Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Taylor

Music City is Music City wherever you are in the city. The Nashville Palace gives us a place to take the young acts we develop downtown and take them to a bigger stage.

Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

John Jones

Natural disaster is caused by the sin in the world. The acts of God are what happens afterwards ... all the good that happens.

Mel Martinez

From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.

Rocco Buttiglione

If all immoral acts were punished by law, there'd be few people left walking free on the street, we'd all be in jail, including myself probably.

Global warming is real. And here's how it works. The earth has an atmosphere, which acts a blanket. As we put extra pollution into the atmosphere, the blanket gets thicker and the earth gets warmer. It's essentially as simple as that.

Dick Powell

If it's restricted anywhere if it acts like a dam. The water will start backing up real fast.

If the central bank acts this week, it will probably come up with ways to limit rate increases to ease concerns of the government and investors.

I was talking to a good friend of mine on the cruise and we decided it would probably be a good thing to put together a show with two or three strong acts and perform at different venues (other than blues bars).

Tamara Tunie

I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

If these are not acts of war, they are a pretty good imitation.

Peter Travers

She's on the fringes of both films but manages to create indelible impressions in characters the screenplays barely filled in. She's never the same from character to character. Maybe she's too attractive or too much of a chameleon for Oscar voters to realize that a true star - the kind that acts as well as shines - is in our midst.

She's doing well. She acts like she's really on her motor.

O Nanak, false is the speech of one who acts without loving the Lord.

Jools Holland

Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.

Silver is a market that sort of acts like a freight train. It's really slow-moving, and once it gets started in a direction, you cannot stand in front of it.

Angelina Jolie

Sierra Leone is still scarred by the war, but the people have invested a great deal of courage and hope in the truth and reconciliation process, ... It is vital that the government acts on the (Truth and Reconciliation Commission's) recommendations to ensure that history will not repeat itself.

John Conyers

Since September 11, our nation has engaged in a policy of institutionalized racial and ethnic profiling, ... If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today ... he would tell us we must not allow the horrific acts of terror our nation has endured to slowly and subversively destroy the foundation of our democracy.

She is here every Saturday, helping with services for over 20 years. She passes out prayer books, helps people in wheelchairs. If someone has a problem or acts out, she is there to calm them down.

She is a starter and a sophomore, but acts like an upperclassman on the field. She acts like a leader and is very consistent, which is incredible for her.

Stand Watie

I have always been opposed to killing women and children although our enemies have done it, yet I shall always protest against any acts of that kind.

If, in fact, the first trial was terminated because of unfair acts on the part of the district attorney's office, then they shouldn't be rewarded for that. They should be penalized for it, and we believe that penalization would be a bar for a future trial.

Charles Taylor

I did not and could not have committed those acts against the sister republic of Sierra Leone. I think this is an attempt to continue to divide and rule the people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. So most definitely I am not guilty.

Erich Fromm

By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts -- but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced; with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.

Jay Nixon

By preying on those who can least afford to lose their money, this operation is doing little more than stealing, ... These unscrupulous business practices must be stopped, and victims of these unfair and deceptive acts should be made whole.

Richard Whately

Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man

Bruce Fein

He's living in a time warp. The great irony is Bush inherited the strongest presidency of anyone since Franklin Roosevelt, and Cheney acts as if he's still under the constraints of 1973 or 1974.

Edward Kennedy

Before the Senate acts on John Roberts' new nomination, we should know even more about his record, and we should know whom the president intends to propose to nominate as a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor.

Because the enforcement acts are ongoing, we're unable to provide further details.

Ike Turner

Most times, people have some acts that they really like. I mean, I don't have any in particular that I admire. I admire them all, you know.

Millie desperately wants to be president but never wins the election. Ginger Breadhouse who is Miss Perfect beats her out every time, ... On the outside Millie acts very secure, but on the inside she is a mess - she has an alcohol problem and cant understand why they wont allow alcohol on the (library) premises.

Kate Winslet

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

Gray Davis

Mr. Schwarzenegger should be ashamed of himself, ... He supported 187, and he has said that one of his first acts as governor, which he will not get a chance to do, would be to repeal the legislation I just signed granting drivers licenses to hard-working immigrants that pay taxes in our society. So that is not the way to recognize the contribution immigrants are making to our society.