Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Michael Leunig

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

Robby Gordon

People started asking me almost immediately after the race if they could have my helmet, and rather than just giving it away, we'll use it to raise more money. Obviously I'm still angry about getting wrecked intentionally, but at the end of the day I still have a house to go home to which is a lot more than a lot of people can say.

Jonathan Tucker

People can be treated with widely available antibiotics, ... If they (people who have been exposed) are treated within 24 hours, they are almost assured to be cured. After that period, it can be more difficult.

Peter Cole

People go to the beach and too often they just leave their litter. There are receptacles at almost every beach ... and there's no reason why they can't pick up after themselves.

Chris Thomas

People came in sick. It's cold at night, almost freezing temperatures. The rain has continued off and on the last couple of days. It doesn't bode well for their health.

Dave Girouard

On the Web, there's almost nothing you can't get through the single search box. We're looking to extend that to the enterprise, so that people are searching not just documents and Web pages, but are able to get contact info, customer info and inventory levels all with one click -- whatever they need to get the job done.

Buddy Dyer

Orlando's experiencing a true renaissance in its downtown, a place where you can live, work and play.. with almost $2 billion of new construction, and the catalyst for it all was the Premiere Trade Plaza,

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Wally Schirra

As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

David Wu

The business of America must be more than just business, and engagement must be through more than just the cash register... Real engagement sees the Chinese people as real people, people like us, people with aspirations, with hopes, people who aspire to walk the path of freedom.

Richard Grimes

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

William Cullen Bryant

A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

Kofi Annan

Sadly, the reality of the international trading system today does not match the rhetoric. Instead of open markets, there are too many barriers that stunt, stifle and starve,

Kathleen Sebelius

What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

Hugh Williams

You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.

David Foley

Those are significant barriers for us. But ... we're taking a long-term perspective. We're going take our time to build our brand, build our customers. We still believe this market has a great potential.

Kevin Meidl

We'll meet those children, we'll hear their music and do an honest musical exchange and get to know them, learn how they live and what they believe. Therefore we're not just coming as tourists but as people that are open for as much learning and sharing as possible and breaking down barriers whether those are real or just preconceived notions.

Todd Tiahrt

Many countries are preparing for the future economy, and this country seems to be trying to erect new barriers to making us more competitive.

David Card

When you break down the barriers between communications, every IM user is able to send and receive more messages, which means they'll be spending a little more time on their messenger, and get a few more impressions.

Mary McDowell

We're going after the full 650 million corporate e-mail in-boxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate e-mail market.

Michael Pariza

One of the great strong points of this university is the lack of institutional barriers to this kind of thing. In some very top-down universities, it's very hard to collaborate with people outside your departments, if not impossible. But here, it's quite open and has been for quite some time.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Danny Glover

The breaking point was to stand outside on 116th Street and have five cabs pass me up.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Chris McKay

Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice.

Curtis Staples

I've always said, like the old saying goes, records are meant to be broken. J.J. has been a hard worker and deserves everything that he gets. I'm glad to see somebody like J.J. breaking it. He's a very significant player that we will never forget.

William Hazlitt

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Joe Glenn

So when I saw his pads getting down and the pads popping and him breaking tackles and him running hard into the sideline and putting his shoulder down getting 4 more, he showed me a ton. I'm excited about the way he played and the toughness he showed and his speed.

Howard Wolfson

Sometimes numbers speak louder than words. These numbers aren't breaking a whisper.

Mark Ford

We need to live on this planet in a much more enhanced way.

Phil Dixon

The only misgiving that I think has existed is that this is on the fast track.

Jim Rogers

with more money than knew existed in the world.

Jim Lovell

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

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.

Mitch Albom

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

Harvey Pitt

We'll come down with a sledgehammer on any improper relationships, any improper conflicts.

Jason Kilar

The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.

Jay-Z

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Jane Birkin

I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.

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.

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.

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.

Ban Ki-moon

From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Derrick Bell

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Brendon Urie

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.