Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Jakubowicz

The film is 100 percent Venezuelan-funded, ... We made the film at a time when the nation was in a civil war and there was a two-month oil strike. The nation stopped working.

Maina Kiai

The Head of the Civil Service should stop the use of private plates because ministers and other Government officials use the privilege to cover up abuse.

Jim Leach

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

Julian Castro

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Douglas Brinkley

The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.

Adnan Pachachi

The country is going through dangerous times, it faces challenges, and the perils come from every direction. Sectarian tensions have increased. We have to prove to the whole world that there will not be civil war between the people of this country. The danger is still there, and our enemies are watching us.

Walter Veltroni

The court's sentence contrasts with the principles of civil justice and is a worrying signal. It is a backward-looking ruling that strikes at ... the civil conscience of women and of the whole country.

Bruce Gordon

The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from time to time, to be reminded of our roots.

Charles Miller

This is all part of a civil action, and so consequently it's strictly to get the information we specifically requested. As regards that material, that is what it is being used for and that is all.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Mary Roberts Rinehart

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

Navid Negahban

I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.

Maria Cantwell

Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

Maria Bartiromo

Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

Naomi Klein

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

Paul R. Ehrlich

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

Paul Gillmor

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Larry Wachtel

It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Howard Nemerov

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

James Branch Cabell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Colin Powell

We now believe it is appropriate for Saddam Hussein to be forced to change, either by the threat of war, and therefore that compels him to cooperate. If he cooperates, then the basis of changed regime policy has shifted because his regime has, in fact, changed its policy to one of cooperation. So if he cooperates, then that is different than if he does not cooperate.

Colin Powell

There is a war on terror that must be fought. Nobody's immune. And so rather than finding fault with what someone has done by being aggressive in the war on terror, others should redouble efforts to go after terrorist organizations of any kind. Terror has to be brought to an end.

Claude C. Hopkins

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

Clara Barton

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

Clara Barton

If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

Clara Barton

I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Daniel Silva

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Daniel Quinn

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.