Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Lindsey Graham

The transportation and the energy bill would have been a good place to go back and revisit for some of the spending that occurred there.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Dick Morris

Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai? It sure looks like it.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

John Bradley

That's hard starting your first game flying. You've got all of the distractions, and a lot of rookies haven't had a chance to fly out to a game and experience something like that. This is the time the veterans are going to have to step up, especially the first away game.

Chip Ambres

You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.

Timmy Bailey

You take it one day at a time (and) you thank God for what you have that day. Now I have a chance to do something I love.

Joe Glenn

You take a chance on hoping that the kids will practice fundamentals in tackling.

John Gibbons

You're never satisfied of course. But I look at the big picture, some of the things that have happened, things that might have happened, have a chance to happen and I feel good.

Tom Glavine

You're looking at a game of more and more power pitchers, and quite honestly, you got to figure those guys are more susceptible to getting hurt. It'll be interesting to see how many of those guys are able to pitch long enough to even come close to having a chance to do it.

John Calvert

you're just a collection of particles that have come together by chance and by natural selection.

Alando Tucker

You never know what's going to happen in the Big Ten. We have to close out as strong as we can. There's still a possibility for us to get a Big Ten championship, depending on how things go. We just have to do everything we can to put ourselves in position to hopefully have a chance to win.

Mike Shula

You really don't see your family from Sunday to Thursday, so this gives us a chance to spend some time together,

Laura Riding

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Anne Heche

You know, so many things get redone -- music gets remade, Shakespeare gets remade,

Herman Edwards

You can see he really studies the game. He doesn't just walk out there and play. He waits for his opportunity to make the play and when you think he's not going to make the play, that's when he gets you.

Joe Girardi

I want to make sure he is ready, that he's where he needs to be when he gets there so he doesn't get hurt.

Ian Schafer

Once in a while you'll get something like the Wedding Crashers trailer. It gets more people to see the trailer and interact with it in a way they've never been able to before.

Toni Harris

It's not always easy. But once you have a system in place, it gets easier. The thing that works for me is to know their schedules.

Patrick O'Neill

It's not about smoking. It's about who gets to regulate it.

Jessie Evans

It's unfortunate that officiating gets intimidated a little bit.

Wally Szczerbiak

Doesn't matter who gets the shot in the fourth.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Aidan White

No. That is not what I heard him say.

Rumi

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.

Thuy Trang

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

Soulja Boy

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

Thomas Hobbes

The reputation of power IS power.

Thomas Hobbes

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.