Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Clark

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

Tony Blair

What is happening in Kosovo is entirely unacceptable and the only way of stopping it is if President Milosevic knows that if he continues with these policies of barbarism towards the ethnic community there he will get a punishment from the international community,

Leon Bourgeois

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.

Yahya Jammeh

The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!

Winthrop Rockefeller

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.

Christina Rocca

This is just the type of barbarism that the war on terrorism is determined to stop. I express my sympathies to the families of the victims.

Marc Singer

When you watch all these other projects, you always see the little guy, sitting in the corner, feeling sorry for himself and blaming the whole world, ... You don't see a normal person.

Gary Helmig

They tried to hold it together, and found ultimately they couldn't. It's curious they just woke up to this level of miss. They're blaming the economy, but competition is a much underrated factor.

Deron Clark

There was not a lot of fire in our team, and the results were indicative of that. I know we had a lot of guys out there who hadn't played in a while, so you can't expect immediate success. I'm not blaming them necessarily, but as a group, we didn't get at it today.

Maurice Ager

There's always an opportunity to get somebody the ball, but you know, I'm not blaming nobody.

Maurice Ager

There's always opportunities to get someone the ball. But I'm not blaming anybody. We have to look at the film and see where I was open and I'm not really sure to be honest with you.

Mark DiCamillo

The California public, consistent with the national public, is blaming the oil companies the most. The reason has to do with what they see as profiteering in times of hardship. When prices run up, the oil companies make more money. They're already having record profits. The public doesn't like that situation. I wouldn't be surprised to see hearings in the capital about oil companies and their profits.

Shibley Telhami

The most important part of the commission is that you have a process that is credible, ... The Palestinians, in particular, feel that the U.S. has jumped to the conclusion of blaming them first and they have wanted to investigate that.

Xue Chongde

Right now we do have sufficient government subsidies. I'm not blaming these adopters after all they did contribute to the zoo. We are in fact very appreciative.

Candace Corlett

The modern grocer needs to stop blaming Wal-Mart and focus on improving the shopping experience.

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

Dan Senor

We're hopeful that the deadline will be met. The Governing Council has given us every indication that it will.

Tecumseh

As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably make them a visit. Should they offer us any presents of goods, we will not take them; but should they offer us powder and the tomahawk, we will take the powder and refuse the tomahawk.

Aaron Neumann

It's a simple ordinance that the council can pass that defines what a 'high-risk' loan is and then provides counseling to those who qualify, as a way to end the many foreclosures and bankruptcies that devastate already fragile communities.

Vernon Brown

This is a major policy shift and I think as a council we need to look at that policy change.

Ali Al

It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which has cooperated fully with the court to end this case,

John Lindsay

It relies on that same council to make decisions that would promote integration and that may not be the desires of some of the other districts.

John McKenna

It really was the council putting in the effort that made me think how sensible this all was,

Hans Blix

I told the council that we hope we will have been through the main part of the document -- which is about 3,000 pages -- by Friday.

Caspar Weinberger

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

Richard Myers

This is one of the things that we have seen over time, that in the no-fly zones there will be surface-to-air missiles moved in, moved around and moved out,

Richard Shelby

There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away.

Tasnim Aslam

There is no response from the US on our protest lodged after the missile attack.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Neve McIntosh

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Cliff Carrier

We've got it pretty well covered. The numbers out here don't matter, though. It's the numbers inside, and there's nobody in there.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Mitch Daniels

A survey shows that nobody would pay a toll to go to Evansville.

Charles Dickens

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

Alanis Morissette

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Alan J. Pakula

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Alan Jay Lerner

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Al Sharpton

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Al Pacino

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

Akshay Kumar

It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.

Chris Colfer

From this day on, I refuse to let anyone bring me to a point where I can't take a horrible situation and spin it into something beneficial. I will never let anyone make me feel anything I don't want to feel again or rob me of the passions that make me who I am.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Bill Richardson

It is our view that this is a strong resolution with teeth that would send an unmistakable message.

Benjamin Franklin

No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.

Ken Williams

I've never made a New Year's resolution before. I didn't think about it until now.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Rajneesh

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

Hillary Clinton

We need some leverage with the Russians, because they are not going to come to the negotiating table for a diplomatic resolution, unless there is some leverage over them.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Liu Jianchao

The timetable for resuming the talks is unpredictable.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

Rachel Weisz

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Brian Dawkins

They have some weapons over there, ... We're going to have to come and play. And I think we know that.

Iain Banks

Tell me, what is happiness? - Use of Weapons

Douglas Coupland

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

Adolf Hitler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Abu Bakar Bashir

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Aldrich Ames

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

Alexander Ovechkin

My weapon isn't my shot. It's me.

E. P. Thompson

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.