Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift

I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Mauricio Farah

We're not trying in any way to encourage or promote migration. The only thing we're trying to do is warn (immigrants) of the risks they face and where to get water, so they don't die.

Dave Ramsey

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

Bill Rancic

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

Jamie McGoldrick

We have to use this opportunity to support and to encourage the support of people (to get) back to their places of origin so we can help rebuild their lives.

Marco Rubio

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

Carol Patterson

We need to figure out if we want vending in Athens, are we trying to encourage it, or do we want to get rid of it?

Anna Rozenich

We neither condone, nor encourage participating in this type of activity. It is inconsistent with our brand.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Andrew Mellon

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Dalai Lama

I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier.

Dalai Lama

While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

Dinesh D'Souza

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Dick Morris

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Deepak Chopra

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Debbi Fields

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.