Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Robert Cormier

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Walter Bagehot

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Saul Bellow

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

William Booth

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

John Cleese

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

William S. Burroughs

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Van Jones

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Sarah Dessen

I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check." -Cora

William Bratton

Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In some ways it can help them in their investigations and in some ways it can hinder

Walter Mosley

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

William Peter Blatty

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

Warren Rudman

If you talk to mayors, to governors, to police chiefs, they are just not ready, and we had better get ready,

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Stephen Rodrick

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Chris Mangum

Guy is an attacking wrestler. He is tall and long and creates match-up problems for other kids in his class. Most of the kids are three to four inches shorter and he uses his arms and legs to his advantage.

Julia Allen

He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation I had. I didn't get to hold him in my arms before he left. It just hurts.

Jarrod Kerr

I think the bank (RBA) will welcome that with open arms and it will further confirm their idea to sit on the sidelines at this stage and ride out the blip in oil prices.

Gerard Bisceglia

Lance Armstrong is one of the most tested athletes in the history of sport and he has come up clean every single time. This kind of years-ago testing of a single sample with new technology is completely without credibility.

Dick Pound

There is a direct link between Armstrong and a positive test that he signed.

Sergei Ivanov

There is no better advertisement for our arms and military hardware than a real demonstration of their capabilities in the course of practical exercises,

Jaswant Singh

There is no arms race in South Asia.