Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Tony Abbott

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

Tony Abbott

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

Tony Abbott

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

Tony Abbott

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

Tony Abbott

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Tony Blair

Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education, and education.

Tony Blair

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Tony Blair

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Chuck Noll

Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help create that tide. Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Chuck Pagano

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

Alfred de Vigny

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

Amy Smart

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Amy Sedaris

I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, Ill just try to listen to my friends, and theyll say the same thing over and over again.

Amin Maalouf

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Amory Lovins

If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.

Alphonse Karr

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Anthony Burgess

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.