Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Bertrand Russell

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Eric Frankel

We have more programming in our warehouse than we can monetize on traditional TV,

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

William Shakespeare

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

Baz Luhrmann

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

Patricia Schroeder

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Steven Pinker

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

Evan Bayh

We have to learn from these mistakes so that we do better to minimize the number of casualties to win this thing, ... It's the lack of any introspection that I find to be very troubling.

Tipu Munshi

Most of the casualties occurred as factory gates were locked (from the outside).

Bryan Whitman

we have no indications that the allegations of civilian casualties is accurate.

Connie Maina

Whenever there is a drought, the first casualties are usually hippos who live in the water.

Chandra Fernando

There are casualties but the fate of the commander is not known yet. He was critically wounded.

Bob Ainsworth

Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.

Haley Barbour

There is incredible evidence that the casualties are more than 50, maybe 80, ... and it seems likely that that's not the end of it. It may be higher, maybe substantially.

Doris Goodwin

I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.