Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.

Scott Tucker

Of course, we probably should have left them where they were, ... But when we'd bring them home, they'd lay eggs, and next thing you know we'd have baby turtles running around. I love nature and wildlife, and it's always been a part of my family.

Bible Bible

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Earl Wilson

Announcement from the proud parents of a baby daughter. "We have skirted the issue.

Jim Abrahamson

The target has always been the mid-week road warrior that was the baby boomer mentality. Now, the market is more fragmented and people are mixing business with leisure.

Robert Rubin

The surpluses present an enormous opportunity and one that we must not squander, ... We believe that the surpluses should be reserved until Social Security is placed on sound financial footing for the next century. After 2010, the huge baby boom generation will begin retiring which will put increased pressure on Social Security and it was on that basis that we reached the conclusion that nothing should be done with these surpluses until that problem is addressed.

Britney Spears

I've always known that I was going to have a baby one day. But there's times when I get a little scared. It's mind-blowing to have a child.

Bill Gates

I used to think I wouldn't be all that interested in the baby until she was two or so and could talk, ... But I'm totally into it now. She's just started to say 'ba-ba' and have a personality.

Ella Wilcox

Somebody's sorrow is making me weep:I know not her name, but I echo her cry,For the dearly bought baby she longed so to keep,The baby that rode to its long-lasting sleepIn the little white hearse that went rumbling by.

Dan Dakich

The thing about being here, is if kids fight you, and they all fight you to start with, but if kids fight you, then it's difficult. I can always tell when a kid has really bought into what we're all doing, and when they do that, they become special.

Joe Coleman

I've never called for an emergency but I bought one for myself. It's not something that's physical condition related.

Jeff Capel

I've never bought into the theory of you have to have a ton of experience to get it done.

Margaret Atwood

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

Casper Dien

I've already bought a script - a love story - that I plan to produce.

Colby Rasmus

I wanted to get something that was a little nicer, but he brought me back down to earth. But with the money, I bought him a truck.

John Adams

The old boys are really looking forward to this. Some of them have gone out and bought new berets or blazers just for the occasion, so they'll look their best.

Kevin Logsdon

After Christmas, the kids bought into the fact that defense will keep you in games.

Ye Ling

Some people come in to buy pieces for themselves, but a lot of our items are bought as gifts.

Stephen Kinzer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.

Jack Randorff

If we have echoes, those echoes step on top of the spoken word, and then you can't understand it. And if you can't understand the words here, there's no reason for a convention.

Fiona Apple

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath,

Pythagoras

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

Lewis Black

I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.

Lord Byron

I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

John Cage

Every something is an echo of nothing

Judd Gregg

There's been a working majority for disregarding fiscal discipline, ... But so far, it's been a very small echo chamber.

Charles Dickens

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Turkish Proverb

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Anthony Trollope

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Anne Sexton

sorrow is easier than guilt.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Amelia Barr

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Alfred Adler

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Amin Maalouf

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

William Shakespeare

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

bell hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

bell hooks

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.