Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

John C. Calhoun

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

Vayalar Ravi

The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

Abraham Lincoln

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

Laurent Fabius

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Susan Kniep

We dispute that. We don't think that's the correct reading of our constitution.

Noah Feldman

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.

Lysander Spooner

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.

Lysander Spooner

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.

J. M. Roberts

The Patent and Trademark Office was correct in issuing the patent.

Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Richard Rohr

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.

Charles Francis Richter

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

Charles Francis Richter

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

Dries van Noten

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

Seung Sahn

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

William Jennings Bryan

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Jalal Talabani

We are not living in a country where a party with a two-vote majority in Parliament can rule - this is not Iraq. If the Shiites and Kurds will cooperate, there will be a majority, but this is not right, and not the correct way to rule the country.

Dirk Kempthorne

I don't think anybody would dispute that we're seeing a warming of the Earth.

Lindsay Pearce

I would never dispute that I've been given a gift by God. That's something I've been raised to believe. I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing, and I know that I can act.

Ed Skyler

We have had several major incidents since this protocol went into effect and there hasn't been any disputes over who's in charge. Everyone did their part and saved lives.

Alan McCoy

Unfortunately, we've experienced labor disputes long term. We're not looking to have a repeat of that experience." ()

Hu Jintao

We must persist in settling international disputes by peaceful means, with a view to promoting harmonious coexistence for different countries,

Jim Hunter

We know pundits are going to come up with various ways to dispute facts in every situation, ... However, we are proud to hold the No. 2 position on television.

Barclays Capital

The possibility for a non-benign solution to the dispute leaves open the risk for higher prices in the short term.

Michael Birdwell

We're hoping that it will generate some interest and support so we can go back and finish up and settle the dispute once and for all, without a doubt.

Heinz Kramer

In the second half of 2006, the big Cyprus dispute will happen.

Samuel Butler

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Dick Cheney

When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,

Alan Tudyk

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

Charlotte Bronte

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

Charles de Gaulle

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Charles Dickens

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Charles Dickens

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

Charles Stross

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.