Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erykah Badu

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

George W. Bush

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

George W. Bush

So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

Christie Hefner

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

Jack Nicholson

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Jay Leno

Congratulations to President Obama on being reelected president of the United States. Turns out it is not all bad news for the Republicans. It seems that depression is covered by Obamacare.

Fuzzy Zoeller

That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it?" ... "or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve."

Harold Washington

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Jeanne Moreau

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

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.

Barbara Jordan

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Barbara Jordan

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Bashar al-Assad

As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

Baruch Spinoza

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted ; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

Mayer Morganroth

It would be a terrible miscarriage of justice if they're convicted.

Rocky Nichols

This is the first taste of justice that the victims have received.

Julian Mack

This is probably the worst miscarriage of justice I've seen in 34 years of practice.

Gary L. Francione

We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.

bell hooks

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Arundhati Roy

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Cobi Jones

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Blaise Pascal

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.