Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cornyn

Throughout his years on the nation's high court, Chief Justice Rehnquist stood as a beacon of judicial restraint and reverence for the Constitution and the institution of the Supreme Court. I believe Judge Roberts will follow the lead of his mentor, and guide our nation's highest court by those same principles and devotion to the rule of law for all,

Thomas Menino

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

Bill Twardy

This is the first time we've won the Beacon tournament. There's always a lot of good competition, a great field (16 schools). In 9 of 15 weight classes we placed in the top four. We have kids who can place, we have a lot of depth, and the entire team racks up points. I'm very pleased, this is the best team we've had since 1998, and possibly the best ever.

Tom Benson

Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.

Rick Clark

A steeple is a beacon for the community,

Steve Wozniak

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

Paul Gourley

Israel is a beacon of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.

Jim Widman

What that would do is discourage traffic from cutting through Beacon Woods, which was a major concern of the residents.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jaret Wright

We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Makoto Ebata

We are looking into all potential locations, but eastern Europe is a strong contender.

Michael Roach

Unfortunately, Middle Eastern people are going to be approached more often than not,

Brenda Wickwire

They played pretty well. We play Eastern Wayne (today) and that is going to be a tough match because they are a good team.

Lu Donnelly

They stopped following the trends in Eastern Pennsylvania and tinkered much more with variety. There's a huge variety here that you don't see in eastern counties.

Bill Goodman

There was flooding in some various streams, but just toward the western half of the state. I don't see it as being problematic for Eastern Connecticut.

Richard Grasso

It will be a market that will have very little to do with Eastern Standard Time,

Roger Altman

The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.

Todd Crawford

After a prolonged stretch of very mild weather in the eastern U.S., winter will return in February.

Alexander Rahr

Right now, we have a gas war in Eastern Europe. A politician like him would have to be in the middle of all these quarrels.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Chris Christie

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.

Chinua Achebe

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Edward James Olmos

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Eddie Izzard

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

Eddie Izzard

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

David Duke

More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

Derek Bok

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Denis MacShane

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Jay Parmeter

What helped is the suppliers all wanted to showcase their products.

Jim Moran

would probably have helped us apprehend him by now.

Kathy Burns

We got to walk up the hill for Martin Luther King. He helped people become what they are today.

Amy Hamilton

At first, I was kind of nervous. But he's a really nice person. He's really helped me with my form.

Edward Yingling

It's been six years in the making, but the lengthy legislative process has helped to produce a thorough, well-thought-out bill.

Rev. Dryer

It's exhilarating. There's so much satisfaction knowing you helped someone.

Tim Thomas

Thirteen million (dollars) to sit down and watch basketball? To work out on your own? I mean, knowing that I could have helped that team? That team is just trying to get into the playoffs. It wasn't my decision. I wanted to play basketball. They didn't want me to play basketball.

John Torchetti

They were fantastic. There's plenty of work to go around. Ray helped me (in Saturday's game) just getting the rust off; I was pretty much stuck into his left shoulder.

Asne Seierstad

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

Bernard Kerik

I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this -- this memorial band for the 23 I lost.

Bob Schaffer

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

Carl Levin

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

Carl Levin

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

Kofi Annan

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

Dennis Kucinich

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

Dennis Miller

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

Edward Kennedy

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

Clare Boothe Luce

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Robert Dale Owen

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!

Jessalyn Gilsig

I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.

Marian Seldes

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

Big Sean

Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.

Stephen Harper

When we have an election, the government's record will be back on the radar.

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Jam Master Jay

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

Edwin Starr

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

Cheech Marin

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Dr. Nabarro

Avian influenza is a big threat. It is spreading throughout the world.

John Jones

Offensively, I thought we penetrated to the basket. We got them spread out and got some seams to the basket.

Ernie Roberson

These new registrants are everywhere; they're spread all over the state.

Katsuhiko Machida

The old way of doing things was just spreading us too thin.

Jane Goodall

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Larry Helmerick

We just need moisture badly, and we don't need it all at one time; we need it to be spread out.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere

Arnold Bennett

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Cher Lloyd

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.