Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

John Owen

We expect to report an operating margin between 2 percent and 4 percent, and that should bring us to a net loss for the full year. And for full-year, we are using an assumed fuel price of $1.92 (for a gallon of jet fuel). So, basically, $1.92 in the first quarter and an average of about $2 for each of the remaining three quarters.

John Taylor

I think we ought to assume that $59.99 is going to be the place we start for game prices,

Mary McAleese

It is important that we do not complacently assume that economic success and social disparity inevitably go hand-in-hand.

Bob Jones

I'd assume he can convert it and pay some of his legal bills, and that is perfectly OK with me.

Michael Hayes

He is a proven leader, and we think he is an excellent choice to assume this important new role at Fred's,

Ron Phipps

Price is always pivotal. If a house is under priced, people sometimes assume that there is something wrong with it.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Jaime Salazar

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

Jon Porter

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Gus Van Sant

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

Jim Walsh

touches on huge and important issues of foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

David Goyer

In science fiction, historically, you're telling allegorical tales. You're shining a light back on society -- what's happening now. It's a way to talk about what's going on, but from a sideways angle.

John Cain

Im sure there was going to be another rent increase, ... Its been happening to everyone down here.

Roya Hakakian

In 1978 when the revolution was happening it was not an Islamic Revolution, and many people involved were not Islamic fundamentalists by any stretch of the imagination.

Mike McCallister

In light of what's happening today, they would understand,

Lady Gaga

I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.

Wilson Pickett

I learned a lot looking at things happening there ... wasn't too pleasant.

Jesse Eisenberg

I'm not on Page Six, because I don't have anything salacious happening in my life... unfortunately.

Justin Blalock

You can't think about that. It's all about what's happening now.

Kim Hunter

And that is still not happening at the scale or the pace we would like to see,

Michel Lu

If necessary we will make proposals to the minister or even the president.

Suranand Vejjajiva

When the prime minister sold his shares, people didn't understand it was a private matter. We were quite off-message at first.

Christopher Shays

Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,

Francis Atterbury

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Chamlong Srimuang

I don't know how many nights we will have to remain here but we will go on rallying until the prime minister resigns.

Will Ferrell

Whom does the prime minister prefer? Tinky Winkey, Dipsy, Po, or La-La?

Jens Stoltenberg

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

John Straayer

It's unusual, but he's getting publicity for his campaign.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Alex Honnold

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Commissioner Robinson

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richard P. Feynman

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Russell Crowe

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Umberto Eco

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Travis Barker

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

William J. Clinton

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

William J. Clinton

When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.

Nancy Thayer

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Milan Kundera

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Jonny Lang

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Benedict Lucchesi

He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,

Rudyard Kipling

it's always best to tell the truth.

Jay Chiat

In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

John Burdett

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

Loretta Ables

It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead.

Lauren Myracle

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

Mother Jones

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

Elaine Stritch

When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.

Randy Moss

There's no telling what you are going to see,