Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Harry S Truman

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Immanuel Kant

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

J. K. Rowling

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Ivan Pavlov

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

H. L. Mencken

I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Kyle Shewfelt

The main objective for us was to win gold for the team and this was accomplished on Thursday. Everything else is an extra.

Bible Bible

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

Bible Bible

And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

John Dryden

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Maynard Keynes

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Lothrop Motley

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.