Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Harris

This is a different jurisdiction. He hasn't been convicted of any offense in Hong Kong. There's no reason why he should not be able to return to his job.

Robert Zoellick

There's going to be no deal here with Aleman on the part of the United States, ... a convicted criminal.

Elaine Makatura

We have no way of knowing if they were a convicted felon, or whether they were telling the truth if they said they weren't one.

S. Hughes

We know she doesn't want him convicted of this murder, ... She wants him out so they can have their life together.

Bob Conlin

If a person is convicted of something while in state service, they do not automatically lose their benefits. There's no provision in state law for something like that.

Joseph Estrada

I have mixed feelings. I welcome this opportunity to present my side because I was denied that right in the impeachment trial when prosecutors walked out. I was convicted in the streets.

Joseph Estrada

I was not able to defend myself and was convicted in the street.

M. Wolfe

We're dealing with young people who want to go to school. People who are convicted of a drug offense should be encouraged to get an education.

Robert Stein

If he's convicted and is forced to step down he can be replaced. The question is what happens if the trial is postponed or delayed until after the election.

Michael Specter

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.

Alex Williams

We're in a do-it-yourself mega-trend where people can do it themselves. It's so much easier to write to the Web, talk to the Web and put images on the Web.

Louis C. K.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

Mark Recchi

We have to get better at it. That's one are where we really, really have to get better. Not enough desperation. Once we get that we'll make it a lot easier on ourselves.

Brian Durocher

We want opponents to know we are going to put up a fight. Unfortunately, we made it a little easier for Maine. We should have extra motivation the next time out.

Greg Ellis

We would've hated going into the bye at 4-4, ... It's a big swing for us, even though it's only one game. We had some good things out there, but there are still things that need to be fixed. It's easier to go back and fix them on a positive note, going into the bye with a win.

Fabio Lara

With this grouping, the market thinks it will be easier for shares to go up. But it is really only psychological.

Greg Lee

We're still going to throw the ball. Being able to run is going to make it a lot easier for us to throw.

Mike DeRoche

Were hoping they can take over the whole operation. It will make it easier on us.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Nick Offerman

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Nonso Anozie

'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.

Raghav Bahl

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Audrey Hepburn

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Lucio Tan

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Michael Franti

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

Cass Gilbert

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Chen Guangcheng

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Chris Christie

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Chris Christie

We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Edward Gibbon

It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.

Edward Gibbon

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Edward Gibbon

It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.

Edward Gibbon

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

Dean Acheson

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

David Brooks

America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.

Benazir Bhutto

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.