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My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected. (Quote by - Paul Lynde)

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)

The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administratio s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not. (Quote by - Senator John Kerry)

Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this thought has been impressed and engraved upon our minds that none of the brethren can be injured, despised, rejected, abused, or in any way offended by us, without [our] injuring, despising, and abusing Christ by the wrongs we do; that we cannot disagree with our brethren without at the same time disagreeing with Christ; that we cannot love Christ without loving Him in the brethren; that we ought to take the same care of our brethren's bodies as we take of our own; for they are members of our body; and that, as no part of our body is touched by any feeling of pain which is not spread among all the rest, so we ought not to allow a brother to be affected by any evil, without being touched with compassion for him. (Quote by - John Calvin)

Wearing a police badge gives an officer tremendous power and tremendous responsibility. Twice in recent months, two Chicago police officers have abused that power and shirked their responsibility. Richard Devine)

I've been chased, ... I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment. (Quote by - Howie Mandel)

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused. (Quote by - Motsoko Pheko)

I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons. (Quote by- Sylvester Stallone)

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still . (Quote by -John Wayne)

Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused. (Quote by - Linda Lingle)

Sgt. Maj. McKinney was a leader who abused his power. (Quote by - Annemarie Conroy)

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything. (Quote by - Andy Dick)

They'd work you until midnight and get you back at seven in the morning. The actors were taking a terrible licking physically. Generally, as the case with any union, you form it because people are abused. - regarding the formation of the Screen Actors Gui. (Quote by -Charles Lane)

The prosecution abused its power and violated its duty to go into the grand jury room and present the evidence fairly and accurately. (Quote by - Robert Sanger)

The dogs are starved to make them mean. They are fed gunpowder and hot pepper before a fight, and they are regularly abused. Losing dogs are often doused in gasoline and burned or tied to weights and drowned. (Quote by - Martin Mersereau)

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. (Quote by - Bruce Nauman)

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)

Abused patience turns to fury. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

We've got kids who have problems in school, kids who've been abused, some kids that this is their last resort before going into foster care. Sometimes our talks in circle-ups (around campfires) are so heart-touching that we all cry. (Quote by - Anne Angelelli)

The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused. (Quote by - Benjamin Constant)

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do. (Quote by - Tim Roth)

If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst. (Quote by - Emerson)

Food is abused by so many people. It just scares me a little to see something like this celebrated. (Quote by - D. Milton Stokes)

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