Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

Thomas Jones

We've seen a greater change in consumer behavior with this tax increase than we expected.

Doug Williams

There are multiple motivations for an arsonist's behavior,

Baltasar Gracian

Always act as if you were seen.

Paul Ellis

When I discuss the idea of SRI with clients, many will say, well, yes, I'm very interested in the environment or in scrutinizing corporate behavior more closely.

William James

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is ''All striving is vain,'' will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

Mark Durkan

There should be no space or excuse for continued criminal behavior of any kind.

Steven Pinker

There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition systems of the brain - just because we're coming to understand more about the temptation systems.

Peter Dunne

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

Michael Rosenberg

We want to give the lowest dose to get the job done, ... I think it's part of the continued evolution of the pill.

Mike Yancosky

T.J. wasn't being a player and he wasn't focused on some things, but it turned him around. He had a great section tournament, and he continued it here.

Dwyane Wade

You all (the media) might have made him mad. I think you all lit a fire under him. He's been playing well the last couple of games. He continued to do it today.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

Jim Roberts

These kids didn't take shortcuts. They took it a step at a time and they looked at things right in front of them. We never say good-bye to our seniors. Basically, we say, 'until next time.' Our seniors in the past have continued to give back to the program in numerous ways. I don't see this group being any different.

Mark Geragos

And that continued through the time that you worked?

Tom Daschle

All we are saying is that if we're going to have continued trade, let's at least ensure that the level of safety is equal on the other side of the border,

Jason Schenker

Strong continued gross domestic product growth and solid employment gains should fuel further home sales and may mitigate some of the slowing engendered by higher interest rates.

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.

Paul Gianelli

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

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.

John Deane

Criminals use cars, it's as simple as that.

Tom Lantos

Israel is not facing just the terrorists Hamas and Hezbollah. Those criminal groups are merely proxies for the real masters of terror, Syria and Iran.

Jerry Owens

Isn't it criminal to give up your kids?

Daniel Craig

The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

Rush Holt

We have an oversight responsibility regardless of what criminal investigations may or may not be under way.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

P. Herbert

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

Jason Ritter

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

Paul Davis

To be honest, I don't really think so. Everyone is tired this time of year. We can't make the excuse of being tired.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Rejean Beauchemin

I don?t think I fell asleep. You can?t use that as an excuse when you don?t get a lot of action. There?s going to be periods like that all the time. I hold myself accountable. I should have been a lot better.

Ned Collins

Maybe we were a little overbought after yesterday. That scared some people and they started taking profits ...With stocks trading at this level, people are looking for any excuse to worry.

Hebbel

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses

Don MacAdam

Whoever it was, there's no excuse for that behavior. I'm sure it's frustration. But there's still no excuse.

Alan Vega

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

Jane Siberry

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Diane Ackerman

A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

Diane Sawyer

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

Denis Diderot

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Deepak Chopra

Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

Dirk Benedict

The space genre is timeless.

Ace Frehley

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

Ace Frehley

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.