Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

Lance Palmer

It helps the bear out to not have to keep his mouth closed the whole time. It's kind of unfair to the bear to keep him muzzled. We want it to be fun. We don't want it to be a sport. That's why the animal activists don't know what they are taking about when they come out here and try and go against what we do.

Jonathan Tisch

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

Cindy Sheehan

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.

Chris Gabrieli

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Michael Phillips

The issue activists march. The electoral activists are talking to other students, they are working at campaign headquarters, and they are making trips to New Hampshire and Iowa and beyond.

Whitney Tilson

The key swing vote is the passive investors who decide whether to piggyback on what the activists are doing. For every dollar of activist money involved in a campaign, there is usually at least $10 of non-activist money involved.

Doug Freeman

The county convention gives the Democratic Party activists an opportunity to come together for a common effort. Politics is not a spectator nor an individual sport but, rather, a team effort to build the kind of communities, states and nation that all can be proud to call American. The Democratic Party of Henderson County is dedicated to citizen involvement in the political process.

Quentin Kidd

Allen has a position within the ideological spectrum of the Republican Party that serves him well in a primary. He's really appealing to the party activists within the Party. And that's good for candidates who are running in primaries.

Michelle Gomez

I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living.

Ron Artest

He carried us, he had energy. I loved it. It was cool. I love taunting. They need to apply that in the games. Legalize it. Legalize taunting.

George Herbert Mead

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

Jack Camper

What we favor is everybody coming out of the shadows, paying a fine and becoming part of a legal guest-worker program. That would not necessarily take away their right to apply for citizenship, but what it does say is you can be part of a guest-worker program and get in line with everybody else for citizenship.

Duncan Fletcher

It comes down to the first innings when you have to put on a big score and put some pressure on the opposition. We need to apply a lot more pressure in Mumbai.

Craig Thompson

I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.

Melissa Hughes

I think the fact that he's an actor himself helps. Having that experience, you know that there are rules and boundaries that apply between actors.

Jeffrey Sachs

we took on as a project helping a village in western Kenya. It was 5,000 hungry people beset with malaria and AIDS. And we said, 'let's apply the recommendations of the Millennium Project in this village with the support of a private donor, because government donors don't seem to do such practical things.' And we helped them get improved seeds and some fertilizer for the planting season. That's all. Very low cost. They produced four times more food this year than last year.

Michael Jackson

We're in the planning. Classes will start late this year or early next year. We want to train people with viable marketing skills and rudiments in entrepreneurial skills. You learn and apply it however you best need it.

Steve Brown

Having a place to live is great. I get to have my dog. I feel like a productive citizen again. It's a new lease on life.

Bob Baldwin

He's a great corporate citizen and does tremendous work in our community,

Mayor Cartmell

He's just the kind of model citizen we like to have ... He's just the nicest kid that you would ever want to know.

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

E. Helm

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, but we don't want it all in downtown in one area.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

Saul Garcia

I think it's very important to try to get the law to be more flexible, so that way (undocumented immigrants) can become legal immigrants. They deserve the right to stay here and become a citizen like I am.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Robert Jackson

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Jim Brown

Kids today don't have any idea about these tools, or what they were used for. It a good history lesson for them.

Buck Showalter

Knuckleball guys are going to have their ups and downs. This was a down for R.A., who's had some good ones for us. We'll sit down and talk about it.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Eric Lefkofsky

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

John Thaw

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.