Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Anna Torv

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

Andrew Niccol

Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

Alex Rodriguez

I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

Alec Issigonis

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

Rose Byrne

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Peter Temple

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

Terence Stamp

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

Katherine Dunham

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

Aidan Gillen

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Pope Francis

For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.

Pope Francis

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

Peter Medawar

We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.

Peter Singer

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.