Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Secondat

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Lydia Lunch

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

Andy Roddick

My aggression out there is my weapon, ... ... I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

Dan Heckman

The positive from this week is the aggressiveness. We'll continue to work on all parts of the game.

Bobby Engram

We started backed up, and you call plays a little different. You run plays a little different. But that's no excuse. We have to find ways to move the football and come out with the same aggressiveness that we had in the first half. I think we did that. I just think Atlanta came out and they changed up a few things, they did some different things that broke our flow, and they made some plays. Now we have to find a way to respond.

Tarik Glenn

Whenever we run the ball that gives us an aggressiveness. It gets those safeties really interested in what's going on up front. If we can (draw) those guys up, our receivers are going to have a field day out there.

Char Morett

The refs did a good job on the game even though the aggressiveness went on a little longer than I would have liked.

Yoda

Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.

Siegfried Sassoon

I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

Avery Johnson

When he is aggressive and mixing his game up, they don't play him for one particular area of his game. He showed up his post-up game, his driving ability, his 3-point shot and his in-between game.

Derek Fisher

When the opportunities are there, I'll probably have to be a little more aggressive offensively, instead of just waiting for a shot in the corner.

Mike Holland

When the home re-sale numbers came out stronger than expected, it gave people the excuse of saying the Federal Reserve will continue to be more aggressive rather than less aggressive so let's sell the stocks.

Tom Rachman

There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them.

Todd Clark

We're going back down to yesterday's lows and see if they hold. I think we're going back down to the October lows. The economic data doesn't support any aggressive buying.

Michael Blackwell

We're seeking to have them put more teeth in their program, ... The program isn't aggressive enough, I don't feel.

John Coumarianos

We're confident about the longer-term prospects for the fund. Although it may not keep up with its more aggressive peers in a tech rally, we think its attention to long-term cash flow generation can help it in a slower-growth environment, when an earnings miss can send a richly priced stock reeling.

Mark Brinkmann

We're committed to providing the most up-to-date information we receive, and will take aggressive steps to help our customers, retailers and distributors.

Corey Rouse

We're just going to play like a wild pack of dogs. Play aggressive and get a win.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

Kate Bush

Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

Johnny McDaid

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Paul Rice

She always encouraged her kids to do whatever they wanted.

Dan Province

She was my right hand woman and always encouraged me. She kept me on track.

Heather Smith

She's been a real positive influence. She's still helping me out. She encouraged me to do this (coach) and that's why I did it.

Richard Murray

We're really excited about it. We're also encouraged by the number of competitors who've signed up. So long as the weather holds up, we should have a great day.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

David Icke

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of 'Do what you like so long as you don't impose it on others'. Authority's role should be in protecting the unwilling from the will of another. After that, they should push off and leave us alone.

David Hume

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

Ben van Berkel

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Charles Kingsley

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

Charles Darwin

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Alanis Morissette

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

Bill Haley

We're gonna rock around the clock.

Bill Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Joel Edgerton

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Diego Rivera

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Geena Davis

We're showing kids a world that's very scantly populated with women and female characters.

C. S. Lewis

Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

Sarah Snook

I've been really lucky in the work that I have done so far, to work with good female actors in lead roles. Lisa McCune in 'Blood Brothers' and Claudia Karvan in 'Spirited' and then Susie Porter in 'Sisters of War.' They've been working, and they've got good lives around them as well.

Gail Patricelli

There are the males that never give intense displays; they just kind of ... don't have it. Then there are the males that are too intense too soon before the female is ready, so those are the males that don't know how to use it.

Barbara Mertz

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Johann G. Seume

Music is the key to the female heart.

Mark Bradshaw

She is probably the most athletically gifted female diver I have ever had here at ASU. She is not just a springboard diver or a platform diver. She is good on all of them.

Nancy White

She kind of reminded me of a female Scrooge. She was very unappreciative.

Charles Darwin

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Billy Beane

(Macha) did a fine job. We obviously had significant player turnover and injuries. The end result was good. It was great to see the young guys make the progress they did.

Paul Dergarabedian

Last year was a tough year anyway, and this puts a fine point on it.

Louise Nurding

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

Fran Townsend

There are a lot of dedicated, fine people at FEMA. They're very focused on providing a better response to the nation this year. And we need to be focused on that.

Tove Lo

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Bryan Robinson

What we did, that's all fine and dandy. We can walk around here with our (division championship) hats and shirts. I don't want to take away from what we did. That's a special thing. But nobody remembers any of that if you lose that first (playoff) game when you're at home. That would be a tough pill to swallow.

Mark Richt

(One game) we have looked like a finesse team, a passing team, run it here and there. And the next time we just flat out ran it and didn't even do anything to try and loosen the perimeter.

Arthur Conan

Of all ruins, that of a fine man is the saddest.

Charles Jencks

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Britney Spears

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

Aaron Stanford

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Ashley Madekwe

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

Ashley Benson

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

Denise Miller

One of the issues is that our icons are not yet our icons.

Corazon Aquino

I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

Andy Cohen

We looked for the icons of the genre,

Chord Overstreet

I dont want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I dont want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

Billy Hughes

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Kathleen Carroll

While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made

M. Wolfe

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

Tracy Morgan

The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!

Audrey Meadows

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

Audrey Hepburn

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Audre Lorde

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

Audre Lorde

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

Denzel Washington

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Denise Levertov

I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

Denise Levertov

If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.

Charles Darwin

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, butwhether or not proportionally to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of skull smaller; the outlines of the body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.