Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonas Salk

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams

Noam Chomsky

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Colin McRae

It's a real pity we had that puncture. The fight with Dani was fantastic. But I'm not sure that we could have conquered the first place. To finish second here is for me a great result on my first outing in Germany !

Italian Proverb

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world

Guy Laliberte

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

James Lane Allen

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Joseph Campbell

Our demons are out own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

O. J. Simpson

standing up and saying I conquered this, and I am better than one mess-up.

Richard Rodriguez

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

William Cowper

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Saul Bellow

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Joseph Addison

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Pierre Corneille

Rome alone can resist Rome.

Julius Streicher

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

Kanye West

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

Paolo Sorrentino

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

Owen Wilson

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Roger Ebert

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

Wilson Mizner

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

William Greider

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

Robert G. Allen

Wealth is thoughts, not things.

William E. Gladstone

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Jacque Fresco

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

Henry George

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

James Cook

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.