Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As California is home to more legal immigrants than any other state in the country, we would shoulder a disproportionate share of this federal funding reduction,

Carol Thorp

Prices went up throughout Southern California this past week, but not at as rapid a pace as we've seen during other gas price spikes. It's likely that increases will continue for at least the next few weeks.

Shaun Stenshol

I've always wanted to come to Los Angeles. California is known as an environmentally friendly state and LA is the car capital of the world. What better place to do bio-diesel than Los Angeles?

M. Hopper

The White House wants California to march in lockstep with its misguided prohibition of medical marijuana, but the Constitution says otherwise. The federal government cannot force California or the city of Santa Cruz to make medical marijuana use a crime, nor can the federal government use the threat of criminal prosecution to intentionally sabotage state and local laws that it does not like.

Kevin Cathcart

That's why we have a Constitution, to make sure nobody's fundamental rights are trampled because of the latest public opinion poll. Whether or not Gov. Schwarzenegger fulfills his promise to be a governor for all the people of California by signing this bill, we will continue to work within the judicial system until same-sex couples in California have full equality.

Jamie Dimon

We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.

Camille Guaty

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

Bruce Dern

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

Tyrone Willingham

We have quite a few players from California so it makes it easier for their families to get there and see them play,

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Jeff Cox

A president who does not have the confidence of the faculty cannot change the university.

Akio Yoshino

A possible slowdown in the U.S. economy is clear. Demand for overseas goods cannot be sustained at the current level.

African Proverb

A razor may be sharper than an ax, but it cannot cut wood.

Jahangir Khan

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

Richard H. Davis

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

Barham Salih

The state cannot become stable unless the Sunnis are involved.

Sylvia Pankhurst

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Mark Wigley

Any city that only tries to preserve itself is already dead. The great tragedy would be to embalm New Orleans by simply rebuilding it the way it was.

Tom Vilsack

The state and this city are engaged in a global competition for economic opportunity,

Jerome Forneris

The second year, people outside your city recognize your face. 'I can pick Brett Favre out of a lineup.' The third year, people know your issues and character. 'Hey, Brett Favre , heart of a champion.' That third year, people start to describe you as a person as opposed to a football player. But remember, that's three years of staying at a very high level with your play.

Peter Deblieux

The second wave of disaster is when you welcome the people back and the infrastructure of the city is not in place.

Mayor Espy

The solidarity of this administration will hinge upon continued cooperation from all city employees and positive input from the citizens.

Brian Finegan

The studies that were done don't demonstrate that there will be gridlock. The important thing here is that you can't require one project to solve all the ills that have accumulated in the city and the county over years that are unrelated to that project.

Lambis Nikolaou

The speculation concerning my role during the third voting round in the 2012 (host) city elections are completely without foundation.

Damon Hewitt

The simple request was this: the people who are displaced, let them vote from wherever they are located. Don't force them to come all the way back to New Orleans or to some other city in Louisiana to vote.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

Ibrahim Jaafari

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

Rafael Cruz

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Roger Pilon

There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day.

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

Raila Odinga

The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward.

Thomas Sowell

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

Robert Anton Wilson

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Mark Fuhrman

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

David Larsen

As I've said before, I think criminal intent was lacking.

Rafael Goyeneche

Really, a lot of the violence in New Orleans was, I think, a direct result of the failure of the criminal justice system. And I mean every component, including the public, because the public is one of the main reasons why a lot of these prosecutions didn't go forward. ... Because they failed to cooperate.

Rebecca Jeschke

People who get scared in the middle of the night do Internet searches. They look up information about medical conditions, criminal records and all manner of things that they don't necessarily want traced back to them. If people cut down on the things that they search for as a result of this, that's a real shame.

Paul Gianelli

People's thoughts should never be the subject of a criminal prosecution.

Otto Friedrich

During the last months of the German Occupation in 1944, the young man who was to become France's most controversial contemporary philosopher and the woman who was to become its most controversial feminist met the professional criminal who was to become its most controversial playwright.

