Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Dale Easley

Three hundred teams started the season, and we're in the final four. Our goal is to get to 8 o'clock (tonight).

Chris Redfield

We gave up seven offensive rebounds in the final period and we have to improve on that.

Robert Jackson

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.

Joanne Boyle

We fought at the end, but we didn't come out and play 40 minutes. We were trying to do it all in the final 3:45 and that wasn't going to work.

Chris Griffin

We have a lot of guys that can run and I think we just wore them down in the second half. That could have something to do with the final score. But I think that is another thing that makes us a very good team.

Monique Currie

We've lost the last two years in that game to get to the Final Four. To finally get over that, I think we'll be more relaxed once we start playing again.

Pete Domenici

We've done our work. It's getting prepared, the final wrap up.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Phil Mickelson

The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

Marco Rubio

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

Marcus Aurelius

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

Marcus Aurelius

Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

Marcus Aurelius

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Robert Greene

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

Thomas Jefferson

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

Thomas Jefferson

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

Thomas Jefferson

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

Thomas Jefferson

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Fritz Haber

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

Ben Braaten

No matter what, we are going to pressure the ball.

Galvin Morris

No matter what the score is, they've now been in that situation. They now can say we've been there before and we can come back.

Bruce Lowry

Any time we're a subject matter of one of these rumors we don't talk. There's nothing to be gained.

Peter Medawar

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.