Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Bird

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Robert Moses

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Warren Buffett

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

Warren Buffett

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

William Wallace

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

William Hague

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

Henry A. Kissinger

A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.

Paul Robeson

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Martti Ahtisaari

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Gregg Harris

He is the only mayor that ever sent pink slips to cops.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Suzanne Pleshette

I work for wardrobe. Whenever I need clothes, I take a job. If I get maybe like six changes, then I'll be a grandmother, I don't care.

J. Horton

It causes severe illness and high mortality rates.

O. Singh

He is subject to no one else s rule, and the Lord, the King, causes everyone to fall at his feet.

Juan Pierre

This was only the first game, but this game it was evident that once you get guys on base, it causes havoc. It's not just me, it's anybody. That's my intent to start off the game, not necessarily with a triple, but to have a good at-bat and let the offense take it from there.

Clark Williams

Have we created a new PCB problem for ourselves? ... We have dug this hole for ourselves. It's like DDT; we find out it harms birds, and we pull it off the market. With PCBs, we find it causes health problems, and we pull it off the market. We have to learn the lesson.

Sathya Baba

God plays pranks and directs,He causes tears and quenches tears,He cures madness and inflicts madness.

Walter Cunningham

I think it's important, because we have so many children, who are, more or less like latch-key children, or children who are on their own. They need a plan. This gives them a plan, rather than keeping all this to themselves, which festers and causes more problems internally. Now they know who to go to for help.

Ben Jonson

Lady, it is to be presumed, / Though art's hid causes are not found, / All is not sweet, all is not sound.

Azzam Tamimi

What may be seen as a glorification of terrorism by one person might be seen as an explanation of the causes of terrorism by another person.

John Buford

The people give and sell the men something to eat, but I can't stand that way of subsisting; it causes dreadful straggling.