Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayad Allawi

The government's position is clear and specific to ending armed manifestations, stopping acts of sabotage and making the armed men leave Najaf and the mosque,

Adam McKay

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.

Yevgeny Primakov

We should not create a precedent when NATO acts outside the territories of its member-states without a relevant decision by the U.N. Security Council,

Gerald Vizenor

Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

Bill Condon

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

Brendan Myers

The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'

William Blake

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The ordinary civilians who risked their lives -- and thousands lost their lives in countless acts of heroism that we'll never know about -- somehow it's important that the public be reminded of that,

We will probably focus on some of the Southern rock throughout and then focus on memorabilia from some of the acts we've booked, too. One of the things that we will be doing is training our team members on the history of those pieces so they can explain to customers what some of it means.

We will probably focus on some of the Southern rock musicians throughout. And then focus on some of the acts too.

There is a consensus in America that some criminal acts are so horrendous that the death penalty is wholly appropriate punishment. Someone involved in a conspiracy to murder thousands of innocent people could easily fit in this category.

Those acts could be abstaining from meat on some other day of the week or volunteering or making a donation to help the needy.

This year, we'll see games based on musical acts that will be successful.

we also need to differentiate between acts of terrorism, such as what happened in the United States, and acts of struggle to liberate a land, which is the case of the Palestinian uprising.

Harry Browne

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

Allan Bloom

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.

Gabrielle Giffords

As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.

We wait 45 hours to rescue miners and it's too late, but the Legislature under the prodding of our governor acts in eight hours.

Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us,

John Ashcroft

We will find the people responsible for these cowardly acts and justice will be done,

John Ashcroft

We will expend every effort and devote all the necessary resources to bring the people responsible for these acts -- these crimes -- to justice,

We would never have arrived at this hopeful moment without the countless acts of courage and faith of people like the woman we honor today,

We can now fine the property owners for acts committed by their tenants,

We cannot rely on individual acts of compassion.

You have to let these people think they're discovering the acts for themselves by word of mouth.

Thomas Bangalter

When you look at what we can call the golden era of concept albums, which starts in the mid or late '60s and ends maybe in the early '80s, it's an interesting time for music. You see all these very established and popular acts and bands and artists that were somehow on the top of their game but really trying to experiment.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

Kyle Kinane

I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the whole family' acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they're scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They're more honest with the audience with who they are.

J. William Fulbright

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

For probably the first time in American history, civilians are asked to make no sacrifices in a time of war. We don't have a draft. There is no gas rationing the way there was in World War II. There is no increase in taxes; we get tax cuts instead. These acts are small ways of showing some recognition, because we're not doing it any other way.