Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Covert

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.

Tim Russell

I've never even seen Hickory Motor Speedway. We are going to try to get up there and test Thursday, and then participate in the open test on Friday. I am really serious about this race because if I run well, I believe it can be a boost for my career.

Robert Garrity

I've never even heard of this guy. Believe me, if his name came up, with all the things we did in that case, I would have remembered it. This is the biggest joke ever.

Liam Fox

I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction,

Matt Williams

I've liked politics for a long time. I believe governments shouldn't be as large or powerful as they've become. Giving more power to the government is like giving teens whiskey and car keys.

Rob Davis

I've been around this thing a long time and nothing surprises me. Let me say this: You can't believe everything you read. None of us were on that boat. Do you feel sorry about the situation? Absolutely, because to a certain extent, we're all grouped together as professional athletes.

Maurice Strong

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

Jim Tressel

I've always known this group has character, but you know, maybe it was revealed again, with them being down, you know, it not looking so wonderful. But they kept playing and they believe in each other.

David Kelley

I use the word innovation instead of creativity. People tend to think that creativity is something that you are born with, something God-given. I don't buy it. I believe that you can practice, practice, practice and become better. All you need is the confidence to believe you can.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Mark Fisher

I've seen people spend more time choosing a car than they do choosing a college. A college education is going to last a lot longer than a car.

Joe Roth

I've seen white helmets, I've seen gold helmets and now I've seen green helmets, ... I don't really care what color the helmets are.

Ron Zook

I've said this all along, but the thing Tim has continued to do is that he takes care of the football,

Nick Hartigan

I've pretty much been working from the day I got out of my parents' car four years ago August.

Jaret Wright

I've never tried to worry about where I fit in or where my spot is. When it comes down to it, you have to do what you have to do anyway. You have to pitch well and take care of your own business, and hopefully, you fit in somewhere. Thinking about the other stuff, for me, has always taken away from my focus on what I have to do.

Noah Baumbach

I've run into more people walking in L.A. than if I drove. Because you stand out so much if you walk. People from my past have stopped their cars and said, 'Hey!' But if I was in a car, they never would've seen me.

Mark Cuban

It would be a little hypocritical of me. I don't care how they dress. I do care how they act.

Rubens Barrichello

It would be a lack of respect to stop now and say okay, I don't care any more what's happening to Ferrari,

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Tallia Cahoon

The ore started giving out. That's when we left.

Jake Peavy

The orthopedics said they were not good giving shots in the mouth.

O. Singh

We will be giving visas from January and the Pakistani consulate in Mumbai will also be functioning by that time,

Larry Beets

This was sort of like our Cinderella, to come through here 1-0 and hold them after the pounding they've been giving to people. But you give credit. We got the pitches, and we made the plays defensively.

Thomas a Kempis

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Orson Scott Card

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Robert Kiyosaki

My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Alexander Hamilton

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

Alexander Hamilton

Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy . . . . It is to little purpose to say that a neglect or omission of this kind [not letting the feds have elections], would be unlikely to take place. The constitutional possibility of the thing, without an equivalent for the risk, is an unanswerable objection.

Alexander Hamilton

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

Alexander Hamilton

The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and the powers you give it will never affect your security.

Alexander Hamilton

Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.

Alexander Hamilton

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.

Alexander Hamilton

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Liev Schreiber

You should never ask actors about politics.

Cate Blanchett

There's very little reason in politics these days.

Milton Friedman

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

Madame de Stael

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Hilaire Belloc

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

Hilaire Belloc

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Stephen Breyer

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Charles H. Percy

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Danny Glover

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Danny Glover

Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up in the idea around our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

Dan Carter

In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.

Dan Brown

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Dan Brown

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

Dan Brown

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

David Frum

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.

David Foster Wallace

And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

David Foster Wallace

The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.