Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Commoner

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Maajid Nawaz

The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

Terence Winter

Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.

Fanny Kemble

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

Martin Indyk

Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests,

Rep. Taylor

It is simply unthinkable that someone would beat another human being for sport. We need to send a message to these abhorrent criminals that being homeless does not make you target practice.

Jennifer Windsor

President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.

Jennifer Windsor

President Bouteflika's effort to wipe the slate clean is an affront to long standing civil society efforts to bring justice and accountability, ... Leaving the legacy of Algeria's abhorrent conflict unresolved creates an obstacle to lasting peace and, by de facto offering immunity to those responsible for grave crimes, raises the specter of future human rights abuses.

William Bennett

I was putting forward a bad argument in order to put it down, ... They reported and emphasized only the abhorrent argument, not my shooting it down.

Thomas Hardy

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Geoff Garin

The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power. This is really an argument not about fighting terrorism but about checks and balances and unbridled government authority.

Barack Obama

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

Carl Sagan

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

John Roberts

The argument of 'We're bigger' is becoming less credible as the open-source movement takes hold. Using your financial might as the basis for justifying your value proposition is not going to withstand this shift.

Pat Riley

The argument is they know what they're supposed to do. At least they tell you, 'We know what we're supposed to do.' So you back off a little bit on the real big muscle work that could cause them injury.

Richard Yamarone

The argument is that Venezuela is not willing or they're not going to be able to (comply with the cuts). Here it is eight, nine days later and they're already backing out. We knew it wasn't going to last, but this is a little on the ridiculous side.

Ralph Catalano

The argument is that in most species, males will compete with each other for females, and females prefer robust males.

Kevin Landis

The argument for optimism is stronger today than it was a year ago. I'm happy having most of my money invested in tech.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

Al Groh

We had emphasized all week long that it was everybody's job in this game to find a way to win. What we put into it is for moments like this -- the satisfaction from accomplishment.

Dawn Seiler

We emphasized doing the things we do well. You can't go away from our strengths. When Pierre took away things, we went to our next option. The kids just wanted it (win) so much.

Ariel Sharon

We emphasized about the need for reform in the Palestinian Authority, and I think that's very important,

Abe Badmus

He?d see us tense, like he used to be. He just emphasized us to go have fun and enjoy the moment.

Melanie Gruer

The prime minister emphasized that it makes little sense to negotiate a victory that we've already won.

Bill Fennelly

Right now, it's the old shoot-not-to-miss syndrome and passing up shots. We've emphasized that you don't pass up shots; if you miss, you miss. We've had a hard time scoring, but it's never been because of our inability to make a shot.

Wendell Jeffries

One of the things we emphasized tonight was the third quarter. Usually we have a slow third quarter with or without the lead and we outscored them by nine and that was something we were looking for.

Antony Beevor

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.

Derek Damon

He really emphasized that the stretch run was the most important part of the season. The start and middle half of the season were to find out who could play with who and letting the new guys learn the systems.

Will Davison

That was really disappointing. I was trying to stay out of trouble and gave him room to get by me, so to be taken out like that seems so pointless. It was very frustrating as we had moved forward and I think we could have scored some good points.

Dennis Hogue

That whole region is good. They've got two key midfielders, one really strong forward and one really strong defender.

David Peterson

We have a lot of young guys and new faces, ... I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do.

Paul Edwards

We need to have some forward thought with all of this development.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

Dalai Lama

Time is always moving. The important thing is to learn from the past and then look forward to the future.

Steve Tew

We have a good relationship with the players and we look forward to talking with them again.

Terry Wallace

We wanted to have a look at him as a forward and see how he handled himself and I thought he went all right.

Paul Pierce

We've got something to look forward to next year.

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Seal

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

Dennis Lobenberg

Most of them are in my garage. I haven't worried too much about putting any signs up because of the weather.

Bubba Crosby

I was thinking about putting down another bunt.

H. Jon Benjamin

I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.

Peter Lonard

We're not sure who we're putting Hensby with.

Eric Ripert

We are putting in a lot of fabrics.

Shawn Oubre

We are putting all our resources into getting the repairs made.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Carol Reed

That's ridiculous. We reported every contribution and every expenditure for the period.

Dante Pistone

Nothing was reported to us. It would be the trucking company's responsibility to do so.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

Ricky Marshall

I don't think it will be that tough. Getting the timing down and shooting touch back will be the hardest, but if I shoot around enough I'll be OK. I may be behind, but not way behind.

Keri Nichols

It also wasn't one of our better shooting games.

Kyle Shiloh

When he's shooting like that, let him go.

Neil Dougherty

We survived the first, but we couldn't survive the second. If you're talking about shooting the ball, (Terry) was the difference. He made some big, timely shots.

Greg Brunner

He was better shooting tonight than he has been.

Monique Bond

Having conducted a preliminary investigation, the shooting was justified.

Bryan Singer

The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.

Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Al Aldridge

Wow. She kind of put on a shooting clinic.