Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Doug Miller

The outpouring of money and aid has not been as full. The graphic nature of the tsunami seemed to really capture people's attention.

John C. Calhoun

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.

Mechai Viravaidya

Well I think its more important for them to make more Catholics than to prevent AIDS right now. I hope that at some point that position shifts.

Trey Anastasio

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

Bruce Jackson

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

Abraham Lincoln

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

Catherine Asaro

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

Chris Bentley

What we have to do with tuition is to make sure it invests resources (and) delivers results. That we actually have a framework, together with student aid that will improve access, not take away from it.

Nelson Mandela

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Bhagavad Gita

Those who always practice this teaching of Mine, with faith and free from cavil, are freed from the bondage of Karma.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free

May Sarton

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

Ronald Reagan

Let us resolve that we will stop spreading dependency and start spreading opportunity; that we will stop spreading bondage and start spreading freedom.

Monica Johnson

Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.

Gita Bellin

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Guru Singh

Without serving the True Guru, the soul is in the bondage of deeds done in ego.

William Hurt

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Patrick Anderson

The only sliver of a silver lining is that the tourism industry has held its own.

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Peter Gallagher

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Councilman Banks

We have worked together. We've held up our end.

Connie Clark

We have team rules and every member of our program is held accountable for them.

Don Cooper

You knew who was the boss. That's a refreshing thing now. Here in Chicago, the inmates don't run the asylum. They're held accountable. They know what the rules are.

Walt Smith

We got to play a lot of people, including our 20 freshmen, and they held their own. They usually run the other team's plays in practice, so they are still picking up what we run.

Doug Pritchard

Those who had held them and were guarding them were not present in the location where they were found.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

David Whyte

Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

Chris Ahearn

We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.

Chris Ahearn

We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means, ... What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.

Hans Tietmeyer

The IMF is prepared for the time when there is a satisfactory program available, and that must include the involvement of the private sector,

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Dan Landon

Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include rural areas.

Octavio Paz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Robert M. Pirsig

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Monica Seles

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

Richard Perle

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

E. F. Schumacher

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Edward Gibbon

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

Benjamin Franklin

The States acceded to the Union.

Carol Vorderman

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Lutfi Haziri

We want to resolve the status as soon as possible. Independence is coming.

Cynthia Ozick

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

E. F. Schumacher

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.

E. F. Schumacher

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Alan Watts

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Cesare Pavese

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Deborah King

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

Dick Cavett

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.