Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.
~By Mark Dayton ~
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
~By James Madison ~
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.
~By Julien Green ~
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.
~By Kool Moe Dee ~
And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
~By Jim Valvano ~
Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
~By Bill Shuster ~
The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
~By Hansie Cronje ~
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.
~By Joe Flanigan ~
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.
~By Rebecca Romijn ~
We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
~By Simon Le Bon ~
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
~By William Penn ~
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
~By Ann Coulter ~
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
~By Esther Williams ~
We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.
~By Jodi Rell ~
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
~By Ed Koch ~
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
~By Robert Fortune ~
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
~By Joseph Addison ~
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
~By William James ~
Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.
~By Johan Cruijff ~
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
~By Saul Alinsky ~
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 ~
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
~By Henry James ~
When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up.
~By Peter Hook ~
If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
~By Al Franken ~
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
~By George Wald ~
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
~By Robert Creeley ~
These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
~By John Harvey Kellogg ~
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
~By Olivia De Havilland ~
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
I don't want to marry again. I did that.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
~By Umberto Eco ~
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
~By Jean Rostand ~
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
~By Howard Zinn ~
I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.
~By William Kirby ~
I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
~By Olive Schreiner ~
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
~By Dick Morris ~
Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.
~By Catherine Bell ~
With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
~By Anne Campbell ~
Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.
~By Andy Partridge ~
I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.
~By Norman Granz ~
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
~By Fidel Castro ~
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
~By Larry Bird ~
The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt.
~By Sophia Bush ~
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
~By Gene Wilder ~
The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.
~By Kurt Student ~
You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.
~By Ernst Zundel ~
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
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 ~
I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.
~By Corrine Brown ~
Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
~By Dinah Shore ~
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
~By Chad Smith ~
Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
It's becoming very much like 1979 again.
~By Richard Wright ~
The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.
~By Linda Chavez ~
I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
~By Claire Danes ~
Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
~By Ed Harris ~
I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
~By Tab Hunter ~
I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.
~By Danny Elfman ~
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
~By John Selden ~
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
~By Claude Bernard ~
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
~By Thomas R. Marshall ~
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.
~By Kathleen Blanco ~
The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.
~By John Yoo ~
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
~By Omar Epps ~
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
~By Hanoi Hannah ~
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
~By J. M. Barrie ~
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.
~By Jonny Lang ~
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
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