Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mstislav Rostropovich

Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.

Bill Haynie

We are being left behind. The consumer's sitting there going, I feel like I live in Communist Cuba I'm forced to take what they give me.

Helen Suzman

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

Bill Maher

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

Paul Robeson

What do you mean by the Communist Party? As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Charlie Chaplin

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

Alexander Cockburn

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

Elliott Abrams

At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.

Vladimir Putin

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

Kurt Vonnegut

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

James A. Baldwin

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Shane Koyczan

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Mason Cooley

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

Kofi Annan

If the U.S. and others were to go outside the council and take military action, it would not be in conformity with the charter.

Norman Mailer

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Eric Hoffer

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone

Bennett Miller

The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see.

Barack Obama

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

William Shakespeare

All that glitters is not gold.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

John Jay

It feels empty because it was an opportunity wasted for us.

Nick Hays

We have to stuff them in ... a lot of the empty and unused offices.

Doug Holmes

We are seeing empty spaces in lots that, in the past, we didn't really have empty spaces in.

Kim Clijsters

I was feeling very weird out there today in general. I was feeling very empty out there.

Richard Harris

I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service.

David Norris

I was surprised at some of the things I saw. There were a lot more empty lots on the map.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Nick Lachey

We're planning on being married for a long, long time.

Bertrand Russell

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.

Christiane Amanpour

That was seven years ago. I have been married two years and I have a five-month-old son now.

William Shakespeare

I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge.

Steve Baker

I always tell people I'm married to my job. I've met wonderful people here who have taken me under their wing.

Delise Denham

I didn't get married to be a single parent.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I literally married him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Edward Sapir

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

Anurag Kashyap

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

John Henry Newman

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

Lord Chesterfield

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

Vanessa Marcil

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

Wayne Dyer

There are no justified resentments.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,