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.

Jaguar Wright

I just had an argument with my husband and I was so disappointed with his point of view, ... And the sad part is that a lot of people share his view, which is that music isn't about music any more. It's about image.

Jeffrey Toobin

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

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Robert G. Allen

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Darren Benitez

I had some songs in that I had wrote, you know, priceless to me.

Guy Quaden

The first risk is the price of oil.

Malcolm X

The price of freedom is death.

LaVar Arrington

You can't put a price tag on principals and values.

Ernest Moore

You can't put a price tag on a child's life.

Rachel Barnard

You can't put a price on that kind of publicity. It's huge.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

John Mellencamp

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

Malcolm Forbes

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.