Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thaksin Shinawatra

We have no involvement at all, ... We don't have any detention or secret jails or whatever.

Sudip Pathak

The number of disappearances and illegal detention by the state has, however, considerably decreased in the review period.

Monte Kwinter

It really isn't a suitable facility for them to be in a provincial detention centre, which is really geared to people who are there for relatively short periods of time,

B. F. Skinner

There's an expansion in the detention operations going on.

James Zogby

It was a very good meeting. He's listening and he's setting a good tone. We've still got some problems to work through, especially detention and profiling.

Michael Ignatieff

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.

Kate Allen

As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, to go undetected and to go unpunished.

Mark Harris

I should be working with 20 detention officers. Instead I have 17. It's gotten to the point where I'm worried about my safety.

Ted Kennedy

We will not be able to move past this scandal as a nation until there is full independent investigation of all that has gone wrong in our detention and interrogation policy, and all the persons found responsible for these shameful policies are held accountable,

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Abdul Aziz

The (number) of forces taking part in security in the hajj this year is around 60,000.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Allan Mayer

The movie star is past its peak in terms of its power. Which is not to say it's not very powerful, but people are realizing that other forces at work are more powerful, which no one can quite identify yet.

Jerry Jones

Some teams had to sacrifice to get this done. This proposal (from the union) is really a mean mother. It forces us to really make some adjustments to how we do business.

Nancy Corona

Some don't stop and just keep going until weather forces them down.

Doug Melvin

Sometimes, you have to meet face-to-face to get things done. It forces the issue.

Geoff Hoon

the right group of forces for the sort of tasks that may be necessary.

Condoleezza Rice

This is not the Gulf War coalition, where we all mobilize our military forces and march off to war after 100 days,

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

James Blake

Wow ... that would be something. I?d think we?d need to hold a big party at Fairfield High. It would be huge.

Mark Rodgers

We're still sitting tight to see how this is going to break. We're kind of in a holding pattern.

David Briggs

We're still in that pattern. Everyone is on hold and waiting for the next (quarterly results) pre-announcement season in September.

Anne Bacon

We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Mark Forest

Absentee voters used to be a unique demographic group. Now they're more likely to look like the rest of the state with each passing election.

Jim Dyke

The more we get the message out, the more likely we think people will become excited.

James Johnston

The more they need you, the more likely it is you're going to get clauses that you want in the agreement.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Khuram Chaudhry

It seems like the U.S. markets are likely to see a sloppy start after Friday's sessions,

John Schneider

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

Charles Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Alan Patricof

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Alan Paton

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Al Oerter

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Akio Morita

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

David Hume

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Carson McCullers

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

Al Jourgensen

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Charles Krauthammer

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

Dmitry Medvedev

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

Brigitte Bardot

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Ben Linder

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Eddie Vedder

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Eddie Vedder

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Angela Merkel

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Cindy Crawford

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.