Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Bernie Sanders

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

Gore Vidal

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

Robert Davies

Sometimes, it's hard to tell people what to do.

Katherine Heath

Pulling the hoses is pretty tough. It's pretty hard if you're not used to this type of work.

F. Schumacher

Performances like that of that weekend are not our objective. We have to work hard and prove that we are competitive in all conditions, and not only in specific ones.

Peri Gilpin

The script made me cry, ... Parts of it were so hard to read, yet other parts were uplifting.

Monique Roffey

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

LeAnn Rimes

I've worked very hard for everything I have and nothing has come easy.

Matthew Nable

I've worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

John Wooden

Be at your best when your best is needed.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Ruth Ozeki

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Jon Darbyshire

In the past, it was something they needed to address, but they didn't have to.

Jodi Picoult

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

For all of my life I have needed more.

Natalie Rule

It serves quite a big need to put people in the right location, people needed to rebuild.

Matt Schmelzer

A lot of wins. Every time we needed a basket, she scored a basket.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Joy Chandler

People don't seem distracted, but I sure have seen a lot of really big smiles, way more than is usual for a snowy Monday.

Mark Schneider

People don't season enough. You season the raw product so it will permeate into the meat.

Wayne Gandy

People don't really understand that a lot of those people are not going back to New Orleans. You don't rebuild ghettos.

Mike Davidson

People do not understand how powerful that water is.

Doug Flynn

People do feel better about investing. But they are still very skeptical about the recovery and their expectations are way down.

Peter Thiel

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

David Green

People are walking all over town just going crazy. I've never seen it like this before.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

George Carlin

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

H. L. Mencken

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Lars Trier

I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.

Paul Tournier

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

Lord Acton

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Lucian

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.