I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.
~By Jim Wallis ~
I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.
~By Tracey Gold ~
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
~By Kate Smith ~
Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
~By Isaac Watts ~
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
~By Vernon Jordan ~
No ground gained was ever relinquished.
~By Matthew B. Ridgway ~
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
~By Patti Davis ~
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
~By Jacques Verges ~
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.
~By George Pataki ~
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
~By Richard Rolle ~
Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
~By Alan Dundes ~
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
~By Edward Hopper ~
Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
~By Garth Ennis ~
Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
~By Bob Hawke ~
Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
~By Stephen Harper ~
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
~By Virgil ~
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
~By Renee Fleming ~
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
~By John Bates Clark ~
We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.
~By Sarah Palin ~
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
~By Richard Armitage ~
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.
~By Jason Biggs ~
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
~By John McEnroe ~
I am against the death penalty.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
~By Melissa Leo ~
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.
~By Juan Marichal ~
If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
~By Imelda Staunton ~
No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
~By Robertson Davies ~
It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.
~By Alison Moyet ~
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.
~By Jonah Lomu ~
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
I feel like I need to sing again.
~By Peter Yarrow ~
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
~By Richard Adams ~
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
~By Robert Orben ~
Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~By Milton Friedman ~
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.
~By David Tudor ~
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
~By Avi Arad ~
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
~By Paul Watzlawick ~
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.
~By Stockwell Day ~
Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.
~By Barack Obama ~
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it.
~By Jerry Moss ~
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
~By Oliver Herford ~
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
~By Octavio Paz ~
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
~By William Bennett ~
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
~By Melinda Gates ~
The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.
~By Julian Lincoln Simon ~
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.
~By William Kempe ~
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
~By Bill Toomey ~
For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
~By Jon Corzine ~
Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.
~By Robert Stack ~
I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.
~By Tito Jackson ~
I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
~By Horst Koehler ~
I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.
~By Stefan Edberg ~
Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow.
~By Pat Weaver ~
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.
~By Donna Mills ~
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
~By Bill Walsh ~
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
~By Walt Whitman ~
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
~By Marc Newson ~
I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
~By Earl Browder ~
Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
~By Peter Jennings ~
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
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