Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Jakubowicz

The film is 100 percent Venezuelan-funded, ... We made the film at a time when the nation was in a civil war and there was a two-month oil strike. The nation stopped working.

Maina Kiai

The Head of the Civil Service should stop the use of private plates because ministers and other Government officials use the privilege to cover up abuse.

Jim Leach

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

Julian Castro

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Douglas Brinkley

The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.

Adnan Pachachi

The country is going through dangerous times, it faces challenges, and the perils come from every direction. Sectarian tensions have increased. We have to prove to the whole world that there will not be civil war between the people of this country. The danger is still there, and our enemies are watching us.

Walter Veltroni

The court's sentence contrasts with the principles of civil justice and is a worrying signal. It is a backward-looking ruling that strikes at ... the civil conscience of women and of the whole country.

Bruce Gordon

The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from time to time, to be reminded of our roots.

Charles Miller

This is all part of a civil action, and so consequently it's strictly to get the information we specifically requested. As regards that material, that is what it is being used for and that is all.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Jack Kornfield

There is no higher happiness than peace.

Craig Venter

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Renee Ellmers

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

Anthony Chan

I think they feel the inflation risks are inching higher, but I don't think they're inching so much higher to suggest we have a serious problem at hand,

Maureen Allyn

Just as a warning: People better start bracing for higher oil prices later in the year.

Yuji Saito

Japanese investors are still looking for higher yields overseas. That's weighing on the yen.

Peter Cardillo

Last week, we encountered an ugly week for stocks as the market discounted higher interest rates,

Alex Kingston

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Alex Grey

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Albert Shanker

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

Debi Thomas

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

E. L. Konigsburg

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

E. L. Konigsburg

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

E. M. Forster

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Drew Carey

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Doug E. Fresh

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Colin Powell

We now believe it is appropriate for Saddam Hussein to be forced to change, either by the threat of war, and therefore that compels him to cooperate. If he cooperates, then the basis of changed regime policy has shifted because his regime has, in fact, changed its policy to one of cooperation. So if he cooperates, then that is different than if he does not cooperate.

Colin Powell

There is a war on terror that must be fought. Nobody's immune. And so rather than finding fault with what someone has done by being aggressive in the war on terror, others should redouble efforts to go after terrorist organizations of any kind. Terror has to be brought to an end.

Claude C. Hopkins

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

Clara Barton

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

Clara Barton

If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

Clara Barton

I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Daniel Silva

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Daniel Quinn

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.