Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debra Marcus

That sounds to me like an activist judge.

Tom DeLay

It's an activist judge. He's trying to defend his position that's indefensible,

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Matt Daniels

The constitutional problem created by almost a decade of activist lawsuits to destroy marriage demands a constitutional fix. AFM created the Marriage Protection Amendment and our text has been introduced with bi-partisan sponsorship in two successive sessions of Congress in order to protect the common sense view of marriage shared by most Americans of every race, color and creed.

Paul Di Filippo

For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos.

Bill Crawford

There's a whole group of south Scottsdale activists who were disenfranchised. If you acknowledge those people it means so much to them.

Janice Crouse

It's a sad day for American when a small group of very determined activists are dominating the awards ceremony.

Bill Vandenberg

It was astounding. It wasn't the professional activist class; it was grass-roots people who heard about it on TV and radio.

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Jeff Banks

It almost got away from us. But we didn't give up just because we were behind. That's the best part.

Alex Rodriguez

It almost feels like we're in their shoes.

Mark Sweeney

He can throw a good one. He almost took my head off today. I didn't know where it was going. But in a game? He'd get killed. It's one thing to play catch. It's another thing to pitch.

Jerry Sloan

Greg didn't burn any bridges, ... Greg and I fought almost every day (but) I apologized to Greg more than anyone I've ever coached.

Author unknown

Hallmark Card: "I'm so miserable without you, it's almost like you're still here.

Greg Behrendt

I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.

Steve Nash

In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.

Leonard Sand

I don't believe First Amendment rights are being infringed,

Dick Thornburgh

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Jim Cooper

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

William Kelly

In contrast to the prescribed right to statewide referendum process, there is no affirmative right under the Maine Constitution which enables citizens to enact local ordinances by petition. This conclusion is in accordance with Maine law.... In conclusion, the city drafted the charter to provide for a citizen's initiative process and the city can amend the charter to limit that process. The proposed amendment is in accordance with state and federal constitutions, as well as state statute.

John McCain

I know that money corrupts. I would rather have a clean government than one where ""First Amendment rights are being respected,"" that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.

Sen. Baker

The intent had been to provide them with $1 million each. There was not as much in (the budget) as initially thought. We're going to be able to correct it with a floor amendment tomorrow.

Joe Curtin

The military must be very careful in not violating an individual's First Amendment rights,

Jerry Yang

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

Greg Allen

The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.

Marcus Giles

Just looks like he's wearing the wrong color blue.

Serena Kim

Italians at the end of the day are Europeans. This Cuban guy is a person of color and a political refugee.

Andy Klatt

He is the only quarterback I have ever seen that actually looks for the other color helmet, and then tries to hit it. He hunts for tacklers, and wants to punish them for trying to tackle him.

David Bryant

Here we are in 2005, and a lot of the stuff is still going on today. People are still judging each other on how much money they have or their race, ... It's not about the color of skin but about people respecting one another for just being people.

Holger Schmieding

Whatever the color of Germany's new government will ultimately be, the pace of structural reforms is likely to be slow.

Antoni Gaudi

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Kelsea Ballerini

For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!

Marty Turco

I actually like the red. I don't mind the colors at all.

Duane Davis

I didn't like (the helmets), ... My primary reason being the school colors are green and gold.

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Keith Ashdown

The only thing I think can happen is that (Congress enacts) a very large, across-the-board cut, ... and nobody is talking about that. Every major program has an 800-pound gorilla protecting it.

Jerry Reed

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

Greg Valliere

I think sometimes after we have this type of party, there is a hangover -- and this comes in '05, ... The new Congress in '05 will make efforts to restrain growth. They may not rescind the tax cuts, but there will be spending restraint. But between now and then, it's just a party.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I don't know what goes on on ships, ... I can tell you exactly what goes on on the streets of New York City. You are safe. People are nice. It is exciting. It is easy to get around. We have rooms reserved for every member of Congress and for every delegate.

Dick Durbin

I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,

Laura Castro

I'm hoping something will happen soon in Congress.

Lennart Johansson

I'll decide tomorrow after the Uefa Congress whether I will speak or not.

Bob Loevy

If the other senator from your state is in your party, you don't have to feel great pressure to speak out on every issue. They need to get their message out so that the other congressman from the other party doesn't establish his point of view.

James Klein

I fully expect that Congress will iron out the differences. With Social Security reform a bust, pension reform is a must.

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run.

