We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.
~By Alfredo Stroessner ~
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
~By Graham Greene ~
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
~By Kurt Lewin ~
There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
~By Nelly Furtado ~
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
~By Helen Prejean ~
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.
~By Bob Geldof ~
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards.
~By George Grey ~
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
~By Elizabeth Hardwick ~
The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
~By Bill Joy ~
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
~By James Larkin ~
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
~By John Ruskin ~
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
~By Donald Cram ~
My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.
~By Eva Gabor ~
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
~By Bob Livingston ~
Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
~By Florence Kelley ~
You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
~By Barbara Castle ~
Men are allowed to get older and women are not.
~By Shirley Knight ~
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
~By Eyvind Johnson ~
You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.
~By Emily Carr ~
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
~By Travis Barker ~
Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
~By Thomas Campbell ~
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.
~By Mordecai Richler ~
My voice is an instrument.
~By David Coverdale ~
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
~By Germaine Greer ~
You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!
~By Josh Hartnett ~
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
~By Walter Wriston ~
The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.
~By John Astin ~
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
~By Billy Sheehan ~
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.
~By John Conyers ~
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
~By Richard Harris ~
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
~By Howard Coble ~
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
~By Fiona Apple ~
I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
~By Adam Jones ~
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
~By Norman Mailer ~
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
~By Joseph Story ~
I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!
~By Yasmine Bleeth ~
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
~By Kimi Raikkonen ~
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
~By Potter Stewart ~
There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.
~By Diane Wood ~
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
~By Paul Theroux ~
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
~By Casey Kasem ~
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
~By Buddha ~
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
~By Robert Martin ~
I've always loved men.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.
~By Trisha Goddard ~
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 think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
~By David O. Russell ~
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
~By Hugo Chavez ~
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
~By James Madison ~
But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
~By Christie Hefner ~
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
~By Shakira ~
The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.
~By Greg Norman ~
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
~By Salmon P. Chase ~
I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.
~By Sharon Gless ~
Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.
~By Maureen Reagan ~
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
~By Brian Koslow ~
I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.
~By Eva Braun ~
The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.
~By Jody Watley ~
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
~By Edward Dowden ~
More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
~By Charles Inglis ~
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
~By Eugene Field ~
We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?
~By Linda McCartney ~
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
~By Max von Sydow ~
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
~By Esther Dyson ~
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
~By Karl Malone ~
Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.
~By Joe Murray ~
This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
~By Otto Schily ~
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
~By Oscar Peterson ~
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
~By Egon Schiele ~
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
~By Joe Slovo ~
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.
~By Peter King ~
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
~By Theodore Parker ~
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.
~By Chris Chocola ~
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