Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.

Ruth Ginsburg

This case, here for the second time, raises a question 'of profound importance to the nation. Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests.

Joseph Rotblat

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.

Jennifer Grant

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

John F. Kerry

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.

John Galbraith

Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion

There is an avalanche of evidence that will show that Noe's association with the coin fund was widely known, and making the assertion of concealment is preposterous.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

bell hooks

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

John Bolton

I must say that the report's assertion is simply impossible to believe,

I haven't talked to Lapointe myself, but I take at face value his assertion that he helped Karla because he has helped other convicts turn their lives around -- and good for him,

I'm very concerned and frankly bothered by the flow of information or lack thereof that has occurred in the past months. I don't enjoy the assertion that this council as a body, or individual members, are not being cooperative and causing delay.

Indeed, Netscape's continued success in distributing millions of copies of Navigator over the Web belies any assertion that this distribution channel has in any sense been foreclosed to Netscape.

Rabindranath Tagore

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how c

The issues aren't new, the claim isn't new, ... The assertion at the core of this is groundless and unsubstantiated by the science.

It's his assertion he was not driving at all in a careless or reckless manner. I don't believe that the way he was driving was the cause of the separation of the chipper.

That's a controversial assertion that I'll stand by.

John Newman

All of the evidence in my opinion provides extremely strong support for an assertion that Mr. Coleman was in fact the source of the DNA.

Firmware upgradeability is an outrageous assertion to be made at this point.

Margaret Mitchell

There are proposals where there is little or no evidence available from the executive to support the assertion that the reforms proposed will safeguard the interests of children and support stable families.

John Roberts

We should ignore that assertion in any event, ... as well as the assertion that the EEOC is 'un-American,' the truth of the matter notwithstanding. I have drafted a deliberately bland response for your signature.