Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Gibbs

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

Bible Bible

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Common Prayer

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

Glen Maxey

The system has been corrupted for a long time.

Doug Abbey

Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market.

Italian Proverb

The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted

Pankaj Mishra

Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

Josh Lerner

Our standards-setting process risks being corrupted by having people filing for, and getting, any patents they want. That poses a real danger to the effectiveness of innovation.

John Fisher

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Thomas Powell

Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and you have all you truly need.

N. T. Wright

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

Richard Adams

There was just one woman. So she was just given a hard time, teased and not shown the respect of equals that she should have had.

Jess Grimes

We were lazy. We didn't come out ready to play, and Elco obviously did. Lazy feet equals goals for the other team.

Marsha Blackburn

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Rashad Bobino

If A equals B and B equals C, then you can do the math.

Mark Rein

Oh yeah, it's a lot of fun. Mark Rein equals target practice!

Charlotte Rampling

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

Dan Hawkins

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Dusty Baker

He can wait 'til Monday. The Padres are the team he's had his most success against.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Fred Wilpon

I think it's progress. I'm not sure success is unless you are in the playoffs.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

Justin Timberlake

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

Kevin Criswell

We have to be. If we want to have any success in this tournament we have to do it. We're probably a little under-talented, but we'll play better as a team.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Marcel Proust

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.