Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Niven

A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

Atharva Veda

A woman should always think good of her family and should work according to her husband's wishes so that a peaceful, happy and cordial atmosphere prevails in the family.

Charles Reinhard

Back in December of 1996 when he gave his very famed 'irrational exuberance' speech, the stock market was actually fairly valued according to or models. This is very different, because the equity market is actually about 28 percent overvalued compared to our models right now.

Tom Early

Procuring cause should simply go away. It's an antiquated system. Buyer agents should earn their fee according to the contractual agreements they enter into with buyers. We need to have honest, contractual agreements on both the buyer's side and the seller's side.

Noah Feldman

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.

Jiang Zemin

Our consistent policy is to protect human rights according to law,

Henri Frederic Amiel

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Holly Hanson

People can get a very basic plan or they can be very specialized according to the services and care they think they may need.

Howard Sherman

Of the total audience increase of 650,000 over 2004, according to the League's data, it's important to realize that ticket sales for plays alone were up by 530,000. That means that four out of every five additional tickets sold this year were for a play. Clearly there is still a place for plays on Broadway, and hopefully this success will result in even more in coming seasons.

Tom Daschle

as consistent or regular as I think they should be.

Henry McVey

(The sale) would not surprise me. (It would be) consistent with what we have been saying about downsizing in international retail brokerage.

Dan Wheldon

It was an up-and-down day. My pace just wasn't consistent and that's what cost me.

Todd Coffey

The season's over, but now's the time I can actually work on some stuff. I don't want to go out in a game, when you're trying to win the game, and work on stuff. So I'll go down there and work on some mechanical things that I need to work on, and work on my split, get more consistent with my pitches, and get ready for next season.

Patrick Fearon

The service sector of the economy is still growing at a good pace and that is consistent with what we were seeing in the employment report for November.

Steven Wood

These data are consistent with slower but still solid economic activity.

Anthony Solomon

Isiah always gave a consistent effort for our program and he will be missed. At the same time, his departure creates opportunities for other individuals.

Derek Jeter

I've been with Mo for 14 years, so I've seen everything he's done. It's mind-boggling to look at how consistent he has been over the years. He is one of the main reasons for the success of this organization.

Dion Harris

I've been trying to come out and be a consistent player for the most part, and when it doesn't happen for you, of course it's frustrating.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Jimmy Wales

IAR is policy, always has been.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Dave Allison

That's huge. We didn't sit back and protect the lead, we went after it in the third period.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Evangelos Venizelos

Protect those who protect you.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Herman Edwards

We have to protect the quarterback. We haven't done that and we need to do that.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.