Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

We wish Pedro nothing but the best going forward both on the field and off the field, ... He pitched with every ounce of his being for the Red Sox over the course of 216 games. Some of those performances were among the most memorable in Red Sox history. Who will ever forget the 1999 All-Star game? He has earned everything that he has accomplished, including his World Series ring and his reputation as one of the greatest who ever lived.

Margaret Beckett

The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory work.

Wolfgang Bernhard

We are delighted to be supporting an important event such as the World Youth Day, ... The young people coming together in Cologne are our future. The message of tolerance, optimism and understanding among nations they are sending all over the world comes from Germany this year, in many ways a valuable sign in itself.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

Martha Stewart

Many of the candidates were as accomplished or more so than I when I started to build my business. Even so, there are some explosive personalities among the candidates and they really create a lot of tension in the conference room.

Bobby Darin

So let us build them shelves where They might fight among themselves and leave the people be who want to sing

Robert Rainy

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

Bhagavad Gita

I am silence among the secrets, and the Self-knowledge of the knowledgeable.

Ralph Rivera

Casino games such as blackjack and poker have become wildly popular among mainstream audiences and that trend is reflected on AOL Games.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Francis Jeffrey

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Herodotus

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Marianne Williamson

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

Lindy Ruff

We only had two odd-man rushes the whole night.

Peter Falk

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

John C. Calhoun

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Maya Angelou

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Madonna Ciccone

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

Cindy Sheehan

Senator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,

Mona Sutphen

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Hillary Clinton

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Linda Chavez

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Pete Rose

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Joss Stone

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

Kevin Hart

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Kelly Osbourne

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Lennox Lewis

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

Joseph Campbell

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Karl Popper

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

Kanye West

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.