Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Bedford

This multi-million-dollar windfall is only possible because employees have to pay dues to keep their jobs.

M. Wolfe

It's a fact of life our dues structure doesn't factor all of our expenses.

Laila Robins

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Stephen Hess

There's no way he can be in the inner, inner circle. He hasn't paid his dues enough for that. He can sit at the table, he can even say things, but he understands that.

Rick Riordan

Um, Dues ex machina anyone?

E. O. Wilson

No one should be forced to pay union dues to get or keep a job.

Nita Lowey

Stand up, delink paying the UN dues from family planning. Don't let this issue be hijacked by an extremist group in the Republican party, ... Late Edition.

David Quammen

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

Dana Fox

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

Cass Sunstein

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

Jakrapob Penkair

They have no tendency of linking ... themselves and the so-called Muslim extremist groups outside Thailand.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia-based and funded organizations remain a key source for the promotion of ideologies used by terrorists and violent extremists around the world to justify their hate-filled agenda.

Maajid Nawaz

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

Ben Johnson

The opening salvo of Commander-in-Chief is a guilt trip for all those Americans who thought an unelected (and then-unelectable) feminist extremist should refrain from imposing her will upon the nation.

Marjane Satrapi

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Laith Kubba

Muslim extremists will be surrounded then wiped out,

Mohamed ElBaradei

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Antonio Tabucchi

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Luke Bracey

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.

Kristinn Taylor

We are preparing for as many as 20,000 people, just to be on the safe side. People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard.

Lisa Stanford

We are a very close-knit family. Sara was worried about her grandpa, not herself.

Joe Leveroni

We strongly oppose the pending project. Our family has lived on and ranched this property for 85 years. Our property is not for sale.

Matthew Goode

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

Matt Keator

When you throw in his charisma, his size and his family values, you know this kid will do whatever it takes to make it.

Nigel Barker

My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Don Helling

We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.

Allyce Najimy

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

Ted Olson

She wasn't crying, she didn't even sound frightened. She told me her plane was hijacked and that they didn't know she was making a phone call.

Clayton Christensen

'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

David Brooks

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barney Frank

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Ed Royce

The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

Kevin Hall

We still see this as kind of a short-term issue that will work itself out.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Mark Regev

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

Todd Jacobson

We started getting a sense that things were turning around in late 1998.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Richard Jefferson

We're getting there. Late in the game, when we needed shots and we needed stops, they were there.

Lyle Thomas

We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.

George Taylor

What we're seeing right now this late in the year, it's unusual but not unprecedented.

Larry Peruzzi

What we're having lately is a lot of volatility in the market. There's a fixation with the Fed.

Steve Spurrier

When we'd win the SEC we'd get back late and Deano would keep it open for us,

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

E. B. White

I told him I would have too see about paying him, ... He told me not to worry about it.

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Brian O'Donnell

After all the work, now we'll see how it's paying off.

Michael Zenker

One could say the Spaniards are paying a price for U.S. hurricanes.

Brandon Phillips

It was trading at $13, they're paying $18. That's not bad.

Mark Cuban

That shows you how much I had been paying attention.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Michael Martin

You're already paying $3.49, so you should be able to do whatever you want.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Jeb Bush

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

Thomas Jefferson

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Rush Limbaugh

Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.

Rush Limbaugh

Republican voters are fed up with Democrats and Democrat policy.

Ron Silver

I'm a 9/11 Republican.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Bob Doyle

We want to stand on our two feet.

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Rose Johnson

They should be able to stand on their own after that.

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Susan Wheeler

There wasn't anything that would stand in her way of doing something.

Johnnie Hayes

It was still standing and a tree was on it, but it was flooded. Everything we had in there was ruined, our TV and all our furniture.

Charles Dickens

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Charles Dickens

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

Charles Dickens

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Charles Dickens

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Charles Dickens

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

Alanis Morissette

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

Alan Watts

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Alan Watts

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.