Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it...

C. L. R. James

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

John Reid

I want to make sure if our armed forces are going to play a greater role in the world than previously that we give them the welfare, the numbers and the equipment that they need.

Charles Studd

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Carl von Clausewitz

Battles decide everything.

Ben Harper

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Mike Boles

Friday is going to be a battle but we're going to show up.

Tim Williams

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

Brad Berenson

If Bush is willing to go to the mat for somebody, the odds are good that, at the end of the day, no matter how bloody the battle has been, he can get that person confirmed.

Ed Sprague

He's really pitched very well. His first outing was dominating. He didn't get a decision, but he pitched about as well as you can pitch. The second outing, he didn't have his best stuff, but he was able to battle through it, and that's a maturity level we didn't see from him early in the season last year.

Bible Bible

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Horace

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Douglas Brinkley

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

George Clooney

(M)ore important than that, (McCarthy) was wrong every time he denied people their civil liberties.

Lorde

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

Alan Gottlieb

Natural disasters may destroy great cities, but they do not destroy civil rights.

Martin Meredith

Ghana embarked on independence as one of the richest tropical countries in the world, with an efficient civil service, an impartial judiciary and a prosperous middle class.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Liu Jian

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

Christopher Painter

Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

Masiela Lusha

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Tim King

I don't think it's a failure we didn't get to meet him, ... We serve a God who is greater than all of us, and the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than all of the 191 countries in the U.N. combined.

Gordon Brown

For this to happen, developed countries must be prepared to support, with public investment, through grants or loans, developing countries in their efforts.

Henry Sokolski

If the idea is to promote a sense of security at the same time that the development of large reactors to a long list of countries is promoted, then it's very misguided. They're trying to sell this as a nonproliferation initiative, but we shouldn't be so quick to cede that point.

James Matthew

For the first time, in countries like Canada, France, Korea, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, year-end bonuses for this group are the norm and not the exception.

Roger Brathwaite

The ICC have contacted all of their member countries to find out if any of them have an interest in hosting ICC events from 2007 to 2015.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Jimmy Williams

We got started yesterday with a power cleaner. You can see we blasted out three previous coats.

Tim Taylor

You get a power play and you think, 'We get one here, the door's shut. But the way things are going for us, we will take the two points.

Jeff Bower

There's not going to be power here for another week or so. We've got to get them out of here.

Ed Begley, Jr.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Al Gore

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

Jane Asher

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Allan Bloom

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

Andy Cohen

If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

Aga Khan IV

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our 20th Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors; our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.