Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Robert McCann

This is a solid deal for us at Merrill Lynch , and we are confident about the long-term benefits. We will definitely consider other acquisitions like this when they become available.

Ken Schrader

You've just got to be confident or you wouldn't be here at this level.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Richard LeVine

You have to have a feel for what's really going to work in the long run, what the issues are that may seem controversial in the short run, ... If you're pretty confident that you've thought it through, you'll go ahead. But if there's a lot of controversy and you actually listen to the opposition, sometimes you decide they're right.

Brian Mason

We were confident that we were going to win. We knew what we had to do in order to get the job done.

Ali Dabagh

We were confident before, but now we are totally confident.

Madeline Albright

role as the leading upholder of democracy and law.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Robert Broadfoot

Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy?

Dick Cheney

We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.

Adolf Hitler

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Alexis de Tocqueville

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Cullen Hightower

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Larry Sabato

As far as others in his party are concerned, Simmons' district is highly competitive and in a strong Democratic year, it could easily be lost. ... These favors are done for Simmons simply to save the seat.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Jalal Talabani

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

Ron Gidwitz

I've never heard of internships that pay $50,000 or $60,000. These internships are simply a way to reward those who pay their dues to Democratic campaigns.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

Jeremy Corbyn

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

Douglas Brinkley

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

Walid Jumblatt

independent Lebanon, a democratic Lebanon, with a good relationship with Syria.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Daniel Day-Lewis

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Patricia McConnell

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

Atharva Veda

The Saint has shown me the Path of God; slave Nanak has implanted devotional worship and the Praise of the Lord.

Bob Djurdjevic

The way I would characterize what I saw today is, they're on a slow path of improvement. It's not a sprint.

Demi Lovato

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

Brie Larson

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

Antonio Porchia

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies unleashed ISIS, spread terrorism and put Iran on a path to nuclear weapons.

Story Musgrave

Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

Swami Vivekananda

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

Michael Bloomberg

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Adolf Hitler

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

Aesop

Pride goes before destruction.

Anthony Perkins

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

David Lloyd

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

Confucius

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

Jane Jacobs

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

Edgar Mitchell

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

Irving Babbitt

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Rebecca West

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Woodrow Wilson

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

Vladimir Lenin

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Kwame Nkrumah

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.