Famous Quotes & Sayings

Levi Woodbury

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.

Paul Krell

We're not going to be tied to an arbitrary date on the calendar. We haven't scheduled it yet. If it's needed we want to make sure it has maximum impact.

Mark McKinnon

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

Johann Most

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

Bruce Tulgan

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

Kofi Annan

The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given.

David Hume

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

Leonard Susskind

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.

Michael Winter

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

Diana Nyad

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

Arthur L. Herman

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Davey Johnson

We've been dying to get to Cuba the whole tournament ... They have a very strong team -- this is their Olympic gold team.

Alejo Carpentier

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Michael Parmly

We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

Avery Johnson

We didn't earn our paycheck. We need to give Mark Cuban a rebate, all of us.

Al Hirt

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Carlos Fuentes

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Marc DeForest

We pride ourselves on being truly independent and basing many of our decisions on how our fans will benefit.

Edmund Daukoru

We know we are taking a risk. But it is not a world free of risks. We've taken a decision full of risks.

Chris Liddell

We have made a strategic decision with respect to next year that, given the set of opportunities and the revenue growth potential we see, we're willing to make that trade-off.

Michael Niggli

We have made a strategic decision to invest heavily in natural gas.

Jim Pogue

We have made an administrative decision to waive the requirement that a prescription drug be purchased in the United States or one of its territories.

Julie Salz

We'd like that decision to be left up to medical guidelines.

Paul Browne

We are not lessening our protection of the system because of (the Homeland Security Department's) decision to return to level yellow.

Paul Browne

We are not lessening our protection of the system because of the Department of Homeland Security's decision to return to level yellow,

Jim Adams

We have a mission to accomplish. Their first obligation is to their employer.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

David Brainerd

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

David Brainerd

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Christopher Simpson

was very uncomfortable with no paperwork to support the mission request. He wasn't going to 'do nothin', as he said, without seeing some money. ...'no tickey, no laundry.'

Carolyn Porco

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Phil Fontaine

There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Friedrich Engels

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Harvey Mackay

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Immanuel Kant

The only thing permanent is change.

George Orwell

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Enrique Iglesias

If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Mark Rey

The quickest way to provide permanent protection is through the development of state-specific rules, not by resuscitating the 2001 rule,

Bryan Robson

But I'll probably only look at that in January. It'd have to be a permanent situation if I make any decision.

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

George Eliot

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

Krishna Sitaula

We will intensify the protests until we get rid of the autocratic monarchy.

Wes Boyd

What was positioned as a safe protest vote has now become a kind of kamikaze vote,

Effi Eitam

We will be there to protest the government's provocations.

Daniel Healy

It angers me and scares me, ... I remember Vietnam. I remember how the protests started out back then. I'm here to do whatever I can.

Phil Ochs

The truest protest is beauty.

John Henry Newman

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

Shahid Shamsi

The strike is to protest the blasphemous cartoons.

Shahid Shamsi

The shutter down strike was to protest the blasphemous cartoons.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Zubin Mehta

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Andrea Morgan

We don?t have that kind of state support.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

Gloria Estefan

I strongly feel that we are all connected,

Kate Bush

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Sofia Vergara

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Miranda Cosgrove

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.