Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roseanne Barr

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

Zach Braff

Without me, Scrubs would be worse than the holocaust. But with me in it, it's turned into the lolocaust.

Ellen Goodman

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

Chris Abani

The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

Benazir Bhutto

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

Alan King

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

Benjamin Netanyahu

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

Bob Balaban

Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.

Dennis Prager

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Milan Kundera

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Mahatma Gandhi

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

John Burness

Joe wanted to reach out to students who felt they'd like support and provide answers for anything they felt they needed to know.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Yates

It answers the question; we feel the engine program is pretty solid, ... There is a long list of things that make up a good race team, and when you can eliminate one of those variables, it's nice.

Peter Young

We support the general concept of a World Cup but like everything else with Twenty20, there are more questions than answers and we'd like a bit more time to look at everything.

Tom Clark

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.

Alex Jones

The answer to 1984 is 1776.

Verne Troyer

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

Robin Wright

Everyone has the answers.