Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

Everyone has been wonderful, ... So many people have sent me supportive e-mails or attempted phone calls.

Robert Sloan

The attempted cover-up failed, and the investigation continues, ... Our investigative committee will continue to aggressively pursue the truth until we are satisfied that a thorough and credible examination of our men's basketball program has been completed.

Shinzo Abe

Its regrettable that the company attempted to illegally export equipment to China that can be used for transporting weapons of mass destruction. I expect a full picture will be revealed through the further investigation.

Erich Pratt

It's raised as a question mark that the thought of a gun may have averted her attempted rape. It would have been good to point out the existing evidence on that topic.

Darnell Couthen

The officer first attempted to verbally stop the fight and then tried to physically separate them. The officer was physically struck. To ensure the combatants' safety as well as his own safety, the officer used the means necessary.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

Sgt. Griffin

Officers attempted to keep him from going into the house. At that time a single shot was fired and he was shot in the head.

Gregory Benford

The moon's closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth.

Greg Evans

The snow was falling heavily outside. I sat before a blank page for close to ten hours. I refused to get up; instead attempted with great pains to coerce stubborn thoughts from my noodle. Useless it seemed until the 11th hour and then all I'd seen and felt and heard, arrived, and was transcribed effortlessly like the tune of chirping birds.

Paul Light

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

Tom Daschle

President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Rea Hederman

The idea that the federal government can control the economy like a master can control a pet is erroneous, ... There's no magic wand that Bush can wave.

Jay Rockefeller

And really there was no sense of urgency. That was vastly frustrating to a 30-year professional who had been doing counterterrorism for four different presidents. ... He wanted to get things done and was frustrated by the Bush administration.

David Peterschmidt

And I think President Bush is going to get his tax cut, which also is going to help. But the consumer is a big part of what's important here. So far the consumer confidence has been okay, but it's the cautiousness of the consumer, I think, that's making a lot of corporations more cautious in their spending.

John Greene

A lot has changed between 2004 and 2006. President Bush is not nearly as popular. There are scandals in Washington. The war in Iraq is lingering on. And there are other policy problems. So it may very well be that Republicans will look to social issues, and phenomena like the marriage amendments, as being especially important in an environment where they don't have as many things going for them.

Jay A. Sekulow

The focus will soon shift to President Bush's next appointee to the high court. We have no doubt that President Bush will select a nominee who embraces his judicial philosophy of interpreting the Constitution - not legislating from the bench. The political dynamics suggest that the confirmation process for the next nominee will be much more contentious. We hope that isn't the case, but are certainly prepared to move quickly and aggressively to ensure that the next nominee gets a fair hearing and a prompt vote in the Senate.

Andrew Card

We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election with at least 286 electoral votes.

Andy Card

We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election,

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Gary Bauer

There is so much work to do with George and so little time to do it,

Michael Showalter

George Pataki is a Baxter, no question. But Mario Cuomo is not a Baxter.

Bruton Smith

I was around George about a half hour once and I knew right then I could do what he did and with less expense. the only thing that is holding me back is a signing bonus.

Harry Belafonte

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

Casey Affleck

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

Frances Farmer

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Don Evans

I'm not scared here, ... I feel very safe here, quite frankly. And I'll tell you what else -- the people of Iraq are not scared.

Jose Maria Aznar

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Kevin Bacon

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

John Bolton

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

Michael Rubin

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Rita Ora

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

Sterling Knight

I watch way too many VH1 reality shows like 'I Love Money' and 'Tough Love.'

Carl Jung

I love you," I whisper. "And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.

William Butler Yeats

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

Kelly Lynch

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

Keith Stanfield

I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.

Melissa Sagemiller

I don't have any control of how I am received. People will either like me, not like me or love to not like me.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Woodrow Wilson

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Sarah Palin

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Richard M. Nixon

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

Narendra Modi

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

Phil Bredesen

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

John Mica

Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

John Lancaster Spalding

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Miguel de Cervantes

He who reforms, God assists.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Ezra Cornell

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

Jim Leach

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Rick Riordan

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Regis Philbin

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

William S. Burroughs

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

William S. Burroughs

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

William S. Burroughs

In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

William Kristol

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.