Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist.

William Kirby

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

Seiji Maehara

The people are questioning if the DPJ is really serious about taking the helm of government. (I'll) first gather the party's opinions together and let important issues be argued out in the Diet. That's my fighting stance.

Andrew Walsh

The outlook statement talks of continued weakness in recruitment markets which management argue -- more persuasively than other peers -- is cyclical rather than structural given a softer public sector in late 2005.

Victoria Moran

In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

Victoria Osteen

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

Ric Flair

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!

Ray Comfort

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.

Richard Whately

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Theodore Bikel

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

Isobelle Carmody

I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

Gabriel Mann

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Giovanni Agnelli

I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.

Gladys Knight

Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end of the court, but I don't like that. There has to be dignity at the end of the game.

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end, but I don't like that. There's got to be some dignity at the end of the game. I've got to talk to him about it. I didn't like that.

Bob Reed

One of the keys to it is treating everybody with dignity and respect - he treated all of his employees the same.

Rick Carlisle

I don't think it shows much dignity to make excuses after you get your butts kicked. It was like they're everywhere and our feet were stuck in mud.

Eleanor Catton

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

John Bacon

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

John Bacon

It comes down to the way you treat people, ... When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Hebrew Proverb

He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity

Jerry Jones

You just shake your head in disbelief and, What on earth are they thinking?

Frances Chaney

I?m still in disbelief that we won the big one.

Ted Ligety

I was in disbelief when Raich went out.

Ted Ligety

I was sort of in disbelief that he went off the course.

Carl Jung

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

James Cook

We were in disbelief that someone would be that ignorant to do something so flagrant in violation of the law,

Ed Wood

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

William Kiefer

Our feeling, in talking with people at the school, was disbelief that she would actually be involved in something like this.

Stephen Sondheim

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Dan Ferrelli

It's possible that not all of the homicides occurred in Aurora's jurisdiction.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Dr. Fauci

It is unclear whether the mutation occurred in the person or whether it occurred in the chicken.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Al Johnson

There were 39 fatalities in 2005, which was a slight reduction from the 41 fatalities that occurred in 2004 and a 40 percent reduction from 1998's 65 fatalities.