Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Brooks

We believe that the attack was effective in causing destruction of that facility. ... As to who was inside and what their conditions are, it will take some time before we can make that full determination.

Leith Kubba

We strongly condemn these attacks and offer our condolences to the families of the victims.

Billy Gillispie

We stood around and watched and weren't really aggressive. Our zone attack was very stinky today, without question.

Meghan McGuire

We stood around a lot on offense in the last game. Their defense really shut us down. They pressured us the way that we want to pressure other teams, so we have to attack that pressure and make them pay for it.

Dan Martin

We started out pretty aggressive, then we just didn't attack enough. Central made some adjustments and started plugging the inside. We got some outside shots (3-for-14 on three-pointers), but they weren't falling. You can't fault our effort.

Scott Wilson

We started out kind of sluggish, but we made some adjustments and came out and attacked the basket and handled the ball better.

Christopher Dodd

We stand completely and totally behind our president. We may have our differences from time to time, but on a day like this, which rivals or not exceeds the attack on Pearl Harbor, we stand united behind our president and our government.

Diane Tuller

We spread the attack out well. We've got a lot of good hitters and we try to set them all.

Michael Ashcroft

We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Elizabeth Gregory

We actually choose the schools that we work with in each location, so basically we evaluate them based on curriculum, facilities, reputation and cost.

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Charles Dickens

The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

Charles Dickens

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

Charles Dickens

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Charles Dickens

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Charles Stewart Parnell

No man has the right to say to his country

Charles Stewart Parnell

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Charles Sturt

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

Alan Paton

There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.

Alan Moore

In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

Peter Drucker

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

Reg Keys

If this war had been justified by international law I would have grieved and not campaigned,

Jeff Cooper

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

Graham Chapman

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Jerry Bridges

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

Henry Tsoi

The ratings upgrade is justified because things in Hong Kong are really improving.

Eric Wilson

I made a mistake, and I'm going to rectify that. Whether the money is justified or not is something that should be discussed.

Johannes Rau

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

Justin Timberlake

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Bertrand Russell

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Charlotte Bronte

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Chanakya

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

Charles Mackay

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Bill McCollum

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Catherine the Great

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.