Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Ibrahim Babangida

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

William J. Perry

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.

Abraham Lincoln

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

Emma Goldman

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Elizabeth Warren

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Elizabeth Warren

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.

Alan Stern

The payload that we're flying is a much more advanced payload than we could have flown, for example, in the last Jupiter launch window ten years ago.

Bradley A. Blakeman

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.

Tony Fernandes

The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay.

John Kyriakopoulos

The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data.

Beeban Kidron

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Don Young

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

V. S. Naipaul

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

Nawal El Saadawi

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Joe Tiller

We have utilized the quarterback as a runner, but not as an option guy. We haven't been convinced we can put all the time into the option and the spread passing game and be equally effective at both. We feel we can do that now.

Richard Leakey

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

Philippe Petit

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

Bernard Thibault

We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..

Bill Richardson

When I saw that program in 1967, I was convinced I was drafted, ... And it stayed with me all these years.

Atharva Veda

Wherever I look, there You are; I am totally convinced of this. Unto whom should I pray? The Lord Himself hears all.

Jim Foster

I think they probably were convinced they couldn't play any worse.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

David Wimhurst

We have all our security people out there to maintain order. When you get thousands of people on the streets, things can get unpredictable.

James McHugh

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

Richard Parker

We have always been unique and we have always maintained the old-style structure and doctrine.

Jim Boyle

We're working-class people trying to maintain what we have.

Patrick Ramsey

You kind of go through the monotony of practice, and you have a routine that you go through, and you have to maintain the routine. And for me, personally, I didn't maintain that routine as well.

Martin O'Malley

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will try to maintain the postal network, which is people's important assets, and see to it that no inconvenience will ensue,

Dirk Benedict

I maintain you can make a film/TV star out of a can of sardines.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Fatos Nano

We will rebuild Albania without Berisha as a political factor.

David Sanchez

Wilson was right when he called us a relentless political machine, and we will be in the Prop. 75 fight.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.

Rudi Giuliani

I think I'll return to politics. I have some political visions. I don't know what they are yet, they're a little foggy.

Keith McKenzie

Without a political solution things will get worse. The situation is deteriorating in the remote areas.

Zharmakhan Tuyakbai

We know it is the result of the political system in our country, because our society is sliding more and more into illegality.

Darren Dopp

That whole quote that he had from Mr. Spitzer was fabricated.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Pierre de Fermat

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Petra Nemcova

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

John Metcalf

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Natalie Clifford Barney

In love there is no status quo.

Seth Godin

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well. ... They don't think there's any type of concussion or anything like that, but where his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well, but what his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure right now.