Famous Quotes & Sayings

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

Bill Keller

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

Takao Toshikawa

Abe will have to give a press conference twice a day -- and he will have to learn to restrain his tongue on China and Korea.

David Velasquez

Abe had an outstanding day, his 200 time was the best time for us in the 12 years I've been here. 'Shorty' (Baca) had a tender hamstring but he ran good.

Joe Biden

Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.

Geoff Ladd

These billboards will show how people can continue their Abe Lincoln experience with Logan County attractions.

Dennis Prager

The love of freedom is actually an aberration.

Bob Gunton

Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Dick Gregory

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Alan Greenspan

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Alan Greenspan

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Jamie Shea

We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.

James Hood

We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state.

Andrew Golden

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

Pat Keliher

We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time.

P. J. O'Rourke

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

Denis Waitley

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

Alan Autry

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Chris Christie

Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one.

David Brooks

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

Ben Whishaw

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Antonio Tabucchi

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Kami Snyder

We actually back it up by file and give you the choice on which files are most critical to you.

Denis Waitley

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Denis Waitley

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

Deepika Padukone

I am the universe. Infinite in every direction. This is my choice

Jim Rogers

Where's a group that really deserves something? Veterans.

Jesse Segall

When it comes down to a trial, we're going to try go get people down to support him. He's one of the nicest kids ever. He deserves our support.

Bob Stoops

We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there.

Cheryl Rice

We're really excited. I'm just happy for Alberta. She's worked so hard. She deserves it. She's paid her dues and she deserves it.

Jeremy Reed

It's just a special moment. And he deserves it.

Ed Jasper

It's a shame the way that game turned out because Tommy deserves more recognition than he's going to get now.

John Franklin

This guy's family deserves a peaceful funeral. It's not right what they're doing. The only reason they're able to walk around like that is because the veterans fought for their freedom.

Gordon Hartwell

They told us about it (in) the third quarter. That's why she was in in the fourth quarter. The level of player that she is, it's fitting. She deserves it. She's worked her tail off.

Thurman Bell

It's not my priority to get kids a Division I ride. It's just a plus when they get that opportunity. Kyle has a special talent and he is fortunate to be able to use it to get an education. He has put in a lot of hours and he deserves it.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Al Neuharth

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't climb the ladder of success...

Denis Waitley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Louis C. K.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Agnes Repplier

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

Ludivine Sagnier

I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be willing to do a movie. I watch trailers of every new American movie and I'm, like, 'OK, I'm not missing anything!'

Eric Heitmann

I took Thomas' passing pretty hard, ... The things that are helping us are to talk about Thomas, and to re-live his life. On the plane on the way home, we gathered a big group of us, and we just sat and rehashed everything we could remember about Thomas. There was just so much joy in his life.

Robert Wagner

It was very coordinated, and again, the residents during that time reentered the building, gathered their belongings, and then departed.

Neil Sheehan

We've reviewed all the information they gathered at the 110 percent power level and have not identified any anomalies or reasons to prevent them from going to the next higher power level.

Bible Bible

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

Pat Riley

We gathered ourselves really well in the third quarter and played really well.

Romeo Crennel

I think they gathered together and played better (in the second half). We didn't play as well and they were able to slow him down.

Marcia Danchise

We took them items ranging all the way from refrigerators to sofas, bicycles, computers, washers and dryers to clothes. We've had an overwhelming response from the community. All of these items were gathered in only a week's time.

Jean Paul

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Edward Hopper

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Sam Brownback

A lot of us wanted somebody who has a pretty well-established and thought-through and set judicial philosophy,

Dick Armey

Sometimes you get judicial rulings that gladden you and sometimes you don't,

Prince Nayef

Do we have anything other than sharia? We don't have a judicial system other than sharia.

Louise Arbour

My main interest, to be very frank, is to solidify the judicial system.

Luo Gan

Judicial work at the grass-roots level has bearings on the overall situation of the judicial work of the country.

John Roberts

I do not have an over-arching judicial philosophy, ... I have no agenda.

Sheriff Stankus

It's become a circus. It's become entertainment. It's no longer a judicial procedure, and that's scary . You wonder, where is this society going?

Anne Foley

Then I think judicial notice can be taken to that effect,

Gloria Borger

They wanted a symbol. They wanted someone who openly supported their views of the Supreme Court. But they know nothing about her judicial philosophy.

Howard Dean

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

Charles Krauthammer

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

Michael Caine

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

Jerry Seinfeld

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

Jim Bunning

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Steve Young

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Laura Bush

Roberts' nomination was the result of surprise, not consultation,

Frankie Muniz

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

Roger Ebert

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Sam Brownback

We want a nominee that's set, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg is set,

Charles Schumer

My first reaction is a simple one: It could have been a lot worst. ... The president has not sent us a nominee that we've rejected already.

Lynn Coady

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

Michael Brown

We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Chuck Jordan

It's just something I thought his supervisors would want to know about, and possibly the public.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Paul Reiser

There was nothing you could come up with that would possibly be wrong.

Anna Paquin

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

Duane Gapinski

The situation is intense. But we are determined. Certainly, we are not panicking. We are doing all we possibly can with the resources we have.

Oenone Wood

The thinking was that one person on their own could not possibly stay out there for that long on their own. We were wrong there.

Mathew Baynton

I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

Chris Christie

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

Chris Christie

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.

David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Louis C. K.

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

Al Goldman

What has been going on is a very sharp reaction to a slowing economy.

Rolf Elgeti

We're seeing a technical reaction to yesterday's sell-off. But, I think we'll be seeing more selling Thursday and Friday.

Steve Miller

There was much more reaction than we expected.

Kevin Bailey

There's a wide variety of reactions in trauma situations, so I would say, yes, it could be,

Rafael Marquez

It was going on through the game. His reaction is understandable.

Michael Aspel

People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.

Tom Browning

I've never seen a reaction like it, it's just incredible.

Lee Ferridge

It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake.

Brandon Marshall

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Chad Smith

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

Charlie Munger

Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle...

Charlie Munger

Well, the questioner came from Singapore which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy and therefore he referred to 15% per annum as modest. It's not modest-it's arrogant. Only someone from Singapore would call it modest.

Bill Wyman

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Mike Kramer

It's been so long since we've won. We've got to get back on the winning track.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Edmond Rostand

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.

Eddie Huang

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either