Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scottie Somers

To succeed we must endure mental and physical pain.

Serge Gainsbourg

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

Oscar Wilde

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Edmund White

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

John Fiske

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.

Menander of

Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure), An evil is - but one we must endure

Gerald R. Ford

One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.

Geoffrey Chaucer

For profit would I all his lust endure

Robert Baer

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Leon Trotsky

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.