Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing

Najam Sethi

Given the normal cynicism of Pakistanis, something like this has never happened. I think the scale of the disaster is something that has touched everyone to the core.

M. Wolfe

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

Robin S. Sharma

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Pauline Marois

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

Bob Newhart

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Newt Gingrich

There is a very big difference in where the two parties will take America, ... I sometimes get distressed by our friends in the media because they try to reduce everything to gossip, scandal-mongering and cynicism that I think is profoundly false for this country's future. There is an enormous difference in the two parties. We would go two very different places.

Albert Camus

Happiness too is inevitable.

Alex Kingston

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Mark DiCamillo

Those are pretty rough numbers, the level of cynicism. He just has not communicated with voters in making his case.

Ingrid Reed

I think to a lot of voters, this kind of thing just reinforces their cynicism. Doug Forrester has campaigned, and is campaigning, in a way to say that 'I'm not like other politicians and I don't do the things they do.' So it cancels out his message.

Terry Gilliam

I hate being dragged into genres. I like movies that are full of a lot of conflicting and interesting things,

Paul Blake

It could have gotten dragged out. But there were other issues. It got to the point where there were too many things going on.

John Niven

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Nancy Gibbs

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Adrian McKinty

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

Jalal Rumi

Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the summits I ascend.If I go around in circleI observe the axis on which I revolve.If I am dragged by a burden,I know where I go.For I am the moon, and the sun is my guide.

Harold Schaitberger

The administration has dragged its feet. We have people who have been waiting for months. This is ridiculous.

O. J. Simpson

Then (she was) dragged into a boy's restroom by a 15-year-old male student and allegedly was sexually assaulted,

Virgil

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Dave Wilson

That will have ripple effects throughout the health-care system, especially those individuals in Nova Scotia that are waiting for surgeries.

Heather Boushey

We need to know what the effects of these programs are on American families.

Ron Dittemore

We've done all that we can think, as far as testing in a one-G environment and simulating the effects of our (shuttle) maneuvers on the mast. But there is that element of risk that there may be something we didn't get, that we don't quite understand.

Peter Jackson

There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.

Peter R. Grant

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Scott Ransom

We know in the past that there are effects that have hurt our surveys.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Robert Winston

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

James Cameron

I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.

Bill Vaughan

Vote in a national election.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

Today, there are a lot of opposition members of parliament who are not only ready for elections, they're pushing for them,

Ranil Wickremesinghe

We have to now ensure there are free and fair elections.

Trish McDermott

We have to know what single people are thinking and the upcoming election is part of it.

Larry Sabato

Usually this happens after the mid-term election of the second term -- during the start of the seventh year of an eight-year presidency.

Mahmoud Abbas

Voting is the right of every citizen. It's a national obligation because the results of the election should reflect a truthful expression of all Palestinians.

Jay Lapeyre

(Voters) wish there were an election right now.

Peter Spencer

With the election well out of the way, the chancellor's forecasts have taken a step back towards reality.

Jendayi Frazer

With the election of their first president, now is the time (to get Taylor in court).

Fritz Hollings

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Tim Clark

The announcement by the governor is two weeks late.

Liz Boyd

Today, the governor has no intention of suspending the sales tax. It would be an option, under a variety of circumstances.

Jennifer Granholm

Today, the governor has no intention of suspending the sales tax, ... It would be an option, under a variety of circumstances.

Peter Dunbar

We're really pleased that the governor has shown, at least in our first negotiating sessions on this, that she seems to mean business.

Peter T. King

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

Donald Harris

I'm hoping the governor can step in and help out.

Mitt Romney

Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.

Ric Williamson

Those are two guys under a lot of stress, as were all of us. They speak with candor, and that's what the governor expects.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.

Marlon Wayans

People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there's no greater feeling.

Terry Kerr

We've done a number of other searches, not specifically related to this, but because of a greater student awareness.

Ken Kendrick

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

Hermann Oberth

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Madhup Tiwari

When we questioned him about his whereabouts he was unable to give any satisfactory answer.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Todd Rundgren

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

Chrissie Hynde

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Richard Rogers

We don't see the need to sell it in the first place.

Thomas Mesereau

You did it because you wanted to sell a story.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Tod Kowalczyk

I was surprised it didn't sell out in September.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Bill Vaughan

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Bruford

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Carolyn Gray

We've got one right now that we need for someone from the south side of the county,

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Missy Elliott

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

Deborah Moggach

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

Dick DeVos

Who better. I know what it's like to sit on that side of the table.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

Skip Bertman

That would be something very special. It's already been a very special season.

Jimmy Calderwood

That was very disappointing on such a special day,

Donald Trump

I think this wedding is one of the most special ones we've done.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

S. Walker

We do most of our own work. Only specialty work is sublet out to other contractors.

Derek Moyers

We really think, if we can stay healthy, it can be a special season.

Zac Taylor

We have something special going here, so we're just going to keep going.

Rick Clausen

We know it could be a special year,

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Bernie Sanders

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

Carly Fiorina

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.