Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Lepore

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Jonah Goldberg

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Javier Solana

Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.

John Charles Polanyi

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

Tony Randall

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.

Martha Plimpton

I like things that are civilized.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is a requirement to ensure that the withdrawal will take place in a civilized manner so that we can show the world we deserve our freedom and independence.

Eric Swanson

I think in the long run, it'll pay off,

Harry Anderson

What you get when you come here is you pay way too much for my stuff, but you get it signed by me, demonstrated by me,

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Darren Clarke

He said, 'You do know which TV tower I was talking about, don't you? I said, 'Yeah, the one on the right.' And he said, 'No, it was the one on the left.' It was all my fault. I didn't really pay that much attention.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Bill Dudley

I think you have to be somewhat skeptical about the payroll number.

Keith David

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

Tyra Grant

He does a lot of different things for me. He pays for me going to camp. He's a very big part of my life.

Woody Hayes

You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Fred Lawrence

I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money. I never was and never will be a wealthy person.

George Twigg

We don't want to be a place where you have to be wealthy to live here.