Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Beckett

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

Vasily Grossman

In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

Moshe Sharett

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

Patrick Stewart

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,

Eric Liu

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

Lyndon B. Johnson

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Frank Luntz

I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John McCain, his opponent - Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain.

Bill Ayers

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

Dilma Rousseff

The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.

Ayelet Zurer

I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.

William J. Clinton

I will never let Israel down....

William G. Boykin

We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy.

Sarah Palin

Only in an Orwellian [Barack] Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust broken from atop his unicorn as he`s peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty. This treaty will not bring peace. You don`t reward terrorism. You kill it!

Sarah Palin

So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

Richard M. Nixon

[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

Tucker Carlson

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

William Blake

The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

Tzipi Livni

I understand the sentiments of the Palestinians when they see the settlements being built. The meaning from the Palestinian perspective is that Israel takes more land, that the Palestinian state will be impossible, the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we’ll say that it is impossible, we already have the land and cannot create the state.

Ovid

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Tom Leighton

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

Llywelyn Jones

It's a great place to be gay online because no one knows who you are, where you live. They only know what you tell them. Online, you can lie. It's very easy to make up a whole different person online because you have a fake name and you can be really secretive and deceitful about it.

Chris Christie

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Benjamin Franklin

None are deceived but they that confide.

Bible Bible

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Mercedes McCambridge

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits

Michel de Montaigne

If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.