Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

David Hilbert

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Barry Bostwick

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

Derek Fisher

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

Deb Caletti

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Deb Caletti

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Alan Dershowitz

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Ben Whishaw

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Benazir Bhutto

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

Athol Fugard

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Arnold Bennett

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

Frederic Bastiat

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

Alan Dershowitz

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

Alan Dershowitz

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

Atifete Jahjaga

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

Denis Waitley

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Bruce Sterling

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

Campbell Newman

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

Bob Woodward

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

Benjamin Franklin

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Doug Berry

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

Don DeLillo

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

Charles Stanley

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.