Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Terry Austin

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

Augusten Burroughs

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Aziz Ansari

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

Ayn Rand

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Brad Pitt

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

Jamie Dimon

I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

Miley Cyrus

Love me or hate me,I don't care.I'm doing what i like.I'm happy.

Bryant H. McGill

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.

Cesar Chavez

Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

Robbie Williams

I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.' Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you're going to get some surgery.

Janet Fitch

A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.

Tawnya Gurney

Right now, we're making angels for the Alzheimer's program.

Oprah Winfrey

I've been doing this a long time and people have made donations and they've been very kind, but no one has ever given our Angel Network $1 million.

Lou D'Ermilio

The Yankees are a good draw. Anytime you can have a national team, like the Dallas Cowboys in their heyday, the Los Angeles Lakers -- people from all over the country may not cheer for them, but they want to watch.

Lou D'Ermilio

The Yankees are a good draw, ... Anytime you can have a national team, like the Dallas Cowboys in their heyday, the Los Angeles Lakers -- people from all over the country may not cheer for them, but they want to watch.

Jane Fonda

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

James Whitcomb Riley

I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- I'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

Kathryn Harrison

By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.