Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Cothran

This is an attempt to religiously sterilize the teaching of history in our schools.

Don Catlin

It's obfuscation. There is no attempt to be clear and concise and to describe the product for what it is.

George E. Pataki

They endured life-threatening ... conditions and executed an extremely difficult and dangerous rescue mission ... It took courage and heroism for people to conclude that they would make the effort and attempt that rescue mission.

Alejandro Toledo

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

Angelo Bitsis

There was no resistance, no attempt to flee or anything like that. It was a very, I hate to use the word, it was a very routine investigation and arrest. Just so happens that he's someone who is of some prominence and so everyone is making a big deal of it.

Subash Nemwang

This looks like another attempt by the king to fool the people. It is a desperate attempt to save the regime.

Kevin Hall

It is promising that, at least from the Senate side, there's been an attempt to strike a more welcoming and appropriate balance.

Pat Cahill

It's a final attempt to get a message to the board that a large group of people are very unhappy.

David Brickman

This is their feeble attempt to try and avoid paying.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Pixie Lott

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

Holly Brown

We got caught in the rain when they got their runs. But that's no excuse for our defensive play.

Joanna Burger

We had already done studies of fish in New Jersey and the Chicago Tribune caught on.

Rick Noble

It doesn't set us back. It was only a six-round fight. Carina didn't get stopped. Wendy got caught with a punch and they said it was a head butt.

Jonathan Scott

It doesn't really matter what people say. We plan on proving it. If you get caught up in what people say, you try to do things out of your nature. My momma taught me that.

Steve Hartman

It doesn't help that he's Jordanian. I think he's caught up in the Justice Department's vigorous work.

Troy Polamalu

It doesn't matter what I think. I know I caught it, fell, rolled over and obviously knocked it out with my knee.

Russ Ortiz

It doesn't matter to me. I'm not worried about all that stuff. I don't want to be caught up in all that, ... I just want to pitch and whatever happens happens. It's been a lot easier dealing with it that way.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Andrew Cuomo

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

Ambrose Bierce

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

Anna Quindlen

More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Jesse Toprak

Now, for vehicles priced under $40,000, it is one of the first questions people ask.

Cesar Romero

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Michael Behe

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Maurice Saatchi

Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.

Max Lerner

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Matthieu Ricard

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

Meg Cabot

It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness." Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle and stuff.

Maxim Gorky

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.