Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Chris Bell

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Craig Smith

is like the mad cow calling the herd rabid.

Mary Berry

They already feel mistreated. By calling them refugees, I think, makes them feel less American.

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Neil Diamond

Being lost is worth the being found.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Brian Posehn

I also smoke a lot of pot, occasionally, every day.

Bill Carr

And we'll be sensitive to that as we look at the potential changes.

Irish Proverbs

A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.

Veronica Roth

Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich

Stephen King

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

Steven Chu

Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

Arab Proverb

If a pot is cooking, the frienship will stay warm

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Auberon Waugh

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Conrad Black

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Confucius

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

Andrew Fastow

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Ronald Reagan

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Tim Kaine

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

Thomas Bernhard

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.