Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

C. S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Michael Ignatieff

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

Jim Tocco

I've seen him in tons of parks and he does the same thing every time, but never fails to make me laugh. He's a versatile funny man.

Martin L. Gross

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

A.J. Chilson

When a number fails to identify a football player try the name on the back of his uniform.

David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Greg Moore

This is a very peculiar year for flu.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Thomas Ligotti

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Gertrude Stein

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

Helen Vendler

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.