Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Lindsey Graham

The transportation and the energy bill would have been a good place to go back and revisit for some of the spending that occurred there.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Dick Morris

Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai? It sure looks like it.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Tom Stoppard

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.

Martin Luther

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Mason Cooley

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Adolfo Cambiaso

Memo is unbelievable, the way he is fit. I don't think I'll be playing that long, for sure. I hope I quit before that. I'll be around polo and horses and things like that, but not playing.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Conrad Aiken

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

Isaiah Berlin

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

Mike Lowry

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

Kellan Lutz

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

Louise Bourgeois

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

Kimberly Elise

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

Julia Quinn

And what renders him so unmarriageable?” Eloise asked. Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should set her cap for Michael. “Well?” Eloise prodded. “He could never remain faithful to one woman,” Fran-cesca said, “and I doubt you‟d be willing to put up with infidelities.” “No,” Eloise murmured, “not unless he‟d be willing to put up with severe bodily injury.

Katherine Mansfield

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

Kate Chopin

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.