Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

Bill Schneider

His whole argument is 'Vote for me, and this is how I'm going to do it. I'm going to beat Bush, and here's how.' That's his whole campaign.

William Hazlitt

There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law.

William Shakespeare

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Jeff Mikulina

Our argument is all about getting an honest lay of the land so the decision makers can make the most informed decision.

Michael Klawitter

Clearly you can speculate that 4.75 percent is not the end of Federal Reserve tightening and there is a good argument now that they go to five percent. People don't want to be dollar short at the moment.

Willie Mays

If people want to say Barry is No. 1, they won't get an argument from me. As long as I get to be No. 2.

Jeffrey Toobin

I have never seen a case that was more clearly won on a closing argument,

Joseph Biden

I'm sure the argument will be why are we nit-picking, but what I want to do at a minimum in the debate is lay out what I understand what the president's committing to do,

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Brendan Fay

What we will maybe remember most as representative of the cardinal's stance toward our community is the closed doors of the cathedral. And that's sad in some way.

Gareth Williams

There is a flaw in the system that needs to be closed in the future.

Ed Bailey

We may have actually closed it early than it needed to be, but we picked a date that we knew would not be interrupted. We planned events all the way through to the end with a large plan for the last run up to the closing.

Larry Wachtel

The Microsoft delay has hurt the Nasdaq and will reverberate throughout all of technology. That will be today's big headline. We closed ragged yesterday, so we're going to have a tired market to start.

Lorna Ho

The district is in a situation now were after having closed several schools where we can't offer any more money than we have already. However, we do feel that employees have a right to express their opinion in front of the board.

Toledo Blade

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

Pranab Mukherjee

The door for discussions is still open. Only you can say whether it (possibilities of a grand alliance) is a closed chapter.

Gerald Johnson

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

William Makepeace Thackeray

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

Pankaj Mishra

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

Mahatma Gandhi

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Mahatma Gandhi

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

Mahatma Gandhi

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Eric Davis

We've got to think about everything possible that there is to think about. We have got to turn over every stone, and look into the future to find out what's waiting for us. What can physics do ... where should physics be going?

Tom Lemming

I think Urban Meyer has a future Heisman Trophy candidate, a guy who's going to lead them to a national championship.

Craig Patrick

He wasn't playing like he was two years ago, and I didn't see us re-signing him. This was a good opportunity to get a player for the future and someone who can do the job defensively this year and possibly beyond.

Michael Walker

He had a reputation as a very severe disciplinarian, but he hasn't lived up to this. He has been listening a lot and thinking about the future of the Church. It has been a good start.

Rafael Benitez

He is a good player and a nice lad, but only he can talk about his future because I only prefer to talk about our own future,

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Cai Wu

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have

Karan Johar

It's a look at modern marriages, the reasons why people get married.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Carmen Electra

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

Kate Millett

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

Cory Doctorow

Like all security, privacy is hard.

Rosie Perez

You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

Marie Dressler

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

Lisa Kudrow

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

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

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Cade Bernsen

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

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

David Healy

I would say that's the best-ever result we've had,

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Mr Bush

Ahmadi-Nejad is a result of all this appeasement,

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Hariadi Wibisono

The test result showed positive, but we're still waiting for confirmation from Hong Kong.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.