Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Colton

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Gore Vidal

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We do it mainly to stop a government that betrays people, that steals from its people under the guise of democracy.

David Garrow

I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.

Bryan Fuller

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Richard Dicker

This reluctance to press Nigeria to hand over Taylor fosters a double standard that betrays the people of Sierra Leone,

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

Robert Murray

What I look at is, the way the town makes revenue in the guise of protecting environment, ... It sounds like a money-making machine for them ... They're thinking green, as in money.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Ted Kempf

There was no real news out there. This was mainly technical selling.

Liu Xiaoming

Some will be used mainly for business, and others will be for living.

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Pattie Boyd

I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all.

Mike May

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Jonathan Coe

Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Mike Massucci

We got some steals and some baskets in transition.

Sherill Baker

We just tried to be the aggressor. We were trying to get some steals to set up our scoring.

Benjamin Franklin

He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

Jimmy Kennedy

We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Jessica Raine

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.

Rick Peckinpaugh

They don't stop cheering. It can get very loud.

Joe Torre

They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.

Chuck Wagner

It's time to put a stop to their (win) streak.

Frank Hargrove

It's not the speeding, it's the sudden stopping that's the thing.

Stan Domin

I told her to stop trying so hard, and to just relax.