Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Sue Adams

We were pretty happy because Mount Vernon is a really strong team. You hate to face such a great team in the second round.

Alexander Dubcek

Socialism with a human face.

Susan Sontag

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Bob Groves

Let's face it, I think light rail is much sexier than buses.

Lori Anderson

Plus, we played two younger girls from the jayvee team. It's always nice to get fresh faces on the floor and get them some experience. Anything can happen when it comes down to the tournament.

Alex Newell

On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.

Ian Shepherdson

On the face of it these are very Fed-friendly numbers.

David Stahl

On the face of it, there seem to be some inconsistencies,

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Tommy Franks

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Abraham Lincoln

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

Abraham Lincoln

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Ani Difranco

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

Andrew Napolitano

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Andrew Napolitano

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

Alexander Lukashenko

The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.

Albert Speer

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

E. Stanley Jones

The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.

Doug Flutie

There’s nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There’s nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a person.

Don Lemon

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Douglas Booth

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.