Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

Thomas Jones

We've seen a greater change in consumer behavior with this tax increase than we expected.

Doug Williams

There are multiple motivations for an arsonist's behavior,

Paul Ellis

When I discuss the idea of SRI with clients, many will say, well, yes, I'm very interested in the environment or in scrutinizing corporate behavior more closely.

John Nash

We will not tolerate this type of behavior from any player. We will continue to demand a higher level of professionalism and personal responsibility from all of our players or we will continue to take appropriate action.

William Gaillard

Unfortunately, these are things that happen during a tourist season. We want to underline the fact that with fan behavior, we have had no problems.

William Gaillard

Unfortunately, these are things that happen during a tourist season, ... We want to underline the fact that with fan behavior, we have had no problems.

Scott Westerfeld

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

Teresa Hostetler

The bottom line is, for each count of sexual battery, and I believe he plead guilty to two, carries a maximum of five years per count. This guy could have spent ten years in jail.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Cameron C. Powell

People believe so much in themselves that there willing to eliminate the competition that makes them lose. What they don't realize is thinking like that is why the opponent has the advantage.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Jim Tressel

Of course, we believe the greatest rivalry is Ohio State-Michigan. It's played each year at the end of the regular season, many times impacting the Big Ten championship, and it's played in front of more than 106,000 fans every year.

Arthur Koestler

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Carson McCullers

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

Charles Kennedy

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Bill Hybels

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

Twyla Tharp

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Elbert Hubbard

A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

Yossi Beilin

Today, when we're approaching the moment of truth, when courageous people have to make courageous decisions, ... it is a must that they will talk to each other and see whether it is possible to get to the permanent solutions and to touch all the delicate issues.

Frank Tyger

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Stan Gehrt

Often, they expose it, then poop on it just to let you know they found it and they're not going to get caught.

Doug Snyder

That's why we played this tournament: to learn. I said going in that we could come out of this tournament 0-2, but we got a split and we can learn from some of the things Linden exposed in our game tonight.

Karen Aroesty

You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what they really are, which is ridiculous.

Eduardo Sanchez

Many of these kids were not exposed to floodwater,

Shigeru Omi

many people have been exposed or potentially exposed.

Bobby Bayliss

We had good matches, got exposed to a lot of good tennis, got to practice with some guys from other teams as well.

David Hawkins

He's a great teacher. He's doing a great job preparing us for college. He's exposed us to different types of tests (including those in which students identify specimens from microscopes).

Nikki Sixx

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

Scott Harris

The number means nothing if you don't know what the exposure is. If you're not exposed to something, it can't hurt you.

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Craig Chilton

The summertime and late spring are the greatest times of production for this industry because dealers sell more of these vehicles at this time of year, ... How to Get Paid $30,000 a Year to Travel: Without Selling Anything.

Sarah Vandish

I've met some of the greatest people through swimming.

Jeremy Yablonski

Things weren't working out the greatest in Milwaukee and Nashville.

Greg Oden

This is one of my greatest moments. I'm very happy to win this award, and I'm very grateful.

Nick Miller

Dr. Who is my greatest passion in life.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Arthur Marx

People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

Jana Kramer

L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Baruch Spinoza

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Jamie Bell

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

Janet Reno

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

Anton Chekhov

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

Brendan Gleeson

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Debra Wilson

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

Rob Smith

We think it's an appropriate step to take to protect the integrity of our products and the safety of our patients here in the U.S. and Canada.

Orson Scott Card

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Tanith Lee

No one is ever ordinary.

Marilynne Robinson

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Nick Cave

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

Iyanla Vanzant

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Ralph Goodale

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Peter Ward

He is the new broom, and he can sweep clean.

Johan Botha

The tests went all right, but I was very disappointed in the results.

Brigham Young

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

Stephen Jay Gould

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth.

Daniel Tosh

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Timothy Leary

The universe is an intelligence test.

Ratan Tata

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.