Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Karas

We're sort of quiet out here, doing our thing. But we are ... going to be in a position to claim the title of third commercial airport for Chicago.

David Morley

We're going to see some head of household statuses lost this year. You just can't assume that what you claimed last year -- that dependent -- you're going to be able to claim it this year.

Tracy Smith

We're going to primarily rest our starting pitchers and give some guys a chance who haven't had a lot of opportunities to stake a claim for some more innings out of the bullpen. I anticipate Butler will be taking the same approach.

Tom Ridge

We're going to have an entry-exit system based on a machine-readable passport, so we'll be able to verify and validate they are who they claim to be,

Gareth Peirce

We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.

Vince Morris

We're just not there yet. There are some people who feel a little more confident in saying. I'd rather have it hand before I claim that we've got a deal.

Patrick Fearon

We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.

Al Ries

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

Chinua Achebe

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Niger Innis

The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.

Cass Sunstein

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

Arlen Specter

The extremists took over the primary process.

Lewis Hamilton

I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people don't forget.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Ibrahim Rugova

If we don't have an international force there, there will be an empty Kosovo, and that is what the extremists in Belgrade want.

Tariq Ramadan

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

Maajid Nawaz

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

Mr Sharon

If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.

Adam Ereli

We've asked the government of Libya to identify the source of the interference and resolve the problem. And we'll be continuing to investigate it.

David Stern

What he said was he had a conversation with a referee. I found that unacceptable and (also) his declining to identify him. ... He accepted the fine and acknowledged the statement that he got a call from an NBA referee was, shall I say in error, inaccurate. That makes it over.

Judd Gregg

We felt it was better to identify places ... where we knew we were going to have to spend it anyway. We know we're going to have to spend the money on the avian flu,

Dan Veru

We bought some shares recently in a dot.com company that was absolutely annihilated after this recent rout, About.com ( BOUT : Research , Estimates ), which is the ninth-largest Web property of all Web properties. The stock dropped from 100 in late March, to a low of $21. This is a company with a real business model that had blowout first-quarter earnings. And they are actually going to turn a profit in 2001. Investors went from 'everything Internet is good', to the 'everything Internet is bad' mantra. So now you've got to do your homework and look at individual names and identify the business models that are valid. And I think this is one that can go back to its old high.

Thomas Gould

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

Leslie Banks

Usually I identify with the female characters - all of them, actually... their strengths, their weaknesses, their fears, their passions.

Juan Williams

Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.

Susan Little

With the identification of the PKD gene has come a simple genetic test to identify affected cats, and hopefully it will lead to a treatment for cats that develop chronic renal insufficiency due to their PKD.

Wayne Kramer

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

Rand Paul

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

Mayor Amabile

Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for our nation to remember the injustices that Dr. King fought (against). It is a time to remember his fight for freedom, equality and dignity of all races and all people. He was an incredible man ... he forced our nation to look inside and face our own flaws.

Hector Ruiz

I give a voice to the voiceless, keep an eye on border injustices and watch the ever-changing cultural and racial issues in my back yard. The minority in America is constantly asking himself who he is simply because it is so difficult to know.

William McIlvanney

We must improve the shared conditions in which we live, of course, but the essential purpose of that will be in order to inhabit more fully the necessary and unalterable terms of our existence. Take away the avoidable injustices of some lives that we may humanly share in the unavoidable injustice that is in all our lives.

Colleen Ryan

I think there were a lot of untold stories about Beyers Naud. I believe that people should not forget about his contribution to the fight against injustices in this country and all the sacrifices he made.

Tyrone Brooks

I see a reawakening of elected and appointed officials to recognize the injustices of the past, ... We have a responsibility to correct those wrongs as much we can.

Martha Nussbaum

is among America's most prolific and prominent public intellectuals. ... She has worked extensively on education, on development in the Third World, on law, on homosexuality, and above all on the injustices of gender ... she is a dedicated opponent of all that is glitzy and trashy in modern culture.

Neil Strauss

Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

F. Sionil Jose

It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

Richard Parker

Galbraith argued that the truly important economic issues must be evaluated through the lens of economics, politics, sociology, law, ideology and history simultaneously, and that economic analysis and prescription must always keep front and centre both the factors of power and the narratives that societies use to tell their economic stories.

Miriam Toews

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.

John Nassivera

There are very few slave narratives because it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write. This man remembered being captured in Africa when he was 16. He remembers vividly the voyage to the Caribbean Islands, being sold to a ship's captain.

David S. Goyer

New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.

Chris Abani

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

Robin Marantz Henig

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.

Norman Macleod

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

Dinaw Mengestu

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.

David Hare

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Craig Miller

We've always wanted to live in the village. This street offers some good-size houses, big yards. Really kind of private and quiet, but just a few steps away is the hustle and bustle of the village.

Joseph Fiennes

When I was offered the part in ShakespeareIn Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

Jeff Lemire

When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.

Dave Minton

We're meeting an important need by offering our high-end, comprehensive real estate services to clients north of the river, which is the fastest growing area in Southwest Florida. This convenient location will benefit home buyers, sellers, commercial clients, builders and developers.

Elina Kazan

We're making every effort to offer jobs to displaced employees.

Robert Barry

We remain confident GM will offer some assistance to Delphi, but bankruptcy risk cannot be ignored. We think GM would find it hard to justify not offering its struggling, former captive supplier, Delphi, some form of assistance.

James Cameron

We're so scared of piracy right now that we're ready to pimp out our mothers. This whole day-and-date DVD release nonsense? Here's an answer: (Digital cinema is) one of the strongest reasons I've been pushing 3-D for the past few years because it offers a powerful experience which you can only have in the movie theater.

Nitin Gupta

We're going to see some type of portable device that offers some PDA elements but is very consumer-focused, and that means more entertainment functionality.

S. Hughes

We're going to offer them contracts. They are really important players for us, and we've very hopeful in all three cases of getting them signed up and resolved.

Henry David Thoreau

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Jim Richardson

We extend our deepest sympathy to those whose lives were tragically disrupted by the violent storms that swept across Indiana and the Midwest earlier this week.

William Shakespeare

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

William Shakespeare

For grief is crowned with consolation.

William Shakespeare

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

William Shakespeare

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

Alan Hovhaness

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Al Smith

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.