Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmmm, boy.

Kamala Harris

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

J. Taylor

Today, the buyer's got 10 choices when he goes out there.

Johnny Flowers

Without this surgery, he can't hear. This is his last option. There is no other choice but for him to have this.

Ron Hill

You have more choices on defensive linemen for the 3-4, ... There's such a premium on 6-5, 285-pound defensive ends and defensive tackles. It's hard to find those guys. You don't have to find big, big guys in that defense because it's all movement. There's more movement than toe-to-toe stuff. You can be more flexible with their movement.

Tom Daschle

The president told me about it, and I agree, ... It's unfortunate, but there's no choice. Some people just can't resist talking.

Peter Laviolette

When Don and I talked, Chris' name popped up immediately. Not only because of how well he has played with Detroit this season, but because of the way he has represented USA Hockey... it made the choice easy.

Ed Goren

Thom's passion and enthusiasm for college football, combined with his big-game voice, made him the perfect choice. I am positive that college football fans from coast to coast will enjoy listening to him next January.

David Baker

We have been left with no other choice.

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Eric Fehrnstrom

If Congress and the President impose new requirements on the project, we'll follow the procedures and guidelines set out in the law.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Gore Vidal

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Jacques Diouf

In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms.

Jack White

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Hanna Rosin

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

Gloria Steinem

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.