Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Du Fu

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ...After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.

Douglas Hurd

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Douglas Coupland

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

Donald Trump

There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want.

Donald Trump

What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.

Donald Trump

This country right now owes $19 trillion. And they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess.

Donald Trump

I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don't win anymore.

Donald Trump

President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Alexander Dubcek

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

Khloe Kardashian

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.

Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

E. M. Forster

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

E. M. Forster

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

E. M. Forster

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

E. M. Forster

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Paul Desmond

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Paul Desmond

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Joan Baez

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.