Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

Andrew Grossman

Unprecedented in its size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad of problems Wal-Mart creates, ... Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen.

Martina Horvathova

We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.

James Nash

We want our citizens of Houston and our citizens from New Orleans to know that we've got to come together as one and we do that by communicating, by sharing.

J. J. Johnson

We were trying so hard not to do something that would upset this man and get one of our citizens killed. ... Everything had to be read from a script.

Bob McDonnell

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

Kim Campbell

Whether you come from Port Alberni on the West Coast as I do, or from Port-Cartier on the shores of the St. Lawrence, we all share the rare privilege of being citizens of one of the greatest countries in the world.

Maria Rodriguez

We're getting used to people on the street. Now it's time to get residents to become citizens and citizens to vote.

Dick Durbin

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

Charles Dickens

Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.

Charles Stuart Calverley

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

Charles Stanley

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

Charles Spurgeon

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

Alan Paton

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

Alan Moore

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

Alan Jackson

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Alan Beck

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!

Alan Cooper

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

Lev Yilmaz

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

Jordan Metzl

We were always encouraged to do whatever it was we wanted to do. There was never a goal that was too high or too crazy.

Keeley Hawes

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

Richard Murray

We're really excited about it. We're also encouraged by the number of competitors who've signed up. So long as the weather holds up, we should have a great day.

Martha Stewart

They have a lot of time to think and plan for the future, and they should be encouraged to,

Paul Singer

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans.

Laura Nunez

They didn't mind. They wanted me to play with them. They encouraged me to play.

Magnus Magnusson

You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Lewis B. Hershey

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

James Hoffa

We have a strategy to train workers to rebuild their communities, ... We must learn from this tragedy and help these workers start over. We must help our fellow Americans build new communities and new lives.

Bill Frist

We have no higher responsibility to our fellow Americans than protecting the homeland. Our lives, our freedoms, our liberties are at stake.

Elaine Chao

Workers in these temporary jobs will be involved in the provision of food, shelter and other services to fellow Mississippians,

Dean Rusk

We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.

LaRae Quy

A male was observed by his fellow passengers as having a journal and hand written on the journal were the words 'suicide bomber.

Charles M. Schwab

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

Maurice Cheeks

We're going to spread it around a little bit. We're not going to be a one-man, two-man team.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Louis C. K.

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

Bill O'Reilly

Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

Bill O'Reilly

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

Bill Moyers

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

David Tudor

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

William Jennings Bryan

Principles are eternal...

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.

Charles Koch

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

Bill Jenkins

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

John Adams

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Harry Aleman

They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!

Don Harris

For a lot of recreational athletes, the principle is very important. It's even more important as you age.

Douglas Brinkley

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

Douglas Brinkley

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Dan Kaiser

We had to take two schools out of the Reagan area.