Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

William Odom

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

Bayard Rustin

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Roderick Jackson

who will understand their key role in protecting our civil rights, who will recognize the significant impact of their decisions on our everyday lives.

John C. Calhoun

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.

Barack Obama

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Holly Cartner

The government's crackdown on civil society is unprecedented, even in Uzbekistan's 14-year history of repression since independence from the Soviet Union.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Deena Kastor

It was one of my expectations as my training has been going so well. I did want to run faster but I wasn't feeling it early on. I managed to hold on to go under 2:20 which was my main goal.

Jordan Beck

It's too early to tell what's going to happen right now. Hopefully I'll get back soon and won't have to miss much time.

Dave Cassels

It is very important we get the players registered as early as possible.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brian Miller

We didn't execute as well offensively as we have the past few games. Rachel getting in foul trouble early on impacted the game, but we got some good offensive production without her, which is good so that we know we can get points from other places with sectionals approaching.

Brian Fischer

We have been doing that quite a bit. It's good for us early in the year to come back and win games like that. I think it'll make us a better team.

Lara Pulver

I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.

Bobby Flay

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

Bill Gates

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.