Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

Mr. Jones suggests in his letter that you would have reacted differently to an alleged civil rights violation, and in a thinly veiled threat, asserts that the alleged insensitivity of the administration to fundamentalist Christians will not go unnoticed by that sizable voting block,

John Conyers

should be removed or disciplined, or whether members of his staff should be disciplined for repeated instances of alleged misconduct and abuses of power.

Ali Liebegott

Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

Bruce Buck

We are almost certainly going to appeal. We believe that attending the meeting (with Cole in January) did not go over the line... we think that the sanctions are totally disproportionate to the alleged sin.

Jeffrey Kerr

PETA has no involvement with alleged ALF or ELF actions. PETA does not support terrorism. PETA does not support violence,

Kofi Annan

I am especially troubled by instances in which U.N. peacekeepers are alleged to have sexually exploited minors and other vulnerable people,

Richard Scudamore

I am sure the inquiry will wish to speak to him and anybody else who has raised similar comments. There is a great deal of speculation regarding alleged irregular payments in transfer dealings. I cannot sit here yet with irrefutable proof it doesn't happen or that it does. That's why the inquiry has been called. We don't have the power to insist Sven-Goran Eriksson sits and talks to us but having said that I would imagine he has no reason not to.

Philip Morris

Given the decision to decertify in a case also based on alleged fraudulent misrepresentations to consumers, we think it is clear that this court will decertify

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

John Corcoran

We did everything possible to save his life.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

Albert Osterhaus

Cat-to-human transmission is theoretically possible and not to be excluded.

Oliver Kahn

I am relaxed about the situation now. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Marlon Wayans

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

Kate O'Mara

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

Garry Garner

We've been producing those since at least 1969.

Randy Lascody

This time of year, these fronts are ineffective in producing a lot of rain.

Tony Robinson

There's some truth to it. We do a lot of talking but we aren't producing anything.

Damian Lewis

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Scott Davis

You're not producing them to eat; you're producing them to breed.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Rep. Taylor

She had to represent her constituents.... I think all these commissioners do the same thing.

Agnes Martin

Anything can be painted without representation.

Josh Greenbaum

But (the acquisitions) represent a strong maintenance revenue stream.

Rob Clarke

If anything were to take place then Daryl Mather can represent the client.

Mariano Rivera

I wish the time would have been different; when we didn't have to worry about Spring Training and could have been throwing already. It is what it is. It's too bad, because you always want to represent your country. I just wouldn't be ready.

Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Lupe Ontiveros

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

David Icke

When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give the world away and that is precisely what we have been doing throughout known human history. This is why the few have always controlled the masses.

David Duchovny

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Ben Vereen

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

Barney Frank

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Audrey Tautou

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

Audre Lorde

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

Audre Lorde

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.

Audre Lorde

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Aslan Maskhadov

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

David Hume

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

David Hume

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

David Hume

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

David Duchovny

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

Audre Lorde

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Antonin Artaud

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Denise Levertov

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder....

Denis Waitley

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Al Gore

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.