Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chin-Ning Chu

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Eminem

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Joe DiMaggio

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Joyce Carol Oates

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

John Irving

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

James McBride

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.

Thomas Jefferson

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Robert Higgs

For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so?

Rick Santelli

The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard

Rick Santorum

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.

Rick Santorum

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

Rick Perry

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Mark Oaten

What are the kind of words that somebody would use which could then be implied to be incitement? This will be hard legislation to draft.

Joe Aquilante

Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.

Bart Szarko

Tony worked so hard in camp. We're hoping he comes back. The timetable says he will. He's a leader.

Mark Dantonio

Tony plays so hard and he is so smart. He is a winner who makes plays and has made himself a starter this spring.

Larry Scott

We've been testing the systems and they have been better than 90 percent accurate, which is better than the human average. We haven't set a hard deadline, but next summer is realistic. We want to make sure it is completely reliable.

Courtney Hill

We tried. We worked hard to get the word out. We did interviews, we did CNN, we went everywhere, but we didn't have any luck.

Fannie Goodwin

We tried to send a message because we heard they had a (tall) player and we were shorter than her. We had to work real hard on defense.

Doug Piquette

We just made way too many mistakes to win the game. But the kids battled hard and competed.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Aidan White

No. That is not what I heard him say.

Debby Ryan

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Nick Lowe

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

George Carey

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

George C. Marshall

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

Herman Melville

Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

Greg Mortenson

I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Afghanistan so far. Now take the cost of one of those missiles, tipped with a Raytheon guidance system, which I think is about $840,000. For that much money, you could build dozens of schools that could provide tens of thousands of students with a balanced, non extremist education over the course of a generation. Which do you think will make us more secure?

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Milton Berle

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

Muhammad

Women are the twin halves of men.

Mark Twain

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

Mark Twain

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity ...

Martin Farquhar Tupper

An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.

Nicole Richie

I don't have a clue why I'm famous, either. But I didn't make myself famous. I'm not doing it; you are doing it.