Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viktor Yushchenko

This decision puts Ukraine on the verge of civil conflict.

Donnie Williams

This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldier and was willing to give up his life in a war for us. He was also a soldier in another way - a civil rights soldier - and he did die for us all.

John Chavez

It's about time we exercised some of our civil rights.

Patrick Guerriero

this legislature's vote could be reversed, and not only could we lose civil marriage equality, we could also backpedal and lose domestic partner benefits.

Eric Seitz

It wasn't his fault. The whole thing was a mistake and the company (Trash Man) has taken responsibility and paid a civil fine.

Stephanie Cutter

It will be an issue. When it comes down to it, he's on the wrong side of civil rights.

Ramon Sanchez

It's a victory for justice and civil rights. It's a victory for people who have nothing at all except the dream of living in freedom.

Beth Givens

It's a well-reasoned decision, and it does minimize privacy and civil liberties implications.

Julian Bond

It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.

Kyle Walker

From a voter's perspective, it's a very simple process. They register to vote. They go to vote. And that's all that they should be concerned with.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Allan Payne

We will have discussions with everyone concerned about the future shape of the IRB series.

Jim Williams

We are working on that, we're concerned about that, and the last thing we want to do is discourage traffic. We've got to come up with solutions that meet people's needs.

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.

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.

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,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Robert Henri

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

Richard Branson

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

Richard Branson

Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.

Rumi

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.

Toni Morrison

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Thuy Trang

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

Stephen Colbert

I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

Soulja Boy

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Kerry Washington

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Mahatma Gandhi

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Mahatma Gandhi

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

James Joyce

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

George Farquhar

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

Ellen Glasgow

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.