Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Allan Bloom

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Alison Gopnik

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

Alison Lurie

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Anthony Jeselnik

I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt be the bad guy in the joke; he couldnt upset people, really.

Ann Hood

In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or – perhaps most importantly – ourselves.

Ann Brashares

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Ann Brashares

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

Ann Brashares

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Todd Pridy

I'm happy that we got another quality pitching performance. The offense came alive and there's a 0 in the error column. If we don't get in our own way this team has a chance to do good things. Today was an example of them putting all three facets together and we came out with a good result.

Laura Hillenbrand

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

Seamus Heaney

I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it.

David Horowitz

If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a "prone position" on the night of his famous encounter with Los Angeles police, 58 people would be alive today, $16 billion would be circulating in the economy and four dedicated LAPD officers who were working to the book that night would not have been forced to endure two trials (the first had acquitted them) and had their careers destroyed to appease the liberal conscience. But liberals had to make their point.

Kwame Kilpatrick

I know him. I know his father. There isn't anybody alive who hasn't done something they've regretted. He's a good man.

Rick McGee

I know he was fighting to stay alive for his family because his family was his No. 1 priority.

Aaron Neville

I haven't heard from a lot of my friends and don't know if they are alive or dead, ... When they drain the city there will be a lot of bodies.

John Williams

I point to the outcome, the fact that we have a student who is alive and is doing better.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Courteney Cox

I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.

Clint Eastwood

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

Douglas Coupland

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Donald Trump

We need a toughness. We need strength. We're not respected, as a nation anymore. We don't have that level of respect that we need. And if we don't get it back fast, we're just going to go weaker, weaker and just disintegrate.

Donald Trump

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

Adolf Hitler

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

Anna Torv

I want somebody who's gonna need me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.