Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Enrique Garcia

That was a sad case. These cases are really made by people coming forward with information.

Rick Santorum

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

Matthew Quick

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

Allan Urlis

Typically, when there's damage to the weatherhead and the meter box, the city inspector would need to look at it before we could reconnect. But in this circumstance, where there are so many cases like that, the city inspection is not required before we restore service.

Stacey Gabriel

Today the prices have dropped in many cases to a fraction of a penny per genotype, and we can do millions a day. This is the difference between not being able to do the studies, and getting them done rapidly and well.

James Roth

Time is of the essence in these cases in gathering and sharing information, and anything that slows that down is distinctly unhelpful.

Timothy Noah

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Wesley Clark

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

John C. Calhoun

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

Bill Vaughan

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

Stephen Ambrose

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Kevin McCarthy

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

Pat Oliphant

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

George Casey

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

Roy Moore

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Wayne Jackson

That win was very sweet to us. A lot of people had left us for dead.

Josh Childress

That zone and press slowed our tempo down. It left us kind of standing around with the ball.

Sean Maher

Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'

Maximilian Schell

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Chris Ross

We had our chances. We left 13 runners on base.

Eric Taylor

Timber left down, particularly snapped trees, rapidly degrades in quality and loses considerable value in the first 60 to 90 days,

Craig Thompson

We have a lot of people with a lot of work left to do.

John Lucas

We've got plenty of work left to do.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Thierry Henry

I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Imelda May

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Iggy Azalea

I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

Idina Menzel

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

Ian Mckellen

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Irwin Thomas

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

Indiana Evans

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

William Wise

It is inappropriate and without precedent to second-guess a pipeline's day-to-day operations,

Claude Debussy

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

Nancy Collins

Then, we have to have one or two (patients) before we get a Medicaid visit to get our Medicaid license, ... Everything is establishing a precedent as we go.

Frank Blake

We voted for you to vote on these things. This will set a precedent because anything that's done once can be done again.

Dror Etkes

This is a precedent, but unless there is a continuation it will remain a precedent without any context.

Bruce Fuller

The way to stop something like this is by setting the precedent of prosecution.

Don Cox

There's no precedent for doing what they did.

John Roberts

It is settled as a precedent of the court,

James Madison

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

Carrie Coon

I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.

Carrie Underwood

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Carl Rogers

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Carl Sagan

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

Carl Sagan

There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

Arpad Busson

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

Anton Seidl

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Anthony Swofford

I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

Arlen Specter

It does not signify disagreement with Roe v. Wade,

Ken Salazar

I don't think he would vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade,

Mike Church

Roe is their guy. Without him, they struggle.

Nan Aron

I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Richard Collier

Sam is not going to overturn Roe v. Wade.