Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's one thing to express an idea or such, but when you commit acts of violence in support of that activity, that's where our interest comes in.

Mickey Gilley

It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.

In some cases, you had detainees that had made some incriminating statements about other detainees, and about third parties back in their home countries. In others, detainees had made statements that could be taken by enemy forces as disloyal acts against them. In others, detainees indicated that they had cooperated with U.S. forces, which could be held against them by individuals in their home countries.

John Ashcroft

Individuals who commit treasonous acts against the United States will be held fully accountable,

Rebecca MacKinnon

'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do.

In fact, there's a working cell phone that you can fasten onto your dog's collar and call him anytime that you want. It acts as a little speaker phone.

David Coe

I guess you could say I've always been country; maybe more so than a lot of the other acts you listen to today.

Monica Crowley

If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their faces on the side of bus.

It has to do with a fair trial. If, in fact, the first trial was terminated because of unfair acts by the state, then they shouldn't be awarded for that. They should be penalized for it.

Kofi Annan

Iraq holds America and Australia fully responsible for such provocative acts that endanger civil marine navigation in the Arab Gulf,

Annie Duke

By limiting your losses to 30 big bets, you are effectively minimizing the time you spend playing with a poor table image, playing passively, or steaming at the table and maximizing the amount of time you spend playing your A-game. If you don't go beyond 30 big bets, you won't dump off large sums when you are playing poorly or are in a bad game. Loss limiting acts as an objective stop-gap.

His acts were cowardly, your honor. Jason was a coward.

Brad Jacobs

Caffeine acts as a stimulant in our body. For many people, ingesting caffeine results in a boost of energy. However, when the caffeine wears off, people often feel more fatigued than prior to ingesting the coffee.

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.

Alex Chilton

I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.

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.

William Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

The internet is an exceptional medium in that it now acts as a source of entertainment, information and communication for the majority of the UK population. Advertisers are realising this, and allocating their budgets accordingly.

Confucius

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Dannii Minogue

The only pop acts still here from when I was around are Kylie and Natalie Imbruglia.

A couple of years ago ... we didn't have any U.K. acts in the Top 200. That situation is beginning to rectify itself.

Street rallies are not allowed today to prevent any breach of peace. All acts on the streets that tend to anger and are divisive must be discouraged and people involved are advised to go home.

Some said it was horrible to get exclusives of any kind, that traditional retailers had broken these acts for years and this was the kind of thanks they got. But others said that when they were developing an act they probably would have done something like this.

Iris Chang

Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat

Some philosophers say that all work is full of faults and should be given up, while others say that acts of sacrifice, charity, and austerity should not be abandoned.

So the longer this goes, the more pleased the terrorists would be because it gives them the opportunity to intervene with acts of violence and, secondly, because they will claim it is an illustration of the inability of politicians in Iraq to come together.

Ben Lovett

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

Ben Lovett

There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.