Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.

Believe me when I tell you if you're still doing this in ten years from now it won't be one of those acts you'll be doing this with. It just won't!

Every call we make regarding any story is a serious one. But anything of this nature is a difficult call. We have to be sensitive to the viewers and at the same time be responsible and present what are, in essence, horrific acts occurring.

Pankaj Mishra

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

Martha Reeves

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

Hu Jintao

We should all oppose acts of encroachment on other countries' sovereignty, forceful interference in a country's internal affairs, and willful use or threat of military force,

Laura Bush

view the rise of democracy in Iraq as a powerful threat to their ambitions. In this, they are correct. They believe their acts against our coalition, against international aid workers and against innocent Iraqis will make us recoil and retreat. In this they are mistaken.

Donald Kennedy

We are very, very thankful for the acts of kindness.

Javier Solana

We are going to continue to damage as much as possible those units that are responsible for the criminal acts that have taken place in Kosovo,

The timing of this bill, the way it was driven through right as the court was considering this, it was intended to be a clear message to the Supreme Court. I don't think the state Supreme Court acts in a bubble.

The unique thing about both of the disaster acts is you do not have to be a victim to somehow be affected.

Israel is not going to tolerate these acts as we move into this very sensitive period. They either bring them to justice or we bring justice to them.

Michael Gudinski

It wouldn't surprise me if a few acts don't come to either Australia or just to Melbourne because Rod Laver Arena isn't available.

Ariel Sharon

They are acts of self-defense against the same forces of evil and darkness bent on destroying civilized society.

Oscar Wilde

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

The wrong way is to open a Linux company that acts as a wall between the developer and the user,

Mark Twain

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself

We speculate that some, if not most, of these acts of mischief may relate to a non-sanctioned grad rally.

We solved the riddle by finding this really ancient element conserved throughout evolution that acts as a sensing mechanism and tells these fungi when they've changed their environment.

We will not tolerate their ineptitude, turn a blind eye to their failures or ignore acts of terror. They will not be able to shirk their responsibility.

When it detects a chaotic heartbeat, the ICD gives her a shock. It also acts as a pacemaker.

Alexander Lowen

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

Doc Hastings

I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.

Nick Rhodes

With a lot of the new music that's around and the acts that have actually cited us as being influences... I wouldn't be so arrogant as to take somebody's record and say, "I think they've taken that from what we've done," but definitely I like the sound of a lot of things out there, and they're in an area in which I enjoy making music myself.

Craig Ferguson

We wanted something different this year. We're still keeping the musicianship, as opposed to it being a jam band fest. There's also a lot more standard bluegrass acts and we've never had an act like Bobby McFerrin before. You don't have to be a bluegrass artist - you just have to be a great artist to fit in at Telluride.

To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

Wrestling is just something David does well, but it does not consume him. David thinks and acts with the team concept and has an agenda for the team, not for self. Because he took his record to several of the toughest tournaments in the country and won, I believe he is the best four-year undefeated wrestler to come out of Florida.

Cesare Beccaria

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

We certainly hope it acts as a deterrent, even if it benefits one case. These cases are so terrible that they can be life threatening or fatal.

Very talented but very dedicated, accomplished musician. The way he goes about his music business, he looks at this as a business. He wants to become a professional player and he acts that way.

You have to see it to believe some of these trapeze acts they do. There's a school in China that trains them. They are very diligent.

Bob Geldof

You have to really pick and be careful about what is going to get you the biggest mass audience where you could talk about the conditions of the poor people in Africa. That's what we're doing. If you can suggest to me British blacks acts that should be one, that sell in the same quantities as the bands we've got, fine.