Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Tim Walz

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

Tamara Tunie

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Brian Young

He was firmly opposed to oppression and he recognized God in everyone.

Cecily Strong

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

Jiang Zemin

We will firmly ... safeguard the Hong Kong residents' rights and freedoms in accordance with the law,

David Hume

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

David Hume

When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nordiminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it.

David Hume

There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto just order and proportion. Let speculative reasoners dispute, how far this beneficent being extends his care, and whether he prolongs our existence beyond the grave, in order to bestow on virtue its just reward, and render it fully triumphant.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly.

Dennis Kucinich

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Dennis Miller

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Dennis Miller

How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.

Dennis Miller

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

Alain de Botton

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

John Roberts

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas, ... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Sitaram Yechury

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Jonathan Sacks

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Simone Weil

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Richard Dawkins

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Victor Hugo

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

I think the ruling recognized the government's stance and its assertions.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

Robin Weigert

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

Warner Johnston

Our city's playgrounds are nationally recognized for safety.