Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Damon Albarn

Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.

Cynthia McKinney

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Cynthia McKinney

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

Corrine Brown

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

Cotton Mather

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Cory Doctorow

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

Clive Owen

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

Clive James

How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Albert Einstein

What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.

Albert Einstein

Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Alexander Herzen

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

Alexander McQueen

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

Alexander Pope

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Alex Haley

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

Janet Jackson

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Abraham Lincoln

I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

Ani Difranco

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

Ani Difranco

I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

Andy Kaufman

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

Andy Goldsworthy

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.