Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Mark Shapiro

Coco and Grady have similar skills, and we're extremely excited about Grady's future. Coco profiles best as a center fielder, which allowed us to be opportunistic and get a whole lot of value for him, which, in the end, was too much to turn down.

Pat Riley

Antoine is capable of having an outrageous night. I was going to sub for him but I just wanted to get him one more possession. We allowed Antoine to bring it up a couple of times. He hit a three and I kept him in the game.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent companyin this case, Enronis not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company in this case, Enron is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company - in this case, Enron - is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent company -- in this case, Enron -- is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

An insolvent companyùin this case, Enronùis not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Peter Sellars

And the other great thing that we're allowed to do and you're not is use metaphor.

Iyanla Vanzant

a very powerful, although delicate, chemistry between the way Dr. Katz, Miss Britten and I work. I'm committed to this process. I'm committed to 'Starting Over.'

Robert Toll

Demand at our communities, which began to soften in early September, now appears to be improving, although demand pressure from speculators has certainly passed.

Frank Hadden

Colin Noon is someone who interests me greatly. I tried to sign him for Edinburgh a couple of times and although I would have to speak to other selectors before making a decision.

Richard Thompson

A point each was probably a fair result, although I think we just edged it. Their goalkeeper played particularly well with three or four excellent saves.

James Matthews

The size and frequency of stock and other long-term incentives are on the rise in most parts of the world, although we are seeing a decline in the use of stock options in some developed economies, particularly the United States.

John Kostecki

After a long period of very light winds and difficult clouds, the breeze has finally filled in a little more consistently although its still under 10 knots. At this rate we would take 21 days to complete the leg.

Jeff Tjornehoj

Performance varies quite a bit, although the sector funds have had a lot of success the past few years.

Michael Oxley

I've never met John Roberts personally, although he was a young lawyer on President Reagan's staff at about the same time that I came to Congress in the early 1980s,

David McKeown

These deaths are an unfortunate reminder that West Nile virus can be a serious health threat, although death is extremely rare.

Jason Stearns

The threats haven't worked and the U.N. and the Congolese army have failed to get rid of all these armed groups.

Mike Healy

The victim saw a group. He has stated there were approximately 10 persons, all young males, who approached. One from that group was armed with a handgun.

Linda Foley

This is something that we have been screaming about for years. Our most vulnerable populations due to overexposure of their Social Security numbers are students, seniors and members of the armed forces.

Laura Yecies

Zone Labs has always been known as the leader in complete Internet security solutions. Yet as hackers get more savvy and the PC becomes a commodity worth monetary value on the black market, consumers must also use care as they surf the 'Net. Armed with the right information, people can defend the integrity of the Internet and defeat those who would exploit it for criminal purposes.

Terry Ebbert

There are gangs of armed men in the city moving around the city.

Denny Martin

We're armed and ready. We definitely have the pitchers. This is probably the best pitching staff I've had since I've been here. We'll go as far as our pitching takes us.

Franz Beckenbauer

We have provided the World Cup with as much security as possible. I don't see why the armed forces shouldn't be called in if needed.

Angelo Reyes

We have placed our entire police forces and armed forces on red alert.

Cao Gangchuan

Enhancing military relations between the two armed forces is conducive to further improvement of bilateral ties,

Samantha Power

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

John Updike

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

Michael Johns

No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire'.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Gunter Thielen

During the first half of the year, Bertelsmann established the foundations for continued future growth, ... I am very pleased at our improved return on sales.

Robert LeBlanc

This is part of our push and continued acceleration of our investments in SOA

Jim Sullivan

The weight of evidence is showing housing is starting to cool. Prices have continued to rise faster than income. For a while that pattern has been offset by declining mortgage rates, but that's stopped.

Carol Olson

The way the East Valley is growing, I foresee a continued steady increase over the next several years here.

John Silvia

This good news supports the view of continued economic and employment gains with limited upside risk of rising interest rates.

Lee Moak

That time is now. Management's continued intransigence at the negotiating table requires an appropriate response to a continued inappropriate and stubborn behavior.

Peter Wilt

Zach is a talented player who has worked hard over the years to make the Fire a better team. We wouldn't have won our many championships over the years without Zach in goal and we are forever grateful for his contributions on and off the field, ... We respect Zach's decision and wish him continued success in his career.

Philippe Petit

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

Mafumi Usui

Depressed, young people and the Internet - it's a very dangerous mix.

Becky Hammon

They are a lot more dangerous now. She's exactly what they needed.

Dan McCarthy

This is developing into a potentially dangerous situation.

Jeff Last

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

Daniel H. Wilson

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Phyllis Bottome

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice

Frank O'Donnell

We should be doing much more to try to reduce this dangerous pollution.

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Jeff Jordan

Now, making payments is as easy as sending a text message.

Joni Mitchell

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.

Brevin Knight

Sometimes you get easy shots and that is what gets you going. That's our formula: Get steals, get easy shots.

Mark Walters

Teams might be keying on him a little more than they previously had. He's not getting the easy shots that he was.

Lance Huber

Sometimes, it's not easy to win with all the good players.

Andrea Yates

Sometimes Andrea liked to take the hard road instead of the easy road.

Robert Morse

See how easy it is?, ... They just wait and prey.

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Steve Barnes

I've never seen anything like this in my life. The smell was putrid. And when the wind blew, you couldn't escape it.

Jay Heck

It would be hard to see how the other defendants are going to escape any penalty given what's happened here.

Elaine Vogel

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

William Shakespeare

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Peggy Smith

We didn't know about her trying to escape until after court, ... Now she faces two more charges.

Dan Clark

Nobody's plotting to escape the accountability; they're just trying to help students get a fair chance. These are not malicious errors.

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

Alex Miller

What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing.

Anne Carson

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

Thomas Jefferson

Question boldly even the existence of God.

Victoria Gotti

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

Shakira

If you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

Michael Sheen

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

John Searle

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Alija Izetbegovic

spoke of the existence of 'extermination camps' in Bosnia.

Lord Byron

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence

Jenny Lewis

What motivates me to go to Washington is that, during World War II, so much of the world stood idly by as the genocide happened.

Tim Walz

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

Dick Cheney

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

Ayn Rand

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

John Grisham

We didn't want to leave. You feel guilty because you can hop on a plane and come back home where everything works and everything is standing,

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

Robert A. Heinlein

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Max Lucado

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Mason Cooley

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

William Moffitt

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Geoffrey Moore

And the number of ISVs is meaningless. The issue is what the power players are doing. Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest positions, so a solution that doesn't have their endorsement isn't likely to get very far.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Ron Klein

This is an issue that people are talking about. They want it fixed.

Patrick Kelly

This isn't an issue that's relevant to our research.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Argus Hamilton

President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.

Anthony Weiner

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

Barbara Lee

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl von Clausewitz

The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Carl von Clausewitz

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Dr. House

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Craig Brown

This is not the right solution to the problem.

Michael Vickers

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

James Wolfensohn

HIPC is not a solution to poverty. HIPC is one step.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Claude LeBas

We need to work out a solution here.

Stephen Atkinson

The worst is yet to come, ... You're going to see more shutdowns.

Augusten Burroughs

I'm always prepared for the worst.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Demi Lovato

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

Dean Koontz

the worst happens when you least expect it

Alec Baldwin

You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.

David Platt

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

Usain Bolt

Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.

Sophocles

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills