Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Martin

I would work for the abolition of animals. If Prof Aziz legitimately thinks otherwise then that's a defensible position because it was the law in this country to do it, it is the law in other countries to do it.

George William Norris

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Stanley Hauerwas

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

Wynton Marsalis

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.

Charlie Stenholm

The chief executive officer of the multi-million dollar Humane Society of the United States once stated that his personal goal was the abolition of all animal agriculture. I'm happy to say, he's lost a very important battle today, and animal agriculture won.

Tadatoshi Akiba

This Aug. 6 ... is a time of inheritance, of awakening, and of commitment, in which we inherit the commitment of the bomb victims to the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of genuine world peace,

Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

Pavel Krasheninnikov

Public opinion influences the matter a great deal. From the political viewpoint, nobody ventures to raise issues related to the abolition of the death penalty while terrorist attacks still happen.

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry's attacks today were baseless. He said American troops did not secure the explosives, when the explosives were already missing.

Douglas Hattaway

He can't help himself but make personal attacks and misleading statements to distort the real differences on the issues.

Craig Teagle

He's a shooter. They set the screens. Every kid that plays basketball can learn from him. He keeps his dribble alive. If he doesn't have anything he backs away and attacks again. ... The kid is just a great player.

David Travis

We studied the change in temperature range that occurred during the three-day period immediately following the 9/11 terror attacks when airplanes were grounded and compared those to the three-day period immediately before and afterwards.

Roger Mueller

I think we have some momentum and can give Watauga some trouble at home, ... Well need to shut them down and maximize our attacks to have a chance to take them. If we play with intelligence and heart, it can happen.

Madeline Albright

It is impossible for us to negotiate while he builds up his forces, attacks civilians and torches villages in Kosovo,

Joost Hiltermann

He has angered insurgents who don't believe in his methods or in attacks on holy sites. But that won't stop him.

Cecile Richards

Planned Parenthood will fight these attacks in courts, in the state houses, at the ballot boxes to ensure that women with their doctors and families continue to be able to make personal health care decisions without government interference.

Farrah Fawcett

Redmond attacks me when I try to prevent him from leaving or when he threatens to jump off the balcony. He's always threatening to leap.

E. O. Wilson

Kids will get home and nag their parents to death about getting a smoke detector,

Robert Kramer

Gross abusers of e-mail risk exposure to public ridicule as well as the economic death penalty.

George Sewell

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Thomas Malory

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

Myles Munroe

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Lauren Bacall

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

Neal Katyal

Here, the president seeks not merely to detain temporarily but to dispense life imprisonment and death through a judicial system of his own design.

Matt Frewer

I think the idea is when you're on your death bed to say you did a lot of different, interesting things, not just that you have a more expensive lining in your coffin.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Mark Heiderscheid

John Day does a great job in the first half to keep us in it. There's got to be six or seven opportunities they get and he comes up big on saves.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.

Sam Ginzburg

Another wild day in the market place. There's defiantly a confluence of influences right now.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Rita Ora

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Tom Lewis

MLK really left his mark even today and influences us in our community.

Elizabeth McCracken

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

Bruce Jackson

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Gregg Andrews

We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Judy Breselor

I don't find it acceptable. It's really got to go before the Planning Board. I had some issues with it and have to go see how it fits.

Robert Redford

If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Bobby Bowden

Joe's showing the world he can get it done, when nobody thought he could. That reminded me of the Penn State teams we used to see.

Carmelo Anthony

I take this as motivation. It's nothing to be upset about. I can't take away and nobody else can take away what I've done this season.

Jim McKay

It boggles my mind, ... Nobody thought it would get that high.

George Jennings

It is a little unsettling to be the first wave. It's going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas.

John Hoffman

There is nobody else. We can't operate without a president.

Rena McCullough

We're pretty much the redheaded stepchild around here. Nobody respects us." ()

H. Hart

We're on the square, and a lot of the times, there is nobody there. People say it was just like reading to the Lord.

Ron Fussell

When he's on, there's nobody who can touch him.

John Salmon

When he's in a groove, he's in a groove. Can't nobody stop him, can't nobody stop him.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Kerry Sutton

We've been told there is a video of the identification process, and in my opinion we should have it by now.

Umberto Eco

Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

William James

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

Tucker Max

Opinions are projections.

Winston Churchill

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Pete Carroll

I'm not worried about it. People have opinions and can think anything they want,

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Mark Tate

I think it's a skill to be able to take a penalty kick. There's a lot of pressure to step up there and take that shot.

Richard Matvichuk

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Mark Jones

It was a stone-wall penalty and it could have been very costly.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Glen Hanlon

The shots were 8-1 at one point and 13-3 and then we had a penalty and we don't kill it. I think that was the story of the game.

Jozef Stumpel

Right now, I don't understand what is a penalty shot.

Clay Peterson

If we wouldn't have had the time penalty or we wouldn't have had the wreck, we would have won that division.

Don Waddell

I always say the players pick this team, not us. You can't have a team of 12 first-line NHL players. You need role players, checkers, penalty killers. You can't just take the 12 most skilled forwards.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Sarah Palin

I can see November from my house.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Larry Harris

If you can raise up and shoot from 15 to 18 feet, you can play in this league,

David Scott

It's really a pretty simple model. Raise the pay.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Greg Hawkins

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes a village to put on a triathlon.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

Rick Ford

A lot of it is related to safety.

Carl Edwards

It's a little different. There was a time not too long ago when I just wished I had something to do related to racing. Now there's so much to do.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Damian Marley

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Amiri Baraka

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

Sarah Palin

Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.

Leon Panetta

If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.

Malala Yousafzai

Education is the power terrorists fear most.

Mahatma Gandhi

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.

D. J. MacHale

I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.

Cindy Sheehan

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.

Sally Quinn

How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

Alexander Torshin

That could have prevented the terrorist attack. But they weren't fulfilled.

Jay Wright

I thought it was a terrorist attack, ... I had no idea what was going on.