Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

M. F. K. Fisher

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Jim Shaw

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

Tibor Kalman

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

George Seaton

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

Huston Smith

All -isms end up in schisms.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Lou Pucci

He's just looking for who he is. Through that, I think he ends up kind of finding that there is no answer. And that he has to learn through his own experiences that there is no one thing that is going to help him or going to fix him.

Jeremy Crabtree

He's gonna be something special. He's gotten dramatically better throughout his senior season. If he ends up at Miami, he's one of those guys who could play pretty quickly.

Chris Morris

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

Samantha Harvey

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.

Justin Gray

I want to win so bad. Sometimes it ends up with me trying to force shots and trying to make something happen for us as a team. I feel like if I won't do it, nobody else will.

Jon Bon Jovi

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

William Ellery Channing

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

Sargent Shriver

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.

Virgil

O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!