Asa Hutchinson

These criminals are leaders and mid-level brokers of Internet drug-trafficking rings. They used the World Wide Web as a worldwide drug market.

Kevin Martingayle

I understand that people feel moral outrage over this. And there is likely to be some criminal punishment. But perhaps she's been punished enough.

Jennifer Crider

This is not a vindication. Congressman DeLay still faces very serious criminal charges.

Luis Valdez

That's been the way the season has gone for us. Laurel, Martinez, Ryan Cruz and Erick Cardenas have come up big the whole season.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

Don Heller

Federal law is supreme, and the state proposition, notwithstanding, is meaningless.

Jim Steets

We've provided information to the appropriate state and federal agencies.

Alexander Hamilton

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

Stuart Hoffman

What it does show is that the Federal Reserve has more work to do.

Bill Rogers

We have a very good shield law in South Carolina, but we don't have a federal one.

Ben Bernanke

If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

Mike Sivertson

The way to score with our system is to force turnovers and to not give up big plays. That is one of the reasons that the game went the way it did.

Steve Bietau

What we are hoping for is for somebody to step up and force us to move them up to No. 1 and start winning at No. 1.

Dean Rahas

We tried to pressure them three-quarter court. We tried to pick up the pace and force a lot of turnovers, we were really where we wanted to be tonight.

Matt Murphy

We tried to force them into perimeter shots, but then they hit 10 three's.

Bryant Dillon

We tried to force him into tough shots, which we did. He's like the head of the dragon; if we take him away, then we'll probably get a victory.

Nicole Strasko

We just played our game and played together. We really wanted to push the inside force because we knew we could.

Morgan Tsvangirai

We will not be party to any Caesarian operation by South Africa. We are not going to have short-cuts...and force issues on Zimbabweans.

Aeschylus

The force of necessity is irresistible.

Lynn Mele

We start moving full force because there's a lot to be done.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Kathleen Blanco

This is a sign that the people at the highest level of government are worried about this storm. We must prepare for the worst but hope for the best,

Hiroyuki Hosoda

This is an issue that the government shouldn't interfere in. We want to observe developments.

Kenneth Roth

This is an important symbolic visit. The real test is to see if the government is ready to implement the recommendations and show it's serious about eradicating torture.

Richard McLaren

As a spy, under the laws of war, and his house being designated a military target, we are perfectly under international law in our right to do this,

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Hunter Tylo

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Jose Morales

The Mexicans are going to keep coming, wall or no wall, new laws or old laws.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Rand Paul

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Chris Quest

Even if we marched without the uniforms, even if we marched without the marching 100, you know, it's in us, you can't take our spirit away.

Sam Smith

Tuesday, March 7, Dumpsters will be in place, so they can turn in their garbage.

Barry McGuire

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

Jenny Williams

We were marching to say we want more than day to day survival.

Warren G. Bennis

Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march

Dr. Shannon

We'll keep him medically sedated as long as possible.

David Morales

He tried to obtain the proper medical treatment to treat this, and he was denied,

Marty Bahamonde

Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out.

Bobby Sherman

Gosh... for the past 10 years or so I've been with the EMS (Emergency Medical Services) as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician).

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Yumi Oshima

Part of the problem is her parents live in Taiwan and she only has the Rutgers Medical Insurance. They can't transport her back to Taiwan because she is in such serious condition.

Stephen Dick

All the workers will undergo medical examination before repatriation to their families.

Miles White

This acquisition complements our strategy in medical products.

Donald Trump

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

Bill Russell

They have the right to protest, but are misguided in the views.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Nelson Oduber

This is a preposterous and irresponsible act, ... We are not terrorists. We don't pose a threat to the United States, nor to Alabama.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Jeff Bridges

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Ted Strickland

What that says to me is they know the other two and they don't like what they know.

Jerry Reinsdorf

We win the World Series and Ozzie retires, who says I'm not going to retire?

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Suzanne Vega

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Pope Francis

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Rachel Corrie

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

bell hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

bell hooks

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.