Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

Lance Palmer

It helps the bear out to not have to keep his mouth closed the whole time. It's kind of unfair to the bear to keep him muzzled. We want it to be fun. We don't want it to be a sport. That's why the animal activists don't know what they are taking about when they come out here and try and go against what we do.

Jonathan Tisch

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

Cindy Sheehan

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.

Chris Gabrieli

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Michael Phillips

The issue activists march. The electoral activists are talking to other students, they are working at campaign headquarters, and they are making trips to New Hampshire and Iowa and beyond.

Whitney Tilson

The key swing vote is the passive investors who decide whether to piggyback on what the activists are doing. For every dollar of activist money involved in a campaign, there is usually at least $10 of non-activist money involved.

Doug Freeman

The county convention gives the Democratic Party activists an opportunity to come together for a common effort. Politics is not a spectator nor an individual sport but, rather, a team effort to build the kind of communities, states and nation that all can be proud to call American. The Democratic Party of Henderson County is dedicated to citizen involvement in the political process.

Quentin Kidd

Allen has a position within the ideological spectrum of the Republican Party that serves him well in a primary. He's really appealing to the party activists within the Party. And that's good for candidates who are running in primaries.

Stephen Borelli

He really was a major contributor to the American sports scene and to the changing times in sports history -- Mel Allen left his mark,

Jackie Miller

Historically, and unfortunately, and this doesn't reflect on Allen County's situation, law enforcement often is slow to come around to being willing to involve the emergency management coordinator, perhaps due to a reluctance to sharing the responsibility,

Bob Hill

It could be fatigue. We all know it's been a long year. Ray Allen still amazes me. He's playing really hard. He competed his heart out, he just couldn't get the ball in the basket.

Mike Mills

I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and Milos Forman and all these people.

Jim Donofrio

He is a high school version of Allen Iverson. Great, great speed. It will be a complete 180 from C.B. West.

Mike Holmgren

Patience. I thanked Paul for being patient with me in a rather volatile business, to allow your coaches to build something and to believe in them. You don't always see it as much as you should in this business, and he has been great for me. With the patience Mr. Allen has shown me, he gave me a chance to stand on the podium.

Maurice Cheeks

If you're missing a player like Allen you have to overcompensate. You're not going to replace a guy who scores 33-34 points a game, but you can replace him in other areas when you get production from everyone.

Todd Boyd

In order to really move a shoe, you need to get to the finals on a regular basis, or you need to be a pop culture icon, like Allen Iverson.

Mo Cheeks

I just thought that everyone had to pick up every phase of our game because Allen wasn't playing. We did that on the offensive end and the defensive end. We shared the ball and we did a lot of good things team wise.

Raquel Welch

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

John Day

His work engages viewers with the artist's rare gifts of sensitivity to the human condition and an appealing sense of humor.

Alyn McCauley

I think the lockout hurt a lot, but I think if we get back and give everyone an appealing product, where rules are called, and let the game's talented players play and show off their skills - I think we'll attract more fans than maybe we did before the lockout,

Bob Harlan

I think the fact they were scheduling without knowing if Brett Favre is going to be back, and they still gave us three national games, shows you the Green Bay Packers are still an appealing draw. The ratings were good last year even when we weren't playing well. I think it speaks well for us (considering) where we are. I think it's still a popular franchise and we still get ratings.

Philip Schiller

We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch.

Don Payne

I think that's what makes Florida appealing to him. That that's what they're looking for, and that's what I think he is - a primary back.

Wendy Liebman

If you've got a brand like this, any brand in fact, you need to stay true to your roots if you want to maintain your distinctiveness, it's very easy to start to lose that edge by appealing to a very broad audience,

Doug Armstrong

I just think the reality of not ending his career in Dallas, putting on a different jersey, wasn't appealing to him.

J. J. Johnson

It helps to have something immediately accessible, ... Getting documentation immediately available online is very appealing to a lot of people.

Thomas Mann

I would say Joe Lieberman (would be perceived as being the most pro-business), ... is the least likely of the major candidates to win the nomination.

Brenda Wright

Just limiting contributions leaves untouched one of the core problems, which is the pressure that candidates face when they can never stop fund raising.

Stu Jackson

I think it had come to a point where there were several viable candidates and it was just time to do it,

Ron Walters

There are so many candidates in the race. Whoever can get a critical mass of voters will win the race.

Summer Luciano

Having the music and the candidates out here forms a sense of community. We want people to be excited and feel empowered to go out in force and vote.

Kevin Sheekey

It certainly lays a path for future candidates to communicate with voters on something other than race- or religion-based formulas.

Ismail Haniya

It is a list for change and reform, composed of candidates from a new generation, our historic leaders as well as women and prisoners.

Mike Bohn

There are numerous candidates out there. The point I was trying to make was, we will get a home run. We'll find him and we'll make it work.

Valinda Bolton

When they look at how the candidates stand on their own merits, then I think they'll see that I'm the stronger one.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Jim Brown

Kids today don't have any idea about these tools, or what they were used for. It a good history lesson for them.

Buck Showalter

Knuckleball guys are going to have their ups and downs. This was a down for R.A., who's had some good ones for us. We'll sit down and talk about it.

Bouthaina Shaaban

What do you do if the other party won't talk?

Richard Posner

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!

Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

Richard Whately

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Richelle Mead

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Richelle Mead

Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

Ronaldinho

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Roger Kahn

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Mila Kunis

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Robert Payne

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Rudy Giuliani

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Lauren Bacall

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

John Kasich

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

Lewis Black

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Jonah Goldberg

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

Jon Stewart

The Rapture: The ultimate Republican back-up plan.

James Madison

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

Robert Gilmore

It all starts with who we got running the country,

Andy Reid

He can run, ... This doesn't stop him from running the football.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Toney Baker

I was just running and I lowered my shoulder. That's it.

Carl Jung

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

Brett Keisel

He had running room. If I hadn't got to him there, he could have taken off.

Liz Smith

He is going to start running my column, or a version of it, in September.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Rumi

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.