Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

William Odom

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

Bayard Rustin

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Barack Obama

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Holly Cartner

The government's crackdown on civil society is unprecedented, even in Uzbekistan's 14-year history of repression since independence from the Soviet Union.

Ray Everett-Church

The government can't even claim that it's for national security. They're just using it to get the search engines to do their research for them in a way that compromises the civil liberties of other people.

Irving Thalberg

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

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.

Donald Trump

The economy is very sick. We're losing our jobs to China to Japan to every country. We're making horrible trade deals. We are losing jobs in this country. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs are being lost. And part of the reason is our taxes are so high in this country. I'm also cutting, you know they don't talk about that.

Donald Trump

Well the thinking is we have the highest tax rate in the world. In the entire world, we have the highest tax rate. There's gridlock in Washington because there's no leadership. So what I'm doing is a large tax cut especially for the middle class and they're gonna- we're going to have a dynamic country. We're going to have dynamic economics. And it's going to be something really special. And people are going back to work.

Donald Trump

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

Donald Trump

I felt it from within. We have tremendous discontent in the country. We have tremendous problems in the country. And I felt it early on or I wouldn't have done this. But I see tremendous discontent.

Donald Trump

Mexico is not going to build it [a wall], we're going to build it. And it's going to be a serious wall. It's not going to be a toy wall like we have right now where cars and trucks drive over it loaded up with drugs and they sell the drugs in our country and then they go back and, you know, we get the drugs, they get the cash, okay, and that's not going to happen.

Donald Trump

I talked about deporting people that are here illegally. They're here illegally. We either have a country or we don't. I talked about deporting people that are here illegally.

Donald Trump

I have a very hardline position, we have a country or we don't have a country. People that have come into our country illegally, they have to go. They have to come back into through a legal process.

Donald Trump

We are not talking about isolation. We're talking about security. We're not talking about religion. We're talking about security. Our country is out of control. People are pouring across the southern border. I will build a wall. It will be a great wall. People will not come in unless they come in legally. Drugs will not pour through that wall.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Lara Pulver

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Tim Cox

This is the first time when we can touch people when they have been devastated.

Mark Serwotka

This is not a union that is struggling. People see we are standing up for what they want and they want to join.

Dominique Moisi

This is not a triumph for Chirac. People didn't go to vote.

Bruce Babbitt

This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many people. The problem is there's too many cars.

Julie Taymor

This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.

Bill Cheney

This is simply what a recession is like. This report represents real people and real pain, especially around the holidays.

Barbara Schneeman

This is really good. People are being vaccinated.

Jaromir Jagr

This is probably the most surprising season, my season and the team's. For a lot of people around the league.

Harry Price

This is so wonderful to see all of these people who are working to preserve our history,

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Andrew Niccol

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

Andrew Niccol

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

Andrew Niccol

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

Andrew Niccol

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Amy Lowell

This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

Amy Poehler

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

Ally Carter

Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)

Allen Tate

The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins....