Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Jose Marti

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation. ...[T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.

Henry A. Wallace

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

James Russell Lowell

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

James Purefoy

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

James Redfield

I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"...

James F. Byrnes

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Yvon Chouinard

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Zac Efron

There's no point in being scared of just trying.

Zach Braff

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.

Yuri Kochiyama

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Yuri Milner

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

Yuri Milner

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Zhang Yimou

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

Ziggy Marley

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Fritz Haber

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

Ben Braaten

No matter what, we are going to pressure the ball.

Galvin Morris

No matter what the score is, they've now been in that situation. They now can say we've been there before and we can come back.

Peter Medawar

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

Laurell K. Hamilton

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.