Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Nicolas Maduro

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Gunter Grass

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Robert Shaw

There is no point in pushing toward municipal or general elections in Nepal. First, there needs to be a democratic process.

Karen Roberts

We're looking forward to having John Samples, a well-rounded candidate, represent the Democratic party in Precinct 4.

Bernard Williams

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Matt McKenna

A lot of unanswered questions that the state Democratic Party has been asking, now, unfortunately for Sen. Burns, the U.S. Justice Department is starting to ask.

David Blunkett

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

Jalal Talabani

First of all, I would like to state that the Kurdistan Democratic Party is an old party with great history, and so is the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Alan Lewis

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Bill Watterson

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Charles Dickens

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

Charles Dickens

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Charles Dickens

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Mark Warner

A lot of states wanted to help, but there was no place to turn.

Kevin Luibrand

They go through the United States so they get half-price.

Eddie Rodriguez

It's not right. The United States is nothing without immigrants. The United States is nothing without Mexicans.

Jack Quinn

It's the United States Senate. I'm sure some will try to use it as a platform,

Jason Wu

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Annette Lu

Taiwan is democratic.

George W. Bush

I simply said that I would do everything to help Taiwan to defend itself.

Jeremy Lin

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Hu Jintao

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

Steve Johnson

Democratic, market-oriented Taiwan is a thorn in its side.

Eddie Huang

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

Bill O'Reilly

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Charles Manson

I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right.

Caroline Flint

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Dr. Esse

A lot of those could be treated out in the communities.

Chris Stevens

They treat us pretty good. They don't make us do all that much.

Tipper Gore

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

David Sedaris

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

Alec Baldwin

Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Robert H. Connelly

They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Jerry Costello

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Alan Paton

There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

Alan Rickman

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Alan Moore

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Moore

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Al Stewart

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

Akon

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.