Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Allen Tate

All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead....

Allan Bloom

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Ann Douglas

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Ann Landers

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Ann Landers

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

Andrea Jung

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

Andrea Gibson

You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

Andrea Dworkin

Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

Rita Mae Brown

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

Tom Waits

Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs

Tom Shales

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

Steve Buscemi

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

Tim Cook

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.

Sophocles

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Stafford Cripps

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

Taylor Caldwell

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

Shirley Hazzard

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself ...

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Philip Guedalla

The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.

Phyllis Schlafly

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

Pope John XXIII

Justice comes before charity.

Pope Francis

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

Pope Francis

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

Pope Benedict XVI

I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation of the Gospel bears witness to Christ and is lived out in service of our neighbour through justice for the poorest, education in isolated villages, medical care in remote areas, freedom from poverty, the reintegration of the marginalised, support for the development of peoples, the breaking down of ethnic divisions and respect for life in all its stages.