Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Meyer

A lot of things, I think, would have to go wrong in order for this widespread civil unrest to become a reality,

Renee Asher

They have done what they set out to do ... to engage the wider community in their fight for civil rights.

Viktor Yushchenko

This decision puts Ukraine on the verge of civil conflict.

Clay Shaw

For every security provision we put in place, there's a civil right done away with, ... There's a limit to how much security people want. Many people feel violated after they've been through check-in at the airport.

Andrew Koppelman

For federal purposes, civil unions are not marriages.

Anthony Romero

For a country that prides itself on due process and civil liberties, it's just indefensible.

James G. Stavridis

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

Yoram Peri

There was never a situation where the formal political map was in such disharmony from Israeli civil society.

Nicholas Carbone

There might be a civil rights violation. But that's in the preliminary stage of research.

Rajeev Ram

The crowd has been great, ... especially our (semifinal) match since it was on Stadium Court and at night. A lot of people stuck around from the (first night match), and since it was a tight match, the crowd helped us out a lot.

John Fote

Eddie does things that I've never had a kid on the court be able to do. When I say he's unbelievable it's things I haven't seen before. When we played last week, he made two 'and-ones' that I didn't think would get to the rim but he's so strong.

Maggie Gallagher

The set of ideas that lead a culture, a religion, a court to endorse same-sex marriage are simply not sustainable over the long haul.

Andrew Smith

Nothing unexpected happened today. After three years of working in the Russian court system, expectations were low.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Nothing the Supreme Court did last year was as important as the announcement that Sandra Day O'Conner was stepping down.

Gene Stilp

It's never been before the court before, and will be before the court now.

Bill Thomas

That is illegal, unconstitutional and reprehensible. It will be the subject of court action.

Mick Keelty

It's important that we give these people a fair opportunity to prepare their defense before the court rather than run their trial in the media.

Michael Greve

It's been the longest-sitting nine-member court in history. They've all played the same cards, and nothing is gained.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Donald Rumsfeld

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Daniel Kahneman

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

Daniel Day-Lewis

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

Daniel Dennett

We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

Dan Black

If you're having a difficult time making the best decision then consider fasting. Fasting is simply taking something you regularly do and replacing it with praying and seeking God. For example instead of eating a meal you can take that time to seek God and allow Him to speak to you about the decision.

David Frum

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

David Attenborough

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

David Stern

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Andrew Cuomo

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

Ambrose Bierce

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

Anna Quindlen

More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Russ McKenzie

Brandon is the picture of hard work and perseverance. Most kids would have quit in his first two years, with the beatings he took in the room. But he didn't.

Dick Colliver

We've had to reevaluate our position. It's having a hard time in the market.

Brooke Julicher

We've had a lot of injuries. A lot of our starters and key players have been out. It's been a lot of camaraderie and hard work that has kept us with a winning record so far.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

We'll have to look at the calendar. It's always very hard to predict what's going to happen; let's go step by step.

Patrick Tyler

Everyone was evacuated so it's hard to find out what's happening.

Kevin Beck

Everyone works as hard as they can. It's not something I have to stay on them about.

The Beatles

Everyone worked very hard on this. I'm very comfortable with everything.

Carlos Tevez

Everyone worked very hard for this. I'm very excited. This first title is very important to me.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Jim Pattison

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.

Markwayne Mullin

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

Mark Twain

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

Peter Ustinov

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius

To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Brett Lee

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

Thomas Huxley

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

Thomas Sowell

There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

Robert Greene

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

Reed Hundt

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

Robert Henri

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

Robert Henri

Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.

Suzy Kassem

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

Victor Hugo

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Renzo Rosso

In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,