Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest

Christiane Amanpour

They accused you of being in the KLA?

Richard Dicker

The proceedings must be fair and be seen to be fair, and that means ensuing that the accused can vigorously defend themselves.

Rodney Melville

credibility of the accuser is central to the case.

Brian Eno

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Charles Pickering

To accuse a white Southerner of being a racist is about the worst thing you can do, ... 60 Minutes.

Mark Ryan

What does Excel stand accused of? Honoring its contracts.

Kevin Mitnick

Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses.

Russell Kinnel

No one would accuse Lange as a closet indexer. He's done an awesome job at Capital Appreciation.

Julie Andrews

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in,

Heinrich Mann

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

Tor Naess

The reaction has been so positive, we think it is worth informing the (foreign) minister. It is very nice being the Norwegian ambassador to Canada today.

Liya Kebede

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Jermaine Jackson

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Mary E. Pearson

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Jacquie Small

No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn't know it.

Jeri Ryan

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed

Georges Bernanos

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

Mike Blakely

Some of them are not well known around here yet, like Jed & Kelley, who moved here from Tennessee,

Richard Matvichuk

That's what I'm going to try to do. I'm known as a physical, stay-at-home defenseman. I'm not going out thinking I'm going to score goals.

Mahdi Dakhlallah

who are well known for their anti-Syria stands.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Amartya Sen

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Bella Heathcote

All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Anna Howard Shaw

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Mario Balotelli

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

Hillary Clinton

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Glenn Greenwald

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Charles Barkley

My wife's married. I'm not.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Craig Finn

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

Ben Horowitz

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

Dave Pelzer

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Dustin Hoffman

I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.

Alec Baldwin

I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'

Alexander Pope

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

Donald Sutherland

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.