Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

Akhil Sharma

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

Edward Hoagland

Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.

Ben Stiller

My own parents were touchy-feely.

Ben Stiller

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Arthur Rimbaud

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Arna Bontemps

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Dee Snider

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

Kurt Vonnegut

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Earl Warren

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Richard Shelby

It is overreaching, bureaucratic nonsense like this that makes people distrust and resent government,

Tom Daschle

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

Amelia Barr

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Juliana Hatfield

You can feel that in the music, just the unease and the distrust of the things that satisfy people, and make people feel good.

Daniel Greene

I do not enjoy the distrust on our work and so much questioning,

Shereen El Feki

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.

David Menlow

There is a vein of distrust in the marketplace for many big deals. They are viewed not as a safe haven, but a financial bailout for the issuers and the shareholders of the parent company.

Dan Hall

I've got to confess, I've always had this distrust for the whole industry. Maybe it's horror stories about people with garages full of Amway products.

Andrea Riseborough

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.