Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Sharpton

In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.

Philip Alston

When defense lawyers are murdered, the rule of law is doubly at stake. Human rights law requires that all murders be investigated in a credible manner. Moreover, defense attorneys are critical to a fair trial, and their systematic assassination threatens the entire process.

Bob Ney

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

Jennifer Granholm

We're not expanding the recall. All the attorneys general's intention was, was to let consumers know there was this list of tires out there and that folks who have the tires do have some options,

Henry Eng

We aren't making any public comments because of pending litigation and are waiting to hear from our attorneys about what we can and can't do.

Nancy Mathis

We have attorneys working on it, and we're trying to get it out as quickly as possible.

Charles Ruff

We are disappointed by the Supreme Court's decision not to review the D.C. Circuit's ruling that government officials do not have the right to have confidential communications with government attorneys about official business,

Carter Phillips

We are pleased to welcome these two accomplished attorneys to the firm. Bill and Jim both have impressive track records handling the increasingly complex regulatory and litigation issues that are critical to our client base. I look forward to their contributions to the continued growth and success of our energy practice.

George Hood

We're going to let our attorneys review the ruling and see what we can do to get our port built. Obviously, there are more hurdles we have to jump.

Camille Paglia

As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

Nick Fradiani

There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.

David Levine

We needed to get a credible salesman. George Foreman is one of the greatest salesmen of the century.

S. Hughes

Words of Muslims are important. It's important for people to know that Muslims think that terrorism is the epitome of injustice because it targets innocent people. People need to hear those words, and they're more credible from Muslims themselves.

John Newman

We're making a credible posture and a presence. There's no shortage of volunteers -- it's amazing, the volunteer spirit of our people.

David Victor

We have no credible emission policy at the federal level.

Dick Cheney

Your rhetoric, senator, would be a lot more credible if there was a record to back it up, ... There isn't.

Robert P. McCulloch

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.

Eric Holdeman

We've seen what happens when the federal government hasn't done much of anything in advance. If you want to be prepared for the maximum credible catastrophic event, you should be thinking seven days, not just the minimum of three days.

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

David Thewlis

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Noah Baumbach

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Torsten Wiesel

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

Valerie Simpson

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

Bryan Way

The overall kicking game, kickoffs as well as punting, helped us out tremendously. To pin them back like we did gave the defense an opportunity to put more pressure on them.

Lloyd Hulit

We played well from the start of the first game. We were eager to play and we played with passion from the start. I was very pleased with our pitching and our defense was solid.

Farris Lowery

We played well - especially in the second quarter. We just try to take what the defense will give us and our girls have done a nice job of finding the open person.

James Davis

We played well despite what they were trying to do. That's all we can ask, man. They want you to be in a man-to-man defense to run the Princeton offense with back-door screens. We had success with them with a zone defense. That really was the difference in the game.

Adam Holt

We played well defensively tonight. We also rebounded well and shot pretty good from the floor. It has been our defense and rebounding that has been getting it done for us this year.

Mike Maynard

We played well as a team, and our defense supported our pitchers.

Missy Sharer

We played nice defense in the second half. We did a good job rebounding and limited them to only one shot.

Gary Meyer

We play very good defense and we're a very good rebounding team. Those are our redeeming qualities.

Don Meyers

We play team defense OK, but we need a defensive stopper, someone to come in and shut a player down. Luke played really hard today, and did some nice things defensively. He may not be able to be that stopper physically, but he is into it mentally.

Lea Thompson

As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.

Marcus Aurelius

The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past

Roger Clemens

Roberts said. ''This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres.

Kerry Stokes

I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

Jimmy Smits

Jimmy is not a good talker, ... prepare doubly hard.

George H. W. Bush

It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground.

Steve Young

It'll come. When it does, that's when he'll be doubly dangerous.

Jill Soloway

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

Eric Noble

They needed more people even if they had stayed here (in Southern California). Every one of these announcements hits them doubly hard. Even if they hadn't lost a soul, they were going to be shorthanded.

William Cavendish

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

Walter Smith

There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

Debbie Stothard

The pattern of detaining, releasing and detaining Aung San Suu Kyi is symbolic of the one step forward, two steps back strategy the regime has perpetrated on the entire country.

David Remnick

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

Larry Gill

We plan to meet holistic needs of the entire family.

Mike Raidt

We probably shot under 20-percent for the entire second half. We got a lot of good looks, we just couldn't hit a basket.

Sam Harris

Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

Tyler James Williams

When kids tried to pick on me, I always had one line to shoot them down with: 'I make more money in a week than you'll make in your entire life.' Which probably wasn't true, but they thought it was.

Alexa Von Tobel

Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Erin Morgenstern

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

Teresa Heinz

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

David Blunkett

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

John Gunter

We had a pretty good season. It was fairly satisfying.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Gore Vidal

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Randy Mayes

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Michael Schirp

Our lawyers are looking at it. We'll see if anything can be done.

Joel Holliday

Why would I need to sue? The lawyers are saying we're in a bind. We didn't lose money.

Judith Kilpatrick

Toward the 1890s, you start seeing more lawyers who are homegrown. Still, for many years, they couldn't get training in the South.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Joseph Tate

We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to learn we had anything to do with her incarceration.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Dick Cheney

The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.

Ludwig von Mises

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

Muhammad Yunus

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Alan Keyes

Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

Alan Keyes

Rights come from God and only from God.

Charlotte Bronte

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Charles Sumner

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Edward Merriam

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Ali Babacan

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

Anne Hutchinson

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Craig Brown

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

Doug McBride

We have to have rules in place before we can do it.

John Milton

With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

Larry Jones

You used to spend a lot of your time with a ruler in your hand.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Patrick O'Brian

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

R. C. Sproul

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

Murray Rothbard

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

Kevin Kelly

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.