Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Ariel Sharon

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Booker T. Washington

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Blaise Pascal

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Martin Eggleston

The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Eric Stoltz

Roger visited us and got to know and spend time with Nestor before he died. That's an important part of the process of portraiture. And, of course, we have thousands of photos.

Martin Heidegger

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Lev Grossman

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Keira Knightley

I can't actually walk, but I can stand rather well.

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.