Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Grey

The American public has accepted legalized gambling as a means to spend their money for entertainment. America is on a gambling binge. The more available and accessible it becomes, the more gambling is acceptable to people.

Bela Anda

That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking to the future together and not into the past.

Stephen King

We know that they obtained these bodies in a fraudulent way and off the scale of acceptable practice.

Thomas Carroll

We know that that's not acceptable down here. A three-loss season, hey, that's great for some teams. But guys do come back here and they're like, 'Nah, that didn't cut it last year, man.' They don't expect us to lose three games. I really think guys from other schools don't expect us to lose three games. It's really unheard of down here, especially in the last four or five years. We're looking forward to stopping that trend.

Margaret DiNinno

We have tried every alternative-dispute resolution, including fact-finding. We're trying to find an acceptable resolution because it's obvious we're at an impasse.

Richard Carlson

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Paul Auster

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

John Lampe

We have been working closely with the state attorneys general on this issue for more than a year now, and believe that these efforts have allowed us to reach an acceptable agreement that permits us to focus our energies and our resources on rebuilding our company and the Firestone brand,

Ann Cooper

U.S. forces continue these alarming detentions of working journalists without any acceptable explanation, or anything resembling due process.

Ice Cube

It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.

Virginia Postrel

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

Carl Sagan

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

Bethenny Frankel

I didn't binge when I was pregnant.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Peter L. Bergen

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

James Comey

We in the FBI have created a malware repository and analysis tool known as the Binary Analysis Characterization and Storage System, or BACSS, which provides near real-time investigative information. BACSS helps us link malware in different jurisdictions and paint a picture of cyber threats worldwide.

John Lister

It didn't take 2,000 years to develop the process of making bread for us to bin it without consequences.

George H. W. Bush

I thought it was going to help. I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn't want Bush to be the President, something must be right with Bush.

Yolanda Adams

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

Olivia Newton-John

The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.

Jennifer Garraway

To look around and realize that other people are grieving, it helps them cope. They learn how to network and fellowship with each other, and that helps them heal.

Patricia Highsmith

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

Simon Deng

Most of the fellow Sudanese, they don't want to talk about it. I am standing here for the simple reason (that) I need a solution.

David Carter

When the boating safety message comes from your neighbors, fellow boaters or well-respected local organizations, it has much more credibility,

J. J. Johnson

We jumped at the opportunity to do something to help a fellow officer.

Jenna Ushkowitz

You'll find that fellow gym go-ers are super supportive and friendly. It must be all those endorphins going around!

George Rockwell

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

Barry Eisler

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Brad Henry

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

Bob Casey

I think it's time we had a senator who wasn't pushing a narrow, intolerant ideology that says 'I'm right, you're wrong and you don't know better.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The separatist ideology remains and the violence will be a prolonged one because authorities need time to tackle this complicated problem,

Joel Friedman

Ideology aside, I think he is a terrific guy, a terrific choice,

Joschka Fischer

Violence was a mixture of ideology (and) macho status...,

Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

Joe Slovo

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Delores Killette

We will also be communicating often with customers. We will use every means possible, including the mail, to let them know about service improvements, the reopening of local post offices and other information about local mail service.

Roy Keane

I've had influences from many people including the coaches and players I've worked with.

Paul Tagliabue

We are in the process of working out the specific arrangements, including the day and kickoff time and plans for television coverage.

Marc Schlosser

We are seeing some very positive results in patients, including those at this center.

John Margarita

John Jamieson puts a lot of time in with our special teams. They were outstanding in the game, including three key returns.

Kim Stanley Robinson

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Riquena Farmer

Why would someone do this to him? I don't understand why.

Karen Clay

Why would she take off? ... I don't understand that.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.