David Keene

I think the president has created political trouble for himself. She may turn out to be a great judge ... but my own reaction to it is that it is not my fight, and I think that's the way that most conservatives feel about it.

Jim Rash

I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.

Debbie Ford

What I know for sure is that we are all created with this phenomenal force inside of us that can have us withstand - that God never gives us more than we can handle.

Doug TenNapel

When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.

Billy Donovan

I thought there were times (against South Carolina) when guys created off the dribble and didn't find him. I thought he should have gotten up 10 or 11 shots. There was three or four or five times when our guys missed him. Our team has got to do a better job of recognizing when he's open and getting him the basketball.

Jack Sammons

I think we've had a talent vacuum in the administration that has created many of these financial problems. I think the Mayor is putting together a better team that can deal with it.

Patrick Fields

We may have just retired (13) people or created (13) new job openings in Missouri.

Chelsea Clinton

How we use these surpluses in this moment of prosperity will determine America's future for decades to come. Nothing will more surely determine it than making the right choices,

Arlen Specter

And I think he may have a little different view about television, something that I have advocated for more than a decade in the court, ... He's a new generation.

Silvan Shalom

The Egyptian president is expected to arrive. We think he will probably come at the time of the marking of the decade since Rabin's murder. But we want the visit to have also bilateral implications,

Elyssa Rosen

It's been a decade now that they have been illegally polluting into the Humboldt River.

Paul Williams

The next decade is just going to be explosive. We need to know where we are going to be five, 10, 15 years from now.

Mike Hallett

It's an exciting time. It's been a decade since Thomas More has been in a conference. It's a great conference, very competitive. I think it's a great fit. We're excited about the opportunity to face some of the top teams in the country.

John McMillin

They've had their franchise, particularly domestically, eroded in the last decade by the value sector. I think now they're going on the offensive. While this will hurt earnings, I think it's the right thing to do.

Noah Feldman

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

Brian Shema

They were found regularly a decade ago, but they haven't been found here for four years. It's kind of a shame.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Daniel Doctoroff

We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.

Octavia Butler

I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out, to see how they would really work if they were real. I have to be able to do that.

Brian Moss

We're so far behind, in terms of what the market demands today, that this is something that needed to be done.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Doug Pritchard

The fact that there are no demands made or timelines set is also hopeful.

Zach Woods

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

Lee Mendelson

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow; we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

James Jones

I think that when you play a team a second time, and the first time you play them you destroy them, your psyche isn't in the right place. We all knew that this game wouldn't be easy, and that we would have to play harder than we did in the first game, but we didn't do that.

Karl Turner

I will never get over this. This has just about destroyed me.

Fats Domino

Hurricane Katrina led a path of destruction through my home. However, she would not destroy my faith in God and my love of music and my fans.

Richard Boucher

He says it doesn't matter if people are socialist -- we're going to fight together with them to destroy everything that we can.

Lowell Feld

If you could repair it faster than they could destroy it, you'd win the battle. But you can't.

Ian Roberts

I remember just feeling the weight and responsibility and that moment in my life was just like 'My god Ian, this is going to destroy you',

Sean Penn

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Randy McMichael

Stick with somebody. It's not college. You can't keep having the quarterback shuffle, because that's only going to destroy the offensive chemistry.

Mario Batali

I just was introduced to the writings of Lucius Beebe, and I'm going to read him.

Rusty Hardin

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

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.

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Samuel Johnson

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

Samuel Johnson

The triumph of hope over experience.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Richard Gere

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Rich Lowry

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Roald Amundsen

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

Roald Amundsen

Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

Richard Rodriguez

The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.

Richard Rohr

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order, no nonsense. So that's where their psyche is at. Probably it's something that they've got to go through. Not that there isn't a need for order in the world, but the mystical level seems to be the mature level of religion, and there the question is not order but union - divine union. And so, without some integration of the feminine, usually you never get to the mystical level.

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Ray Stallone

Well, you have one problem with your rant. We didn't do it.

Mary Matalin

He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy.

David Tom

I don't have any problem with it whatsoever, and I wish her well.

Keith Winkowski

I don't get the problem here at all. We're not making a profit.

Shane Matthews

He'll probably throw it at me first, ... But I don't have a problem with that. I kind of like it.

Ron McBride

He never had a problem doing his running. He usually set the pace.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Mario Batali

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Gloria Steinem

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

Douglas Coupland

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Virginia Woolf

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Viola Spolin

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

William Westmoreland

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.