Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Sharpton

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

Johannes Laitenberger

A boycott of Danish goods is by definition a boycott of European goods. We do not consider a boycott of any kind a good means to react.

Johannes Laitenberger

A boycott of Danish goods is by definition a boycott of European goods. A boycott hurts the economic interests of all parties.

Oliver Houston

This boycott is symbolic - one game is not going to cripple the club financially.

Abraham Foxman

It is shocking and ironic that this one-sided boycott effort comes at a time when Israel is making a series of dramatic steps toward peace, including the recent withdrawal from Gaza.

Khalil Dulaimi

After what happenedthe defense team was confronted with only one choice the boycott of a court that has no legitimacy, (is) unconstitutional and has already taken a prior decision to convict the President.

Leith Kubba

Defense lawyers have said they will boycott the next court hearing scheduled for November 28. The High Tribunal is the only one able to rule on this, and is free to appoint other lawyers or choose any other solution.

Peter Power

Any boycott of Danish goods would be seen as a boycott of European goods.

Louis Honore

This is a public uprising. This has spread through the region like wildfire. And the boycott has been practically 100 %.

David Brooks

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

Kami Snyder

We actually back it up by file and give you the choice on which files are most critical to you.

Denis Waitley

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

Deepika Padukone

I am the universe. Infinite in every direction. This is my choice

Michael Steele

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

Gene Dolnick

We've also had the opportunity to work with Dr. Long for six years. We've seen him grow professionally. I have the utmost confidence that Dr. Long is the right choice for this job.

Rahul Dravid

There are choices to make and someone will be unlucky. That is how life is.

Lee Bermejo

Color is definitely an important factor for me during all phases of producing a cover. I always start out with a loose idea of what I want to see when I'm doing my initial sketches. This choice can be informed by anything, but I usually tend to lean toward more simple color schemes... something with a very obvious push between warms and cools.

Deyon Pitter

When you take a step of faith, obstacles are removed and doors are opened. Do not stand there wondering if you made the right choice, but keep on moving as your destiny lies ahead.

Mark Fulghum

They were confronted by three men. The man was hit over the head and they were robbed.

David Horowitz

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.

Sam Buell

They're going to be confronted for the first time with lots of detailed questions that they didn't face before because the questioners didn't know all the facts yet.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

John Hickenlooper

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

Bob Fredericks

The temptation employers are going to be confronted with is to look at this as a way to reduce expenses.

Ken Starr

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

Kara Walker

I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.

Henry Hyde

The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions. Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Ai Weiwei

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

Jacques Chirac

a man of courage and conviction who has incarnated, for 40 years, the fight of Palestinians for the recognition of their national rights.

Paul Chavez

They set the stage for everything. Nobody showed the kind of conviction these men did.

Paul Harris

This is a different jurisdiction. He hasn't been convicted of any offense in Hong Kong. There's no reason why he should not be able to return to his job.

Jerome Cohen

They expect the court to convict somebody of obtaining state secrets. This is never-never land.

Leonard Sand

There was a time when the crime itself determined the sentence. It used to be if someone is convicted of premeditated murder, the state said the punishment was death, ... That is no longer the case.

Dennis Perry

There is tremendous conviction here that people will not let it happen. Democracy is not working here, it's the only route we've got.

Joe Kalinowski

It was strong enough to say with conviction that we're not going to come to grinding halt, but weak enough that the Fed can stay on hold, ... It's Goldilocks again.

William Steere

We want to see how it plays out in the court and how it plays out in the market,

Michael Clarke

The person I heard in the courtroom was not the real Dennis,

Nathaniel Persily

We are at a defining moment. The court is going to decide when political parties go too far in rigging electoral districts for their own advantage.

James Greer

We stress El Camino tradition all the time. It's our job to hold court at home like so many of the past El Camino teams did. EC pride means simply not losing.

Donald Copeland

We spread the court well. Grant, who is an excellent passer, he's able to see over defenses.

William Shakespeare

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

John Roberts

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

Salih Mutlaq

We have no court in Iraq to trust.

Jim Gorman

We want fans to see them off the court as well as on it.

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

David Drake

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid of making decisions.

Barney Frank

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

Armstrong Williams

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

Raheem Brock

We want to show our defense is going to be better.

Guy Greening

We are pretty strong at defense and midfielder.

Pam Adams

We've always been known for our defense. We have so many seniors and they've worked so hard. Defense is just what we try to do.

Tyrell Sutton

We've all had a month to prepare for this game, so they've all been studying us in and out. Everyone hyped this up to be an offensive game, and definitely the defense stepped up better than the offense did.

Hill Denson

We usually play better defense than that. That's usually the thing that keeps us in games.

Jack Smith

We started playing better on defense and I think Eagle Valley got a little worn down. In the third and fourth quarters, they (Rifle) kept the intensity up, which I appreciate.

Dan Dersam

We started playing better defense and took charge. We did some good things offensively and played much better defense in the second half.

Gene Constantino

We struggle sometimes on offense, but we play hard on defense every second we're out there.

Sheila Gerding

We struggled for everything on offense all night. Give Dickinson State's defense credit, they worked hard.

Alan Ritchson

I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

John Roberts

Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.

Bill Moyers

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"

Alan Lakein

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Cheryl Richardson

I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

Benjamin Franklin

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Bill Gates

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Blanche Lincoln

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Tim Stanley

It was on the top of my priority list.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

Alan Watts

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

Alan Bennett

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

Alan Arkin

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.

Akshay Kumar

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.