Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arlen Specter

I am concerned about the Supreme Court's judicial activism which has usurped congressional authority,

Brad Barber

Institutional activism is a double-edged sword. When prudently applied, activism can provide effective monitoring of publicly traded corporations. When abused, portfolio managers can pursue their personal agendas at the expense of those whose money they manage.

Louis DeSipio

It has the potential to be a foundation for expanded voter turnout and other forms of civic activism but that will require more than just a single weekend or a single week of activism.

Angelina Jolie

I'm certain the stories in this special will inspire viewers the same way these experiences have inspired me, and I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

Wayne Marshall

I hadn't realized before that there was a way for me to unite my passion for music, my intellectual interest, and social activism because I'm interested in the way that music can tell stories about society and can challenge our assumptions.

Brad Barber

In general, activism like this makes good sense as long as it's focused on issues that improve shareholder value.

Jimmy Buffett

The message of this movie is not only that our kids are smarter than adults, but it's our world that they're going to inherit, and it's great to see activism at that early age.

Michael Ignatieff

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.

Patti Smith

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

Paul Lee

Hattiesburg has grown to support this civic chorus.

Benny Johnson

I think that was a horrific thing for a civic leader to say in a public broadcast. It would be really hard to hold a public office and harbor feelings like that.

Malik Rahim

Our mission is just two things, to restore hope and teach civic responsibility.

Elizabeth Goreham

Civic engagement is very important. We all live here together and we need to look out for one another.

Michael Jones

The idea down here is you (still) have civic responsibility.

Richard Stengel

It is through their generosity that we will be able to create these seven civic and public initiatives that will help us truly live up to the 'National' in our name.

Chris Poland

The design of the new Civic is a big departure from the previous model, and its shape and features presented us with many manufacturing challenges. When you talk about the manufacturing of a vehicle like the new Civic, we want to meet the needs of the design team, while also improving production processes in terms of quality, safety, and effectiveness of the manufacturing process.

William Mills

The construction boosted local employment, ... It boosted civic pride.

Michael Leunig

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Mary Bailey

I went through working in many mediums before settling on wood. I like it as a medium. It is non-toxic, versatile in the forms you can get, and has a nice tactile quality.

James Thurber

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thomas Jefferson

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Lisa Stanford

It's one of the worst forms you can have. There's not always a good outlook of this.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Cyrus Broacha

As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

Andrew Williamson

Banqueting forms an integral part of doing business.

Alan Greenspan

of interest-only loans and the introduction of more-exotic forms of adjustable-rate mortgages are developments of particular concern.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Trisha Goddard

You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.

Tracy Morgan

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

Samuel Gompers

Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.

Jim Fassel

I'm trying to tweak things, ... because we've got to get our running game going. It's the foundation for us.

Larry MacIntyre

The larger research programs that the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health are sponsoring require a machine like this to manage such large amounts of data.

Narendra Modi

Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.

Joe McInerney

A good night's sleep has become the foundation of selling hotel rooms.

Paul Herbert

I think it could be significant, and a potential drawback.

Lori Enright

Her scoring potential would be a lot higher.

Kamerion Wimbley

I think their potential scares us the most. I still think they have the talent to be one of the top teams in the nation.

Adam Turville

I think we showed through a little bit. We saw a little of our potential.

John LaMattina

I think this will be the norm. When you have something new, there is the theoretical potential for harm.

Pete DiPol

He has the potential to do whatever he wants.

Alex Wong

PCCW still has more upside potential but I think we will see some resistance when it reaches HK$15.5,

Jerry Jones

It has the potential to have that kind of impact.

E. O. Wilson

It has the potential to be politically damaging,

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

John Lloyd Young

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Malin Akerman

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

Benjamin Franklin

Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.

Steve Schultz

It may require some bor­row­ing, using the village's bond­ing agreement.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Noam Chomsky

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Clinton Solomon

I had a lot of support from my mom. She was my backbone. She's a single parent, she's been through my ups and downs, and she just told me to keep a straight head, that it wasn't over.

Scott Clavenna

In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.

Joseph Addison

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Washington Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

William Hague

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.

Kesha Rogers

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

Nelson Mandela

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

Mike Huckabee

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

Carly Fiorina

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Riz Ahmed

I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.

Robert Redford

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.

Kevin Bacon

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

Kelley Armstrong

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

Leo Golembiewski

You can't underestimate your opponent, and we did that all weekend long.

Eric Benet

My wife and I are parents to a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's really important for me to always be there for bath time and breakfast time and on the weekends.

Ricky Stuart

It's been a very costly weekend for the club.