Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Brennan

It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

William Jennings Bryan

Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

Woodrow Wilson

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

William Shakespeare

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Shatner

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

William McKinley

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.

William James

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

William Friedkin

There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

Whitney Cummings

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

Ken Hill

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Chris Chute

keeps all doors open as long as possible until the real opportunities start to shape themselves.

Terry Edwards

Having as much math as possible leaves doors open for the future.

Tim Walsh

His parents always opened their doors to us.

John Trudell

Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.

Jerome Meyer

To get 3,000 students through two doors in 15 minutes is an impossibility, ... The University can figure out that you can open more doors. It doesn't take much to do it.

Jody Conradt

I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.

Sabeer Bhatia

I was always inquisitive as a child, ... I always knocked on doors to find out what could be possible.

Forest Whitaker

Hopefully this film is going to open the doors for a lot more films like it to be made.

Wendell Berry

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Otis Redding

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

James M. Barrie

I do loathe explanations.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Robert Fulghum

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

Sammy Hagar

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.