Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Rafael Medoff

Some entertainers simply don't know much about history. The fact is that there were no Jews in Hitler's hierarchy, the policies of America and Israel are not similar to those of Hitler, and African-American conservatives are not comparable to Nazis.

Brad Dean

Some say we're blue-collar, middle-class America and do we want to be high-end? Others say we are high-end and can still attract middle-class America.

Ringo Starr

So this is America. They must be out of their minds." -Ringo Starr circa 1964, arriving in America for the first time.

Ringo Starr

So this is America. They must be out of their minds."" -Ringo Starr circa 1964, arriving in America for the first time.

Dirk Kempthorne

So these wonderful troops are going to experience the hospitality of America while these troops are going to help America,

Mario Testino

South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Alexander Dubcek

Socialism with a human face.

Susan Sontag

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Wandy Rodriguez

He told me that I ran my finger over my mouth. That is what he said I was doing. I never touched my mouth while I was on the mound. I touched my face because I was sweating.

John Broughton

He's the kind of kid I can get in his face and always get more out of him because he responds. He wants to get better. Friday night I didn't have to get on him. He was a self-starter.

Joe Girardi

He's the kind of guy you hate to look in the face and say you're going to skip him, with how hard he works and the things that he does to prepare himself. You hate to do it. We weren't able to predict the rain.

Derek Jeter

He's always tough. It seems like his knuckleball gets tougher every time we face him.

Billy Joel

But I don't want some pretty face To tell me pretty lies All I want is someone to believe.

Butch Harmon

The thing I like is he's open-minded. He works hard to get better at the things he's not good at. Other than putting there's nothing impressive about his game, but he does nothing badly.

Mick Jagger

The thing about the NFL is they run a good show. Occasionally they make a mistake but they have been quick to rectify it.

James Bay

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

Mark Tauscher

The thing I've noticed is that he's just even-keeled, ... To be a good offensive lineman in this league, you have to be that way. His personality is low key, but he's very confident.

Randy Edsall

I've never been in this situation before, ... But hopefully the kids that get the opportunity to get in and play will do a good job.

Pokey Reese

I've never done anything like that before. The game's probably going to be pretty good after all the stuff they did in there. It's going to be so real.

Mike Rumbolz

I've made a living from the industry since I was 14 years old. It's been very good to me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've met with the president several times in the past. We've worked together, and we have a good working relationship, ... ... We would have appreciated it if he had done his fundraising after Nov. 8.

Lee Freedman

I've always suspected he had good staying potential.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Alexander Hamilton

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

Alexander Hamilton

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

Alexander Hamilton

But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.

Alexander Hamilton

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

Alexander Hamilton

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

Alexander Hamilton

Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Duke Ramey

This has been the greatest waste of human resources I've ever seen.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

Ralph Regula

You are embarking on the greatest marathon of your career,

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure. People do, when you do some of the stuff that happened to me.

Mike Mastroianni

Yeah, but a lot of work went into this and this hasn't happened here in a while.

Clay Condit

Yeah, and this just happened to be the 666th. This was the number that was given.

Jim Hodges

There is a synchronicity: you start thinking about something and all of a sudden it's everywhere. It happened to me with the mirrors.

Frank Davis

This would not have happened if there were gates.

Fred Siegel

The question is, what happened between 10 o'clock this morning and 12:30? The statesmanlike option was there last night.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.