Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Woodworth

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Peter Bergen

Where else in the world is a government helping the civilians they harm in conflict? Marla was very proud of this fact,

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

Anja Niedringhaus

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Timothy Noah

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

Bryan Whitman

We don't target any civilians with any of our weapons. And to suggest that U.S. forces were targeting civilians with these weapons would simply be wrong.

Sadie Jones

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

David Briggs

Today was a holiday for some people and that's why we had light volume,

Gail Lavielle

We are seeing nice traffic up to the last minute. We think (the holiday season) is going right down to the wire.

Alan Sillitoe

For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.

Alan Titchmarsh

My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

Alan King

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

Alan Moore

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

Alan Bradley

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Al Sharpton

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Rick Watson

We're kind of in the position that everybody's innocent until proven guilty.

Steven Cohen

We don't have little Miss Innocent who was sprayed for no reason at all.

Shah Zaman

We are innocent but do not know as to why were we targeted.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Patricia Briggs

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

May Sarton

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

Benjamin Crump

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

Alex Pettyfer

Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.

Charli Thorne

We don't have to adjust. We've been preparing for this.

Catherine Deneuve

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Robert Janssen

We are preparing like this thing is going to go (to trial).

Alvin Wyatt

McCloud is the quarterback for this week. He's the quarterback we're preparing to go with.

Alison Jackson

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

Jacques Santini

We had several video sessions when we were preparing for the match,

Mario Pescante

Up until yesterday we were preparing an Olympics, starting today we are organizing.

Gary Pinkel

He has been preparing for this season since January.

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.