Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolle Packer

If I were Lance Armstrong, that's what I would insist on in court,

Kai Bird

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

Charles de Montesquieu

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Matt Will

The market insisted that this is the way to go.

Charles Grassley

No Senator has the right to insist on his or her own issue-by-issue philosophy, or seek commitments from nominees on specific litmus test questions likely to come before that court.

Eric Cantor

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Robert Bonner

Those who insist that marijuana has medical uses would serve society better by promoting or sponsoring more legitimate research,

Source Unknown

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

Robert Aventajado

If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.

Ayelet Zurer

I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.

William J. Clinton

I will never let Israel down....

William G. Boykin

We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy.

Sarah Palin

Only in an Orwellian [Barack] Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust broken from atop his unicorn as he`s peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty. This treaty will not bring peace. You don`t reward terrorism. You kill it!

Sarah Palin

So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

Richard M. Nixon

[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

Tucker Carlson

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

William Blake

The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

Walid Jumblatt

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

Lauren Bacall

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Herman Wouk

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Jerry Seinfeld

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Harry Triguboff

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

Harry Triguboff

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Judith Butler

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?

Adam Mansbach

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

Chris Browning

we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.

Tamara Brown

If you do it to me and my neighbors on Knight's Key, ... you are setting a precedent to do it in your neighborhood.

Steve Kinney

I'm not going to have any neighbors for a while.

Scott Edwards

It's going to be a quiet March. The neighbors (on the beach) should be happy.

Nancy Hall

They've been wonderful neighbors, in fact, I don't even know they're there.

Gordon Smith

They've been turning off dams, tearing them out, shutting down nuclear reactors, preventing new utilities from being sited, ... We as their neighbors should not have to pick up their tab. It's just really a question of fairness.

Bob Davies

They are affordable, and people have established a nice sense of community. Obviously, the neighbors get to know each other. They have mobilized pretty quick.

Jon Huntsman

This could be the state of Utah we're talking about. We're doing it for our neighbors this time, but it could well have been Utah,

John Galloway

We're having just a wee get-together with neighbors.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Rebecca West

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Russell Baker

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

S. Hughes

It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another, and we have the Lord,

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Jan Dawson

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Tanya Kach

It was her idea. She said it was so they didn't recognize me.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand, ... It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Robert Barnes

They recognize that without the traveler, there is nothing to reorganize.

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Ronald Reagan

Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Juli Inkster

In this society, it's 'What have you done for me lately?'

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

Roustam Tariko

I launched Imperia at the Statue of Liberty because I wanted to use something symbolic. I like American society because it always wants to do something new and better.

Malcolm Muggeridge

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.