Famous Quotes & Sayings

Standing Bear

That the Indians possess the inherent right of expatriation as well as the more fortunate white race, and have the inalienable right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' so long as they obey the laws and do not trespass on forbidden ground.

Michel Faber

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)

Karl Kraus

Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.

Francois Rabelais

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

Murray Gell-Mann

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

Latin Proverb

When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden

Dane Bradshaw

We've all just learned so much from (Pearl), and we're a reflection of him on the court. He's working just as hard as we are on the sidelines, and we're just very fortunate to have him as well as the rest of his staff. It really has become a perfect fit, and I'm very happy for the seniors that they're able to have this success under him in their last year.

Avery Johnson

We struggled to guard Yao in the first half, but we made some adjustments and were much more physical in the second half. We were fortunate enough to hold him down then.

Geno Auriemma

We're incredibly fortunate (to still be playing), and we're going to make the most of it.

Bruce Benson

We're fortunate to have two people like that,

Jacque Bartow

We're fortunate to have so much depth. We wanted to rest some of the varsity kids and let the JV girls show what they could do.

Claude Julien

We're fortunate to have players who can play a variety of roles. With the new rules and all the penalties, we have to be in a position where we can get as many people involved so that our top players aren't on the ice all the time.

Lindy Ruff

We're fortunate to come out of here with two points, but it's a game we found a way to win. That room always responds. You know when you push them what you're going to get.

Johnny Damon

We're fortunate that the Yankees lost. Everyone is scoreboard watching, the players and the fans.

Mitch Dorger

We're fortunate that the game always generates a lot of interest. But with these two universities, and the success that they've had, I think there's a lot more interest than in most years.

David Cardwell

It's no secret that the Indians and Orioles here are looking for new spring training deals.

George Crook

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

Geoff Hoon

encouraging because it shows the Indians are showing a first step back from the brink.

Daryl Kimball

If the Indians mean what they say (about not testing), they should have no quibble with this provision.

Richard Armitage

We have to seize the moment, ... probe the minds of the Pakistanis and Indians to see if there is not a way to lower the temperature.

Sundar Pichai

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

Subcomandante Marcos

We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

Melissa Leo

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Mike Harris

I want the f------ Indians out of the park,

Madhur Bhandarkar

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

Martin Freeman

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.

Jeff Lemire

There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.

Monty Python

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

James Gray

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Peter Beck

The very nature of sweeping reforms would be inherently destabilizing to the regime. So it's more likely they would be halting reforms.

Alain Sergile

This is something that is not inherent in the operating system.

Joe Laszlo

E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Mike Garcia

A lot of states have laws where you can't get into school without proof of immunization.

Rosemarie Arnold

This plea is Step One in the vindication process. The lawsuit is Step Two.

Ziad Asali

As a practical matter, they think that the new members of the parliament will be more amenable to pass these laws than the present one. They're comfortable that it will pass then. But they do not rule it out now.

Lloyd Chapman

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Lorenzo Jones

School zones laws have contributed to the overall incarceration of urban residents.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.

Morris Iemma

These are the toughest laws in the country.

Jason Catlett

That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Earl Warren

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Charles Stanley

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

Alex Brown

The teachers here are way cool, ... If you obey the rules and turn in your assignments, you get parties.

Nancy Pelosi

This isn't about whether you want to protect the American people or not, this is about whether you want to obey the law.

Thomas Jefferson

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Stephen Holmes

It did not specifically say in so many words that he was not to be on the premises. It said that he was supposed to obey all laws.

Moby

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Mark Keller

It would also be wise for truckers to obey the posted weight limits.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Mark Heiderscheid

It's a tough part about the sport of soccer. You can really possess it a lot and do a lot of things right but you have to score goals.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Virginia Postrel

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Jonathan Schell

No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.

Dan Colen

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

Gordon W. Allport

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

Erik Crawford

Every possession was gold. It seems like every time we play Southern, it comes down to the end.

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Aristotle

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Douglas Kennedy

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Andrew Bacevich

For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

Thomas Jefferson

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Robert Henri

The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.

Chief Joseph

I know that my race must change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Edward Gibbon

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Edward Gibbon

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

Eddie Marsan

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

David Ricardo

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

David Icke

The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Edmond Rostand

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.

Eddie Huang

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

David Hume

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

David Duke

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.