Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin McLeavy

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it

T. J. Miller

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Michael Leunig

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

Dennis Hastert

unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt.

Bob Haligowski

It's just like Michael was road kill. It's absurd if they're not allowed to charge him with causing our son's death, because he caused our son's death.

Marc Carroggio

Although the story is absurd and at times somewhat humorous, it produces a hateful image of the institution and it is well known that hateful images like this produce feelings of hatred in those who lack a critical sense.

Anatoly Lebedko

This is absurd and nothing more than the agony of people trying to cling to power. Thousands of people will take to the streets because they cannot be denied a right to choose.

Leo Tolstoy

It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.

Malcolm Sharp

Wayne and I are trying to keep an even keel and talk to our boys a lot, more than we normally do. This has been a real binding event. It kind of keeps your perspective.

Francis Wacziarg

We've always tried to focus on productions that bind two cultures.

Rick Keller

We've wanted to do this for 25 years. No sense in getting in a bind about one more year.

Bhagavad Gita

Works do not bind Me, because I have no desire for the fruits of work.

Ban Ki-moon

All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

Dan Shechtman

A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.

Maajid Nawaz

A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.

St. Aquinas

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions

Bible Bible

Put on love, which binds everything together in harmony.

Pat Taylor

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

James Calvin

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Don Brownlee

We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.

Mukul Krishna

Unless the French government comes up with something more concrete, saying that the $8.50 will be collected and distributed in such a way so that all the stakeholders welcome this new distribution medium, this won't go through.

Jeffrey Hammond

All preliminary data and test samples collected near the spill site indicated that there was no immediate public health concern.

Paul Sereno

The most common thing we stumbled on is a very long-snouted and very large crocodile. We collected a 6-foot skull. The crocodile would have been about 50 feet long.

Uwe Andersen

They have collected protest votes, and the votes of people who normally don't vote.

Dan Cooper

This is UCI's first nurse-led grant sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research. The exercises will be performed by a team of neonatal-trained nurses and data collected and interpreted by a group that includes nurse investigators.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

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.

Kim Beazley

They have in their various parliaments, the power to pass laws related to this,

Rosemarie Arnold

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

Sean Egan

There may be more lawsuits and a fine, but I think they will be manageable,

Andy Fisher

There may be a myriad of laws that have some relevance.

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.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Mike Davis

About 12 million nationwide qualify for this and they are automatically enrolled,

Luke Zeller

It seems like a million years ago, I mean, it seems like so long ago.

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Edmond Rostand

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Bess Myerson

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Charlaine Harris

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Charles Hodge

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Carl Jung

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Edward Kennedy

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

Barbara Tuchman

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

David Howell

Strangely I'm not that disappointed. It was just one of those days, and I just didn't play very well. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

Padgett Powell

I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

James Williams

Yeah, I suppose so. We'll have to look it up somewhere.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Mike Radke

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

Jamon Gordon

They're supposed to give you a warning after the first one. But ...

Tony Skinn

It's not supposed to happen. But we're making it happen.

Lamar Butler

It?s not like we?re supposed to be here. So we?re just having fun.

Lynette Donnelly

There was something big I was supposed to do.

Trent Strickland

It was supposed to come to me. But it didn't get to me.

Jesse Palmer

It was supposed to be a toss. I think there was some miscommunication.