Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Cayne

Our equity underwriting activities were at record levels as robust equity markets contributed to an abundant deal flow.

Gracia Burnham

Our family did what the Abu Sayyaf asked and we believed them,

Janis Karpinski

The most pronounced difference was when Miller came to visit. He came right after Rumsfeld's visit ... And he said that he was going to use a template from Guantßnamo Bay to 'Gitm-oize' the operations out at Abu Ghraib.

Santiago Durango

No, we did one more as that Silver Abuse and for that we did a full set and we broke up 'cause I didn't want to play with them anymore.

Shashi Tharoor

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

Janis Karpinski

What is very troubling to me today are reports from soldiers serving at Abu Ghraib who have very strong suspicions that the abuse continues.

Adam Clarke

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

Amrit Singh

Well, these photographs are out and what really remains to be seen is how the government will respond to them. Will the government take this opportunity to really do an independent investigation into why this abuse happened and who is ultimately responsible for it ?

Desmond Tutu

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

Santiago Durango

No, we did one more as that Silver Abuse and for that we did a full set and we broke up 'cause I didn't want to play with them anymore.

Adam Clarke

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

Amrit Singh

Well, these photographs are out and what really remains to be seen is how the government will respond to them. Will the government take this opportunity to really do an independent investigation into why this abuse happened and who is ultimately responsible for it ?

Alfred de Musset

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Stefan Molyneux

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

Bill Johnson

Many have never received praise, have never achieved top grades or are not the top athletes, but who come to school with burdens each day and still do well. They may be physically challenged or have suffered abandonment or abuse by their parents, they face all sorts of real obstacles.

Horace Bushnell

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

Jenny Holzer

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

Kevin Anderson

He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think this was a continuing abuse of the secrecy stamp to try to remove embarrassing documents from the public eye.

Abraham Whipple

I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines.

Robert E. Lee

Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.

Oliver North

I was authorized to do everything that I did.

William Wiley

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

William Wiley

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

William Wiley

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

William Wiley

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

William Wiley

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

William Wiley

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

George H. W. Bush

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Neale Donald Walsch

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

Liberace

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

Lester B. Pearson

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.