Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cornyn

Throughout his years on the nation's high court, Chief Justice Rehnquist stood as a beacon of judicial restraint and reverence for the Constitution and the institution of the Supreme Court. I believe Judge Roberts will follow the lead of his mentor, and guide our nation's highest court by those same principles and devotion to the rule of law for all,

Thomas Menino

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

Bill Twardy

This is the first time we've won the Beacon tournament. There's always a lot of good competition, a great field (16 schools). In 9 of 15 weight classes we placed in the top four. We have kids who can place, we have a lot of depth, and the entire team racks up points. I'm very pleased, this is the best team we've had since 1998, and possibly the best ever.

Tom Benson

Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.

Rick Clark

A steeple is a beacon for the community,

Steve Wozniak

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

Paul Gourley

Israel is a beacon of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.

Jim Widman

What that would do is discourage traffic from cutting through Beacon Woods, which was a major concern of the residents.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles Manson

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

Michael Barrett

That tells you this is a good, reasonable bill.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Jim O'Connor

You want a little tension between supply and demand. I think you want a reasonable wait list.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.