Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Nordstrom

I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, even in the South.

Chris Katongo

I think it could happen at the African Cup of Nations - you never know!

Jim Sinclair

I take great pride in the numerous accomplishments of our management team and the competence, drive and successes of our exploration group which is now being recognized by the growing number of Confidentiality Agreements that are now in place or under consideration. With the largest exploration undertaking on the African Continent, I look forward to more announcements of progress for our investors and potential industry partners.

Alpha Konare

Haiti is an African country outside of Africa. The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can be democratically elected in Haiti.

Leila Zerrougui

This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certainly be a best practice for any other country on the continent or anywhere else in the world.

Lonnie Bunch

He recognized this was an important niche, but I would also argue that he saw himself as contributing to the uplift of African Americans and contributing to a changing America.

John Prendergast

Having a strong African leader, with the confidence of regional governments, who's backed by high-level envoys from countries that matter

Neil MacGregor

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Frank Lambert

Here was the United States just emerging from its fight for independence when the young country finds itself blocked from free trade by North African countries in the Atlantic Ocean,

Keke Palmer

I would like to do a music person's story, a bio. I've wanted to do Aaliyah forever. But I don't want it to always be like, 'I'm singing again in a movie.'

Kathleen Hanna

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Brian Laing

I was just being aggressive and got open shots so I stepped up and made them. We're really doing well and we got another big win against a ranked team.

Chad Pennington

I was looking forward to this game, playing against a defense that gives us different looks and playing more than a couple of series. It was an opportunity that I squandered.

Bill Gibbons

I was looking forward to competing against her for years to come. She really was a rising star.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Jay Mergenthaler

I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and my dad coached her. I started while I was young and I got a lot of good experience playing against top competition from all around the country at the Junior Olympics.

Ken Ham

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

Stephen Fried

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowed to try on the Crown Jewels. He was a great, remarkable man.

Kurt Warner

I was looking for someone that was willing to give me a chance to play the game the way I played again. He definitely allowed me to do that. ... It wasn't necessarily what he had done with quarterbacks in the past, although it never hurts to be a part of a team or with a coach that has had great offensive success and great success with quarterbacks.

Ben Wizner

Kidnapping an innocent man and sending him to a secret location to be tortured is not only illegal, it is immoral. We need a full and complete investigation of a policy that has allowed countless detainees, some of them entirely innocent, to be tortured in our names.

Owen Williams

Know your stuff. That makes it easier to avoid nasty surprises, such as a contract coming up for renewal with no clauses capping price increases in it, when you have allowed yourself no time to renegotiate anything.

Maurice Cheeks

I wouldn't say I'm worried about it, but that's what training camp is going to lend itself to. It's going to allow me to see where it's going to come from.

Lori Allain

I would've been back immediately if they had allowed somebody in my family to take my children. That day.

Todd Genke

Jake threw a great game. He tired a bit in the fifth and lost a little of his control, but in four starts he still hasn't allowed a run.

Larry Fetkenhier

Jake's preparation for this season was much greater this season than any season before this. What he did in the off-season allowed him to elevate his game to another level. He just has a great motor. He played every down hard.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Michael Gurven

Kids can't meet their own needs until their teens, sometimes even late teens. And, as we know, a teenager can eat you out of house and home. The irony is it would be even more difficult if our children grew like primates.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Mary Gordon

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

Orson Swindle

Keeping your computer, personal information and your children safe should be taken seriously. Not using common-sense precautions like firewalls, virus protection and parental controls is like leaving the door of your house wide open all night.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Elisa Massimino

The House and Senate have now spoken loud and clear, with a single message ? the United States will not permit cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Roxane Gay

When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.

Anton LaVey

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Rob Bell

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Stephen Kinzer

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Mary Baker Eddy

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Philip Guedalla

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Pythagoras

Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.

Terry Tempest Williams

I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."

John Berger

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Doug Heller

The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It's hard to imagine that these numbers won't rattle the cages pretty severely.

Richard Hamilton

I thought we were great defensively. We pressured the ball, got in passing lanes, forced everything baseline. That's what we wanted to do tonight. We weren't worried about our offense. We wanted to come out and try to make a statement.

Ron Carey

I think working people have been taking it on the chinlong enough, ... It's acrime that they have forced our members into a strike.

Gary Knapp

We took residents completely out of this project. No residents will be forced to hook up the sewer.

Tom Wright

I think we got something accomplished. I think we forced them into this.

David Murdoch

I think we just placed our stones better today. We never made a messy shot. We forced a lot of pressure on Canada.

Tage Clausen

He was not forced out. He's on vacation, that's all.

Brian Bishop

Pine Plains outplayed us. They forced a lot of turnovers and we couldn't handle the pressure.

Wendy Kaminer

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

Ward Churchill

As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Winston Churchill

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Malcolm X

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Marshall McLuhan

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Mark Hatfield

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Patrick Henry

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Martin Winterkorn

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

John Catsimatidis

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

Ben Bernanke

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Marilyn Tam

They told me something very interesting, they promote on merit. What a refreshing idea.

Ciaran Hinds

I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Ben Williams

I never had a racial term thrown to me the whole time I was at Ole Miss. We were progressing.

Forrest Pearson

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.

Will Durst

I didn't know that was a racial epithet. I thought it was a geographical designation.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Edmund Hillary

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Sarah Addison Allen

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Ric Keller

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

William Faulkner

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

Willard Scott

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Darryl Stallworth

I submit to you that it is a no-brainer. By the victim's own admission, it was a robbery.

Kit Williams

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Andy Stanley

To understand why, submit and apply.

Vidya Balan

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.