Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Alan Alda

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Bill Maher

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Fred Humes

We are all familiar with that expression that united you stand and divided you fall. You need to be good stewards of the resources that you have and then you need to join together for the greater good.

Louis Farrakhan

United we can solve our problems and divided we have nothing.

Pauline Hanson

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.

Michael Beschloss

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

Andrew Kohut

So the public is really very divided on this issue. The ambivalence is remarkable.

Sheldon Goldman

Is she qualified? If the leading professional association is either divided or comes in with a negative report, that could be fatal. Strongly positive, that would be helpful.

Julius Caesar

The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts.

Javier Solana

The U.N. route has to be continued... Europe is not divided on this point.

Charles Eastman

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Tim Parmeter

We started off on a spurt, but every time we got up by eight or 10 (points), we let them back into it.

A.J. Jones

We started off all eight together, did some medium turns, then four went over to a jump.

Ron Duchesneau

We spent the first six to eight months of the SOX project figuring out how we were going to do this.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Luis von Ahn

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

John Lilly

We were an extremely young football team last year and played some freshmen, and we were hoping that would pay off. But we elected to just not talk a whole lot about last year.

John Tippett

At a minimum, we will would like to see some new opportunities for regional transit to be presented to our elected officials.

John Edward

a strong network of elected officials in South Carolina.

Ismail Haniyeh

This is an elected government and it must be given all the authorities and they should not be touched.

Paul Hewitt

For Eureka, things we can do (are) speak one-on-one to our neighbors and friends (and) to our elected officials (about risky drinking).

Stuart Pearce

This must be the only industry in the world where you can have a total novice, who has not even been in management for one year, being touted for the top job in English football. Would we say the next prime minister is going to be someone who has not even been elected as an MP (lawmaker) yet? No.

Rob Schneider

There was no task that he wouldn't take on. When negotiations would roll around, people would make sure that Martin got elected to that committee. They wanted his experience, his intellect.

Marsha Blackburn

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

Tom Reynolds

It is reprehensible that some elected officials are looking to score political points in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation.

Sonia Gandhi

They should be encouraged to do better as they are our strength. But they must work for the betterment of the party without hoping for electoral gains.

Tom Golisano

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

Boris Nemtsov

This is simply quite stupid ... The American electoral system needs modernizing. An American comedy!

Chuck Schumer

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

Timothy Noah

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Rene Preval

We have questions about the electoral process. We want to see how we can save the process.

Ernesto Zedillo

I am sure that in the next weeks and at the end of the electoral race prudence and the fundamental unity of the Mexicans will prevail at the slightest hint of intolerance or illegality,

John McKay

We're protecting Florida's 25 electoral votes and its 6 million voters,

Marianne Williamson

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.