Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

Marvan Atapattu

We have also suffered similar defeats in our early years.

Anthony Cordesman

will end in snatching defeat from the jaws of uncertainty.

Brian Kapusta

I thought he wrestled a great match when he defeated Mark Brown. He wrestled smart.

Jim Bolla

We had considerable consideration, but we didn't get in.

Phil Mason

We have a track record of success in defeating moderates in the primary. No one else has done the job in that area.

Eduardo Najera

You learn more from defeat than you do from victory. We've been through a lot the last month, and we're finally learning how to make big plays down the stretch.

Henry Steele Commager

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Kevin Tsujihara

One of the most effective weapons for defeating online piracy is providing legal, easy-to-use alternatives.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Benjamin Rush

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Bill Vaughan

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Bill Bryson

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Bill Burr

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Sam Craig

Once it's in play (a nomination), you want to try to go out there and get as many votes as you can.

Charles Kennedy

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

Jerry Bell

We're overwhelmed by it. It was more votes than we expected.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Al Scates

They're very solid. They had a lot of first-place votes this week. We know they are for real.

Pete Wilson

We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.