Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Pietramala

What a luxury it is to have both Jesse and Scott returning. Both of these young men have proven they can handle the job and both have won big games for us. To see them work together to make each other better is part of what has made this team so close.

Bill Alexander

We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.

Tamara Tunie

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

David Thomas

With Nate just putting his hands up, a lot of players will adjust their shots - it's such a luxury to have someone like that. Blocks can be momentum changers and can add a lot to the game.

Randy Raper

We're fortunate that we have that luxury and we're crazy if we don't use it.

Darcy Tucker

We're not afforded the luxury of looking past any games.

Greg Aiello

We're being consistent with what every other sport does. We've had the luxury of having more space, but that has changed. There's too much congestion on the sidelines.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

Chris Bangle

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.

Ludwig Mises

When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

Matthias Platzeck

We grew up under dictatorship, wanted democracy and were quickly given responsibility. That sharpens the view for risks, but also for chances.

Daniel Ortega

We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.

John Reid

We're in the south to help and protect the Afghan people to reconstruct their economy and democracy. We would be perfectly happy to leave in three year's time without firing one shot.

Alan Bullock

If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

Andrew O'Hagan

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.

Larry Kersten

Elitism - It's lonely at the top. But it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.

Henry Hyde

Yes, there have been old and senile members, but that's the price you pay for letting the people choose their representatives. The elitism that says they don't know what they're doing is very troubling.

Matthew Felling

The Oscar gap that exists between the academy and its audience isn't snobbery or liberal elitism as much as it reflects a different grading scale. Most moviegoers look for entertainment, while the academy looks for art.

David Boothe

We need to be pro-children and pro-literacy of all kinds. Embrace, respect, and value everybody's tastes and everybody's choices. When you take away elitism and judgment, such good things happen.

Giorgio Armani

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

John Ridley

In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

Walter Isaacson

It was elitism, sort of a condescending elitism that looked down on Franklin for having basic middle class values.

Paul Kellogg

For a lot of people, price and the length of performances are obstacles to coming into an opera house. Also there is a sense of elitism that keeps people from coming into the doors.