever there is a secret place of detention, there is also a higher risk that people are subjected to torture.

Manfred Nowak

Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees? It's just nonsense.

Michael Howard

We have consistently said that a 28-day period of detention is the maximum period that we would support.

James Rubin

We view his detention for peacefully exercising fundamental freedoms guaranteed by international human rights instruments as a serious step in the wrong direction.

Kirstie Alley

If you stop exercising - which I did - and if you stop watching your caloric intake - which I did - you're gonna get fat.

Bill Gurley

You have to realize that these things are potent cardiac stimulants, and when you are exercising and lifting heavy weights, you are already taxing your cardiovascular system, and all this does is make it work harder.

Bruce Springsteen

We remain a land of great promise, but we must move on, ... humility in exercising our power around the world.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way.

Jim McMahon

Not at all, I mean I understand what these guys have gone through. Not only them, but the generations before them. Without them, we couldn't have the freedoms that we have today.

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Charles B. Rangel

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

Billy Beane

If there is any player who you couldn't be happier for signing a guaranteed multiyear contract, it's Mark Ellis, particularly because of what he went through.

James Balsillie

These patents are ... guaranteed to go in the garbage. At the end of the day, our position is real simple: Let the system work.

Shay Doron

Nothing is guaranteed in basketball. You never know in sports. We could lose in the first round next year, so we can't take this for granted. We have to do everything in our power to win this national championship now.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Florentino Perez

Some of the players think they have a guaranteed place in the side and that they are the best. I think they are getting confused.

Nigel Dawes

We had trouble, myself included, getting pucks through from up top on the 5-on-3s. Every time we have a 5-on-3 should be a guaranteed goal, but at times it seems it's even harder for us. It's something we have to work on.

Tim Schafer

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Margaret Williams

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

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

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.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

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.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

George Williams

He's got serious speed. He still has a lot of development to work on. I think he can get down in the 46's.

Robert Hall

He's a threat to society, he's a menace. We have a very serious situation here.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.

Nancy Thayer

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

John Clayton

He'll end up here. You're not going to see any other teams step up.

Ben Lee

In some places, they're so thick you can't step without killing tons of them.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Mathias Kiwanuka

I just said ?Someone had to make a play, someone had to step up,' and someone did.

Mike Dunne

I'm just concerned. No one's really stepping forward. It's a public-safety issue.

Colin Purdon

I'm nervous. But when we step on the court, it's down to business.

Richard Jewell

The first step was a long process, ... Go Braves!

Paul Turner

The first step is to do this kind of broad-brushed analysis.

Khaleda Zia

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Gary Barnett

I think I said the wrong thing, the wrong way and at the wrong time,

William Anderson

has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way.

Hank Tierney

He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.

Anthony Ricco

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Tom Davies

investigate aggressively what went wrong and what went right.

Richard Carey

was in the wrong place in the wrong time.

Tim Purpura

Nothing was wrong with the elbow, but it just didn't feel right, ... There were times when it just didn't feel right.

Csaba Csere

It's very exciting, very intense. You have to be tuned in to every vibration, every sound, because if things go wrong, they go wrong fast.