Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Gannon

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Cleo Cohen

The son does not live here. The son was told to leave and he came back later. He forced his way back into the residence and made threats against his parents. It was at this time his father advised he shot the son.

James Bell

After much thought and prayer, the family has advised me today that they do not desire to make a public statement, ... The family and I apologize for any inconvenience that we may have caused you concerning the press conference.

James Rubin

No formal charges have been made, but the authorities have advised that he is presently under investigation for violation of Article 276 of the Russian criminal code, which pertains to espionage.

Karl Samuda

Neither informally or formally have I been advised of any such intention on her part.

Kevin Hanson

Naturally, they're good at it. What greater assurance could a 30-mile-a- week runner have than to be advised by a salesman who's clocked 10, 20 or 30 thousand miles in his running career?

Richard Ebright

If we had been, we would have advised against it.

Tim Martin

I have been advised by my solicitors not to comment on the matter as it is going to court.

Cathy Moriarty

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.

Gwen Ifill

The theme with Hillary Clinton is, she wants to know where the outrage is. And we've found where the outrage is. It's in Howard Dean.

Tony Brown

Now, getting back to how much money you've raised so far for your campaign, approximately $6.7 million. Where is the money coming from?

Dick Schaap

You need heroes like that for a sport to surge the way basketball did with Michael Jordan. Now he's gone and that sport is having problems.

Katherine Anne Porter

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

David Talbot

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

Paul Begala

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

Paul Begala

I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run.

Paul Begala

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

Victor Navasky

What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?