Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

C. S. Lewis

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

C. S. Lewis

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

Calvin Coolidge

It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.

Calvin Coolidge

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Ed Miliband

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Shaw Wu

We all touch Windows at work or at school, whether we like it or not.

Alexandra Adornetto

At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!

Peter Uihlein

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

Seth Rogen

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

Terry Pratchett

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

E. M. Forster

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Don DeLillo

Evil is movement towards void.

Don McLean

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

Diogenes

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

Chuck Palahniuk

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Christopher Moore

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.