Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Jack

I went to Bali for two months and met my wife, and that's how the story started... We had a very simple beginning, selling art on the street.

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Allen Abney

The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places.

Abraham Lincoln

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Andrew Jackson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

William Makepeace Thackeray

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

Pankaj Mishra

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

Mahatma Gandhi

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Mahatma Gandhi

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Mahatma Gandhi

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

John Roberts

I will be my own man on the Supreme Court, period,

Dave Scott

He was popular and a well-liked young man here.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Dasha Zhukova

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

Meg Scheu

Street-runners have safety concerns, and crews get training to operate under special conditions.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

George Allen

I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be insured just like I'm insured.

Cofer Black

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Jonathan Ornstein

Without the trans-Pacific operations, we can operate very profitably.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

Ed Hazel

We don't operate off a script or know where this is headed.

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Warren Beatty

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Buffett

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

Warren Buffett

The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.

William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.