Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. L. R. James

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

Jonathan Vaughters

The prize money is a bonus. You split it between eight riders and mechanics and then you have enough to buy dinner.

Richard Davis

We show them how they can invest the money in real estate and earn 12 to 15 percent, through us. We typically buy a house that is 50 to 60 percent undervalued, put some money into it and sell it for 100 percent of its real value.

Wynona Redmond

We understand that grocery shopping is a local experience. People buy their groceries in the same communities where they live and work. So when it comes to giving, our customers expect us to make a difference locally, and we do.

Steve Nickerson

The conversion of 'I think it's unique' to 'I will buy it' is much higher for HD-DVD.

Jim Sullivan

When the price of Coke goes up, you can say, 'That's too bad; I'll buy Pepsi.' But you can't do that with gas. We have to take it on the chin and pay it.

John Antioco

We want to be the place where people can rent, buy or trade movies or games, in store or online.

Sen. Constantine

The fact of the matter is when you're dealing with a refrigerator or any of these other energy efficient (appliances) you don't just buy it in October. You buy a refrigerator when it breaks.

Jack Baker

What is the compelling reason to buy stocks right now? There isn't one. If you're looking out six, 12, 18 months, there are some good ideas, but right now there's no incentive to buy,

Robert Barry

What investor wants to buy a company that sells plastics to GM when plastics are going through the roof while the prices GM pays go down?

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

Lenny Bruce

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

Thomas Aquinas

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

Terry Waite

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

Jules Michelet

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Karl Kraus

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Paul Krugman

Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.

Katharine Hepburn

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

George MacDonald

Moderation is the basis of justice.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

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.

Mayor Vance

If you don't take some time to dream, then you never have a vision.

Elie Cohen

If you get burned, you will take time before you try again.

Mark Ruffalo

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

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.

Dave Grohl

I like to keep things going, ... No breaks... We have such little time together!