Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Craig Berman

It was improper to dismiss him for having consensual relationships with former students.

Robert Brusca

A point-three increase is a big increase. ( But ) to the extent the increase was due to tobacco prices, the market may be willing to forgive it, dismiss it, to put it aside.

David Raskin

These similarities can't be dismissed as mere coincidence. He was in the middle of it, just like he told you from the witness stand.

Jerry Bailey

You shouldn't dismiss the fact that the post this horse had breaking. He took the worse of it today, and still was very authoritative in winning.

Ed Skyler

Commissioner Mattingly has the mayor's full confidence. You don't dismiss a dedicated, experienced professional in a knee-jerk reaction to appease an editorial board.

Lew Wasserman

We had a hung jury, ... and instead, he used (the holdout juror's) illness as an excuse to dismiss her from the jury.

John Sheffield

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

Joe Cocker

There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Linus Torvalds

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

Maajid Nawaz

As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.

Marc Gerecht

It's entirely possible that they could pull it off in the three Sunni provinces, ... Then you'll have a test of whether the Sunnis are willing to go another round in the writing of a new constitution.

Tina Louise

It's entirely my name. To me it means joy. Nobody in any family can be hurt if anything happens to this name because it's my name only.

Heidi Carter

It's one thing to get these students to take these classes, it's another thing entirely to have them take the tests and succeed as they have. This is an important and wonderful statistic to note.

Hank Bounds

It presents an entirely new set of legal issues.

Barack Obama

There's been this argument, somehow, that we can pay for (Hurricane) Katrina entirely by (spending) cuts, across-the-board cuts,

Sam Harris

Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Charles H. Percy

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Bernard Malamud

Politics isn't in my nature.

Norman Finkelstein

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Walter Savage Landor

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.