Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

Andrew Grossman

Unprecedented in its size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad of problems Wal-Mart creates, ... Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen.

Eric Anderson

We are going to show the world that private citizens can complete the training and the qualification necessary to execute such flights,

Cheryl Johnson

We are a very rural county. Our hands were just tied. Now citizens have a recourse.

Joe Sinagra

We are at sea in a sinking ship, our citizens are treading water to stay afloat, and now New Jersey government wants their life jackets.

Len Traubman

We have no illusions about what somebody like Sharon or any government professional can do without citizens deepening and expanding this public peace process of human relationships.

Martina Horvathova

We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.

James Nash

We want our citizens of Houston and our citizens from New Orleans to know that we've got to come together as one and we do that by communicating, by sharing.

J. J. Johnson

We were trying so hard not to do something that would upset this man and get one of our citizens killed. ... Everything had to be read from a script.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Chris Christie

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

Danny Granger

We still think (the series) is there to be won. We got one in Jersey earlier. We're still pretty confident.

Jeff Bagwell

This is what we always wanted to be. I didn't want to put another jersey on, he didn't want to either. This is what it's all about.

Tammy Blanchard

I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

Ali Larter

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

Jeff Tittel

What we thought was going to save the Highlands may be spurring more growth. It will be the people of North Jersey who suffer with more pollution, more sprawl and more flooding.

Rick Riordan

Agh-uhh!” the baboon grunted. He turned and waddled up the stairs. Unfortunately, the Lakers jersey didn’t completely cover his multicolored rear.

LeBron James

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

Bradley Campbell

New Jersey stands ready to proceed with a seven-state agreement. This is going to go forward.

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Dickens

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Charles Spurgeon

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape

Charles Spurgeon

Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

Alan Watts

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

Al Pacino

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

Edith Wharton

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

Arthur Ransome

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Arthur Ransome

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Lorrie Moore

It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Ivan Turgenev

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Kirsten Prout

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

Johannes Tauler

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

Dean Cain

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Leonid Hurwicz

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Peter Kalikow

We're going to stay with the old rule,

Frank Tolbert

We're going to stay together and get through this.

Ben Roethlisberger

We're going to stay loose. We're going to have our fun.

Mr Bush

We're going to stay as long as it takes.

Samuel Olson

They are treading water to see what's going to happen.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Greg Kampe

Wooten does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. He's pretty good.

Mike Walsh

They think he can't and he's going to show them he can. He's been very coachable and wants to learn.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Ram Kapoor

No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

Sathya Baba

No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.

Jim Carey

No one wants to do that more than I do.

Sylvia Hatchell

No way she's 5-6. I look down on her, and I'm about 5-6½. She wants to be 5-6, so we let her be 5-6.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Viscott

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

David Hockney

Water colours are wet colours in water.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details

Agnes Varda

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

Chanakya

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Charlaine Harris

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.