Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Vladimir Putin

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

Morgan Freeman

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

Keira Knightley

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

Kenneth Oppel

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

Paulo Coelho

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange

Hazrat Inayat Khan

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Mark Twain

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Laurell K. Hamilton

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

Kevin Kelly

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

William Shakespeare

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

Lee Westwood

The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.

Amory Lovins

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.