Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Chris Nelson

a terrifying prospect to serious foreign policy players.

George H. W. Bush

the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in the modern history of our nation.

Jerry Lewis

This is a national security issue; this is a national security bill. It's important to protect our ports from this kind of foreign involvement.

Mark Twain

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

Norihiro Fujito

It is understandable that foreigners want to take profits for now.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Colin Lundgren

Foreign investors will still get a lot of yield comparatively in the U.S., so we could see them buying.

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

Edward Gibbon

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

Edward Gibbon

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind....

Edward Gibbon

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

Edward Gibbon

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.

Edward Gibbon

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

Edith Sitwell

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Larry Babits

The more primitive weapons teach what soldiers are supposed to do with the modern weapon.

Chris Carter

are out of step with modern conservation approaches.

Neil Strauss

The modern player is totally under the radar.

Jose Andres Puerta

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bogan Durr

They need to put the receptacles back in until the university is ready to back up the policy with some enforcement.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Donald Trump

I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.

Donald Trump

The media needs to begin demanding to hear Hillary Clinton's answer on how her policies will affect Americans and their security.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Alec Baldwin

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Ally Condie

I love. The most reckless thing of all.

Rumi

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.

Richard Hammond

Im not reckless. I was never reckless.

James Dickey

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Patrick Rothfuss

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Jolene Blalock

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

Lewis Carroll

The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.