Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ignatieff

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.

Nolan North

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

Thaksin Shinawatra

We have no involvement at all, ... We don't have any detention or secret jails or whatever.

Mohamed Said

In two minutes, he's already trembling, ... In detention they interrogate us for two months and we had to go through it.

Carla Ponte

Milosevic has very good doctors in The Hague and all that he needs for his health. He can have it even in the detention unit....

Ike Skelton

Meaningful oversight must include proper scrutiny of all U.S. detention facilities, whether those facilities are located on U.S. or foreign soil.

Greg Boyle

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

Manfred Nowak

Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees? It's just nonsense.

Ted Kennedy

We will not be able to move past this scandal as a nation until there is full independent investigation of all that has gone wrong in our detention and interrogation policy, and all the persons found responsible for these shameful policies are held accountable,

Eric Betzig

It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

Dwayne Johnson

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

Tim Curry

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

Nadine Velazquez

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

Lars Feld

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

Craig Venter

One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

Andrea Mitchell

You know, he's not going to have a car. He hasn't driven for 18 years.

Barry Eisler

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

John Lampe

Would any of these people let their family or driven themselves in a Ford Explorer with these tires if they thought there was a problem?

Susan Wojcicki

First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I take seriously. That's the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.

Adrian Peterson

It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.

John Gall

We are looking for him to lead by example and put his experience to the test this year.

Ross Mathews

When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.

Mikko Hypponen

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Rick Neuheisel

Today was an example of what Anthony can do. We let Kyle have the day off and rest his arm, and Anthony picked up, and we didn't miss a step. That's a luxury.

Hugh Evans

When I was 13, I did become a Christian. And so it was when I was 13, that I thought... I just... I really saw a good example in Jesus and how he was just so... such a tremendous radical love and service of the poor. I just thought, 'Man, why can't we all do the same?'

Brian Billick

We have a great example for the young guys. He placed that much value at one more opportunity.

Diego Maradona

You are an example for him because you are a conqueror.

Angela Ahrendts

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Rick Moranis

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

Paul Blank

Today, Wal-Mart executive after Wal-Mart executive talked about the responsibility

Mike Carter

We're not under pressure to fill (Howard)'s seat. We'll take the remainder of this year to search out the next executive director.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Lesli Linka Glatter

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

Bob Ferguson

Ultimately, we want to have the executive back in the people's building.

Jay Ritter

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

Willa Fitzgerald

I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.

William John Wills

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

Emile M. Cioran

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Elaine Stritch

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

Eva Figes

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Dennis Christopher

Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

Victoria Osteen

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

Nicolas Roeg

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Toshihiro Wada

We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.

Gopalakrishnan Venkataraman

We are looking at tourists as gods. If Japanese people come to India, we treat them as gods.

Masahiro Tanaka

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

Anthony Crescenzi

And it was just more robotic statements about the Japanese yen.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.

John Danforth

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Tong Zeng

But most of the compensation suits have been rejected by the Japanese courts.

Steven Norwitz

We think long-term the Japanese market is going to be just fine.

Napoleon Hill

Most misfortunes are the result of misused time.

Richard Butler

We don't want our system misused in that way.

John Green

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

Gregory David Roberts

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

Clayton Ruby

There's not at a hint he's ever misused his passport.

Clint Bowyer

You just go out and try to win the race, ... We'll just try not to qualify 30th anymore. I'm over that.

Georgy Yartsev

Our task was to come here and qualify for the quarter-finals. We did not do that so we were unsuccessful.

Brian Cashman

It's not my style to qualify where we are throughout the process, ... We'll keep talking until we get it done or not.

David Adams

It is rare to qualify for the waiver.

David Fay

How else could she qualify without winning an event?

Dr. Woodcock

It seems like, to many of us, that tremendous opportunities are being wasted right now because trials are being done, and those trials could be used as vehicles to study and qualify biomarkers.

Annika Sorenstam

I don't think I'm going to try and qualify for the Open.

Maureen Heath

I've never seen it like this before. For this many teams to qualify for state ... I've never seen it quite like this. It's fantastic.

Tim DeBruycker

Rich told me before our tryouts he would qualify top three in varsity and he wasn't lying.

John Paul Stevens

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Tennessee Williams

I know all about the tyranny of women.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Albert Einstein

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Stefan Molyneux

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

Thomas Paine

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

Donald Rumsfeld

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Brad Pitt

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

Solomon Short

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Bernard Law Montgomery

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Bruce Jackson

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.