Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard M. Nixon

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Wallis Simpson

Never explain, never complain.

Saint Francis de Sales

He who complains, sins.

Wim Wenders

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Mark Twain

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Nicholas Sparks

You should not complain, it's not attractive.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

Publilius Syrus

There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

Margaret Cho

I will never stop complaining.

Naomi Wolf

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

Kevin McCarthy

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We can call it Isratine.

Margaret Thatcher

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed-but they can never be appeased.

Paul Wolfowitz

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

Karl Popper

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

Mo Ibrahim

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

Chen Guangcheng

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.