Famous Quotes & Sayings

Husain Haqqani

There will be a long-term questioning of the relationship between the citizenry and the Pakistan state.

David Blunkett

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

Dennis Gallagher

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations. The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

Dennis Gallagher

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations, ... The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

Jon Huntsman

I wish I could say this was the governor's effort, but this is your citizenry at work, this is your community at work and it is so great to be your governor during this time,

Paul McMasters

Jeffersonian principle of (an) informed citizenry being necessary for democracy. It's a window on the operations of government and the performance of government officials.

William Blum

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Maurice Hinchey

It's clear price gouging, ... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Pierre Lacroix

With this acquisition, we are convinced that we are securing our goaltending position for many years.

Charles Moose

We're still not convinced we've heard from people we want to talk to, ... We still want to hear from people.

Steve Bruce

They have just gone out of Europe so I am convinced they will want to try and win this competition, that's for sure. Whatever team they put out, when Man United come to town, it is going to be a tough, tough game but one that we will relish and we will look forward to the challenge.

Richard Remus

They had him for 48 hours and finally they convinced him what he should say.

Robert Huber

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

Rick Ball

They're very disciplined, but we watched and we're convinced they just weren't five goals better than us,

William Bennett

an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.

Viktor Yushchenko

There won't even be talk of reconsidering the decision, ... first of all, morally and politically.

John LaChance

He thought what he was doing was morally right?

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Erica Mann Jong

Nothing said or done there should morally count. Everyone is exhausted.

Stephan Sirard

There are questions morally and ethically, but legally, they can't stop us.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Thorstein Veblen

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Steve Allen

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Mark Twain

...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

George Peppard

Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show

Jack Fultz

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

Craig Fugate

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

John Travolta

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

Jonathan Sacks

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

Bill Gates

The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed.

Edgar Mitchell

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

Drake Johnstone

This tracking stock phenomenon doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down to $0.

William S. Burroughs

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Edward Gibbon

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Edward Gibbon

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Billy Sunday

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

Bertrand Russell

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

C. S. Lewis

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Charles M. Schulz

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Chris Carr

It's just crazy. This is worse than 9-11, with everything that's going on with that.

Ali Kerimli

It's even worse than our most pessimistic expectations.

John Updike

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

Angie Murphy

I told them we can't play any worse and we're still in the game.

Michael Boyle

The whiter it is, the worse it is,

Ann Hartman

We don't want anything worse than we've already gotten.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Andy Roddick

I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match.

Thomas Cromwell

He said it was much worse than where we were, ... I didn't want to go in.