Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Jodi Picoult

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

Kathleen Parker

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

P. J. O'Rourke

Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

Paul Begala

The media didn’t hand it to Obama; after all, the Number One cable news channel, Fox, is right-wing. The Number One newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, also has a right-wing editorial slant (and is owned by the same guy who owns Fox News). The Number One talk radio show is Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity is Number Two, and Glenn Beck is Number Three. When you control all the largest media outlets, it’s time to stop grousing about liberal media bias.

Paul Bowles

You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?

Marya Hornbacher

And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.

Mark Haddon

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

Paul Samuelson

This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts to drop dead.

Don Lemon

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

John Bauer

Things have to be coordinated, ... We just can't have people running around doing what they want.

Jamie Johnson

The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.

O. Henry

The whole program has turned a corner. If people didn't know us before, they know us now.

Jennifer Granholm

The will of the American people is stronger than any hurricane's wind,

Michael Garcia

The word isn't getting out so much, and if more people knew, they would campaign.

Jason Hagadone

These are tougher. We're in (the games) and we know we should win them. We've got the people and opportunities to win them. We just need to come through.

Duncan Hunter

These are the people who tried to kill us,

Alex Knott

These are the people that really get things done. There is a premium on them and there is a reason.

Norman Cousins

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

Morris Gleitzman

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

Francis Crick

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Gilbert Highet

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

Gertrude Stein

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Havelock Ellis

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Gresham Barrett

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.