Declaring Quotations

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office.

Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Many states are declaring a public health emergency because duals cannot get their medication.

I am declaring a state of emergency because of the clear threat to the nation.

Based on our strong performance and preliminary market data for the first nine months in 1998, we now feel confident in declaring that we have significantly increased our market share in mobile phones to become the largest manufacturer of mobile phones worldwide,

If the Commission is not satisfied with the Polish authorities' response, it would have the possibility of adopting a formal decision declaring that Poland was in breach of Article 21 of the merger regulations.

Really what they're doing is declaring that their view of the video is that it is not definitive. And that's almost by definition true. If there are a few people who say, 'I don't know if I can tell what that is,' then it's not definitive.

I think they're doing whatever it takes for them to make a case for declaring impasse in hopes that they'll throw open the doors and see what happens from there. It's going to be an ugly, ugly process, and I think the game's going to get hurt terribly in the process.

Just because he's declaring now doesn't mean he has to run. Look what happened (in the recall campaign) when everybody thought he wasn't going to run and he decided on the Leno show he was.

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

The president will sign a proclamation declaring a state of emergency.

Well, obviously, we are very pleased that the court decided to preserve, or try to improve the integrity of the process, by declaring that you can't have the same lawyer representing the applicant and the agency that's reviewing it. It was the right decision.

We're declaring ourselves ready as a platform for commercial adoption.

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

What we're dealing with is small clusters of cases associated with exposure to poultry. We have a strain of influenza with the potential to pick up human genes, and we're nowhere close to declaring a pandemic.

We're not going to be able to get away with throwing $200 million or $300 million at this and declaring victory and moving on.

What in the world is preventing us from declaring an urgent crisis and dealing with it?

When prosecutors withdrew their indictment and the court approved it, Zhao Yan should have been released immediately as it was tantamount to declaring him innocent.

We contemplated declaring behind, but we also felt that they should have contemplated declaring a little earlier, given we were in the box-seat in terms of the series.

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

What has happened with underclassmen declaring for the NBA draft? It is absolutely wacky, baby!

At the Web 2.0 Conference a year ago, we gathered to discuss the implications of the Web becoming a platform. This year, we're taking it further, focusing not just on declaring the platform, but showing where the innovation is happening and what we might expect in the coming year, ... Web 2.0 attendees will be immediately plugged into the ecosystem of the new Internet and allowed to make connections vital to their business strategy.

While the Sixth Circuit stopped short of declaring all tax incentives unconstitutional, its decision in Cuno, if permitted to stand, will call into question the constitutionality of numerous credits for jobs or investments which in many instances have figured heavily in corporate relocation and expansion decisions.

The Supreme Court got it right in determining that the appeals court went too far by declaring the parental notification law in New Hampshire unconstitutional. Parents have a critical role to play in the health and well being of their children, especially when considering an abortion.

Often declaring losses on the prior year's return can lead to a larger deduction.

The government will not be out there declaring initiatives of confidence when they're not, ... We'll be very clear and very consistent in our approach. But our intention is to govern.

Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.

Our amended offer addresses all of the outstanding issues raised by Guidant's Board. We strongly encourage the Guidant Board to act in the best interests of Guidant shareholders by declaring our $73 per share offer superior to the revised $67.92 per share transaction with Johnson & Johnson.

This case raises questions about doctors' 'rush to judgment' in declaring people with brain injury permanently unconscious and about the state's ? through the courts and its agencies ? eagerness to withhold treatment and end their lives.

This is the first time that an incumbent prime minister is declaring his intention of dismantling dozens of settlements, and nothing is happening. No demonstrations and protests, no rebellion within the party, and no media uproar.

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

It was a delicate act: Celebrating debate and criticism while declaring that a key element of that debate -- whether the administration exaggerated prewar intelligence about Iraq -- is off-limits. But Cheney achieved it with matter-of-fact indignation.

It's unfortunate that Matt went on 'Oprah.' It seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found fantastically inappropriate. Of course, he was busy declaring his love for me on 'David Letterman' a month previously.

it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad.

I want to approach it from the standpoint that California does not have enough help from Washington, D.C., ... That is the only reason we ought to be considering declaring an emergency on the issue of illegal immigration in California.

The Fed really tried to throw some cold water on those who are saying the recession's over already. The optimists are declaring it over already ... I think there's a good chance they're wrong, and the Fed obviously is predicating policy on the basis that they are wrong.

They did not get a lot of energy behind their open-source initiative, ... Just declaring that something is open source does not mean it is going to be popular.

In terms of stocks, GE is the biggest problem today, as is the American automobile sector, ... You've got Ford trading at $7 a share, that's practically bankruptcy level for a company that is not in danger of declaring bankruptcy. And when GE, one of the great, major companies of the world is down, it has a big impact on the psychology.

By all means, law and order must be maintained, and this can be done by the government without declaring a state of rebellion or imposing martial law or suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.

By declaring Iran non-compliant with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as we did last Saturday, the international community sent a strong signal to Iran that commitments had to be respected,

By declaring pre-emptive bushfire emergencies, all local areas will be in the highest state of readiness and will be able to deploy firefighters, tankers and aircraft immediately.

All you have to do is declare bankruptcy and you can run away from your contract, so the retirees expect the leaders will have to do something to avoid G.M. declaring bankruptcy.

a careful balance that maintains the common understanding of marriage as between a man and a woman, while at the same time declaring that registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections and benefits as spouses.

It's a little bit premature to be declaring victory until we've had a large enough number of clinical trials and enough people treated for long periods of time to understand the risk-to-benefit ratio better.

This plays very well politically in those countries. Prepaying the IMF is declaring independence.

We don't think there will be immediate conflict between Taiwan and mainland China, but it will put increasing pressure on Taiwan against declaring independence.

It's how you should play cricket. They did the right thing declaring at tea and we set a total they can get if they play very well.

I don't think anyone around here is declaring victory. We know there's a ton of competition, particularly in the truck and S.U.V. segments, we have to deal with.

For the Fed to hike rates now would be the equivalent of a doctor prematurely declaring a patient at full health, discharging them from the hospital and then forcing them to run a mile.

The markets got a little premature declaring victory last week and the shorts rushed in to cover. Now enthusiasm has dissipated and the selling pressure is on. People are realizing that the war is going to be longer and more drawn out than anticipated.

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.