Famous Quotes & Sayings

What rights are there for homosexuals? The only right is to be led to repentance. To live in such defilement of the body, in such dishonour, in such abomination, while all the time asking for liberties the church cannot grant, is unbelievable.

We pride ourselves on empowering ordinary citizens to be the Sierra Club where they live. In essence we're asking local leaders to be members of boards of directors in local organizations and to run them. We're asking them to take on administrative tasks, which has to come with the territory of being a leader, but it's not something that they initially got involved with the Sierra Club to do.

Teri Garr

I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me, 'What's your favorite movie?' And I never know what to say.

Vicente Fox

What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

When there's a criminal investigation going on, we can't go in like a bull in a china shop, asking questions.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

Bernie Siegel

There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're doing very well, so keep doing whatever you are doing.' They should be asking what their patient is doing and pass the information to other patients.

Alan Cooper

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

We are currently the only Ohio stop on the tour. People from as far away as Indiana have called asking for information.

Scott Skiles

Those are all John's decisions -- he's the boss. But we talk about it every day. I've yet to be saddled with a player without John asking me.

Yeah, but how many did we walk? You walk seven and hit one, and you're asking for trouble.

John Hall

We're doing more than probably any other developer has put into this town. We're not asking for a CDBG grant or a TIF. We're here to get input from the City Council. We have to try to work together on this project to make it viable for both sides.

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

George Galloway

If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

Atul Gawande

To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next - that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.

Alison Gopnik

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

Ted Stevens

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

Alexander Pushkin

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

We'd love to get back to Boston. People have been asking us about it all year. You get to play at home and in front of your home fans. It's just down the street.

We definitely competed. I feel bad for the guys. They competed for 90 plus minutes. You're just asking for a break, just for a ball to bounce your way. That's all it's going to take to turn it around.

We don't know what's in it, but we know the result. The judge is asking that we proceed with the sentencing.

Cindy Sheehan

We want to hold this administration accountable. Nobody's asking them the hard questions but you know what, we're willing to come here.

Ashley Tisdale

I don't like asking for an autograph, but I would like to take a picture with Jessica Simpson because I love her style!

There are three things that we're basically asking for: more time, more choices and more money.

There are not a whole lot of high-cost things we are asking them to do that would put the whole project out of the ball park.

Upper-level retail, no matter where it is, has always been a challenge to lease. The retail market is good on Michigan Avenue, but when you start going up high, you're asking for trouble. The right move, I think, would be to redeploy that space into other uses.

Emily Meade

I don't want fame as far as the tweeting or the image of it. But, the idea of being famous is actually exciting to me, just because then you can have a choice in what you do. I would like to be at a point where I'm not asking for parts anymore, and I'm actually just choosing between a part that I want to do.

Tony Hawk

I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's skateboard and stood on it. I started to roll down the alley, and I yelled at my brother asking him how I turn the thing. At the end of the alley, I just jumped off, picked up the board and physically turned it around.

Beyonce Knowles

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.

Bill Ayers

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

Kevin Whately

I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back.

To top it off, the Bank is asking these countries to keep making non-refundable debt payments to the Bank instead of using the funds to fight poverty, HIV/AIDS, and now avian flu in Africa. We call on the US Executive Director and the World Bank's Board to do the right thing and scrap these delays when they meet on Thursday.

Steve Rauschenberger

You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign. I mean, if there's one thing that's clear ... he knows more about his campaign organization than he knows about state government.