Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

William J. Clinton

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

Learned Hand

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Learned Hand

Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

Plutarch

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Terry Pratchett

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Pythagoras

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Josiah Royce

Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Tricia Helfer

Treating myself is more about just going out and having a great hike, or going on a long motorbike ride.

Willie Garson

String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?

Woodrow Wilson

They lived long that have lived well.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

William J. Clinton

Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.

William Gibson

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

Ric Ocasek

Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.

Juliet Marillier

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

Michael Posner

A filmmaker's worst nightmare is screening his film and there's no one in the theater to see it.

Larry Hollingworth

This weather is the nightmare we were expecting. People are now at their most vulnerable.

Sylvia Browne

Nightmares are releases.

Merrill Markoe

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

Alfred Hitchcock

Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare

Brent Spiner

Well, I think there are other shows where it's a nightmare every day to come to work.

Guy Gavriel Kay

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.