Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hofstadter

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richelle Mead

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Ronda Rousey

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

Romeo Dallaire

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Robert Rauschenberg

I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking.

Robert Plant

I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.

Robert Ley

We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind - the Jew has got to be exterminated!

Sargent Shriver

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Bobby Perry

I think somebody sniped me from up in the rafters. No, I was exhausted and I just tripped over my feet.

Robert Jordan

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Rick Carlisle

Part of the problem was that Jermaine was sick (Monday) and he was really exhausted in the first half. I know his physical situation contributed to some of his struggles. We just didn't have the luxury of sitting him much tonight.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Troy Brown

That last five, six minutes of the game, we just figured they were exhausted and that's why they didn't go no-huddle. We saw they couldn't run the two-minute offense, and the only reason they didn't, we thought, was because they were exhausted.

Muhammad Ali

What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.

Jim Robertson

It seems like the lawyers are trying to get us to do their work. I don't know if they have exhausted every other source to get that information.

Kim Butler

It's all mental. We're exhausted but you want to be out to be out there and you want to get the job done. We're going places; we're going nowhere but up.

Elena Dementieva

It was really tough. I'm exhausted but ever so happy.