Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Clyde Powless

I've been in direct contact with the (Ontario Provincial Police) and we're pretty well assured. . .that there will be no action taken by them.

Mark Roman

This is a new year. Last year is the furthest thing from my mind right now. Right now, my (mind-set) is to go out and control the things I can control. I'm not looking for one thing to vindicate me.

Juvenal

The act of God injures no one.

Bob McGehee

We had a very successful year in 2005, with ongoing earnings of $3.33 per share, significantly exceeding our 2005 guidance of $2.90 to $3.20 per share. These positive results reflected the benefit of positive weather as well as actions our management took to manage costs.

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Jan Eliasson

The realities of the world are a constant reminder that global action and collective efforts are now needed more than ever,

Tim Campbell

The primary call to action is to provide the immediate physical needs of the homeless population in terms of food, shelter and counseling. They also run long-term recovery programs designed to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness.

Rand Paul

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

Lucille Baur

Now that we have Mr. Short in custody, we'll investigate to determine whether or not he is linked to any other recent criminal activity.

Stan Lowe

From our perspective, what I think is important is the prosecution team, in conjunction with specialists from the criminal justice branch, are reviewing the decision and the proceedings. After that review, they will determine what action, if any, should be taken.

Charles Kelly

If (a criminal suspect) makes a million in drug money and plows it into a legitimate business, you can trace the proceeds through there; and once illegal proceeds are commingled with legal proceeds, it contaminates everything.

Richard Holbrooke

one of the worst of the people in the region -- a racist, a separatist, a war criminal ...

Martin Tauber

I feel like a criminal now, but I am not a criminal.

Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Ed Hernando

It never went past because obviously the plaintiff didn't have a case. I have never been involved in a criminal matter in my life. I'm 40, and I've never had a problem before.

Cathy Keefe

You reach a saturation point with domestic tourism. It increases with the population, but that's about it. The growth in travel and tourism is really in the international market.

Gary Dugan

We're looking at growth which is more balanced. We're looking for this economy to move on through domestic demand.

Joe Barton

More refineries will result in more domestic production of gasoline.

Nobutaka Machimura

I have an impression that we have taken too much time with our domestic procedures,

Julie Johnston

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

James Annable

This will have less impact on gross domestic product growth than a good sized hurricane,

Satoru Terao

You never know what will happen in the 500 meters, so I wanted to draw a good position at the start line and jump into a quick lead. I'll try to concentrate on my next race to make it to the semifinals.

Marc Rotenberg

We think it's very useful that people can go to the Internet and get a lot of information, but we think it's appropriate to draw the line where personal information is given at a Web site.

William Neukom

What really happened at the meeting was that Netscape was trying to draw a line around its market and resisted Microsoft to come into that marketplace.

Scott Adams

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

John Smoltz

I said at the start of this road trip, if we can take two out of three and kill the momentum of the teams we're playing with, that's going to help. Certainly, we didn't want to draw it up this way, but it had a happy ending.

Gerald Scarfe

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Denzel Washington

I really want my father's life to be portrayed honestly. I don't want people getting drawn into the theatre because they want to see the last scene where he's shot and killed.

Rich Brooks

I'm going to see the draw play in my dreams for the next three weeks, ... Everybody in the stadium knew it was coming, and we still couldn't stop it.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

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.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Ariel Sharon

first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to give in on Jerusalem. It is the first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to have, I would say, another government ruling -- I speak about the Palestinians -- in Jerusalem.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Thomas Kean

While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government is still moving at a crawl.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Marc LaVorgna

Basically, the plane is stuck in the mud.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Pam Tuttle

I didn't plan to be a quilter. I just took a class, and then I was off and running.

Bob King

You'll never find a more accommodating plane than the Cessna 120. I was always anticipating more in the years ahead, when time and the like allowed.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Confucius

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

Andrew Fastow

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Tamora Pierce

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

George R. R. Martin

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

J. C. Ryle

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Francis Quarles

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Stella Young

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Wendell Berry

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

William P. Young

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

John Wesley

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Guy Pearce

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

Gwen John

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Desmond Tutu

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

Angelina Jolie

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

Thomas Kyd

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

Tacitus

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

Michael Haneke

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Louis L'Amour

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

Margaret Millar

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

Jim Goad

Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

Christopher Hitchens

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Alison Lurie

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.