Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Stieg Larsson

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

John Vane

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

Hilary Clinton

It is one thing not to know exactly all we should be doing to protect our homeland. It is something altogether different not to be doing the business we are expected to do to provide as many resources effectively deployed as possible to try to ensure that so far as humanly possible we have done our job.

P. J. Harvey

Inevitably, a dramatist writes one play, his director interprets another, the actors perform a third and the public sees a fourth and an altogether different one.

Richard Doherty

If you look at BMW and Mercedes and Ferrari and Lexus, altogether they aren't even 5 percent of the world's car output,

George Bernard Shaw

If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

Ralph Perry

If patriotism is "the last refuge of a scoundrel," it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether

Ricky Ray

I'm just proud of the way the guys came out and played. In all three phases, we played an altogether great game tonight.

Willie Pearson

King was persistent in her words and deeds of encouragement. She never wavered from her stance of non-violence as the only viable option for change.

Richard John Neuhaus

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person...

William Morris

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Fred Johnson

The interpretation of the deeds will set the tone in Kansas.

Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

John Lee Hancock

A good deed is a good deed.

Blaise Pascal

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Dalai Lama

... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

David Lee

Just like Harry you have to learn your way around. You have to go to classes, learn spells, and interact with evil counterparts.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Bible Bible

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Confucius

He who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil.

Richard John Neuhaus

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Samuel Johnson

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

Oscar Wilde

Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

Tullian Tchividjian

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

Walter Lippmann

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Joseph Addison

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Steve Graham

He was one of the most patriotic people I've ever met.

William J. Clinton

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

William J. Clinton

The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

William J. Clinton

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

Richard M. Nixon

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Learned Hand

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Learned Hand

Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

Margaret Thatcher

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

Barbara Ehrenreich

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Marshall McLuhan

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Patrick Henry

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Henry Louis Gates

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Rob Willman

I think we could've done a little better. I'm not down at all. But we could've performed better.

Tom Roberts

They got out and performed really well today. I'm really pleased with them.

Andy Williams

They took him upstairs to the nurse, who performed C.P.R..

Rick Miller

It's not much worth just reading the play in a classroom, but it's a whole other thing seeing it performed live in a way that makes it relevant to their lives.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Patrick Kelly

I am so very proud of all my wrestlers. They performed like warriors.

Doug Castellari

That's the style we teach, and they performed well.

Woody Johnson

I think he's performed fabulously. We're not winning, but he's doing everything he can to win, and I think the team's doing everything they can.

Doug Anderson

It's become increasingly indefensible to have no refugee admissions.

Marco Rubio

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

John McCain

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

Jamie Shea

We've prevented Milosevic from using refugees as a weapon to destabilize neighboring countries.

Michael Franti

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.