Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damon Galgut

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

Marguerite Gardiner

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Eddie Jordan

We're going to hug him and kiss him. We're going to show him his way to the basket. He's a terrific guy. We love him.

Marshall Wittmann

Usually, a candidate has to nail down the base and move to the centre after the nomination, ... She has the flexibility because she has so much affection from the base.

George Bernard Shaw

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it

Robert Lacey

Almost from the moment she was born, she has done her duty without flinching and without complaint. That's one reason there is deep and abiding affection for her.

Kevin Parker

There's a natural affinity to the two companies.

Wallace Davis

There's an affinity for those Delta areas because it's home for so many.

Rachel Leon

With this rigged system, lawmakers are choosing their voters rather than voters choosing their lawmakers.

Anthony Burke

We're seeing growth every year in the number of people who are choosing to get their refunds a week sooner, right into their banks, saving themselves a trip.

Maynard Webb

Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

Joe Quintana

The most critical decision homeowners will make when embarking on a remodeling project is choosing the right professional for the job.

James Bond

A lot of kids are choosing not to go to school on those days.

Lee Snijders

Always be prepared. It doesn't matter if you're single or married, male or female ? it's about choosing the right accessories and using them to create a sophisticated atmosphere.

Chuck Schumer

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us,

Roger Pielke

It's a good time to take a step back and think about the future of the space program, ... Choosing not to fly the shuttle would open up resources to get on sooner with what comes next.

Peter Green

There's a perception that the economy is getting better, whether that perception is real or not. You have a lot of people choosing to see the glass as half full at the moment. But I would expect that in a few days we're going to see some profit taking. This is really just a big trading range.

Chen Guangcheng

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Mo Ibrahim

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

Sinclair Lewis

a dictator with something of the earthy American sense of humor of a Mark Twain, a George Ade, a Will Rogers, an Artemus Ward.

Gary Peabody

We're helping a nation that was being murdered by a madman. He was a dictator that needed to be removed.

Augusto Pinochet

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

David Kramer

Dictators don't like to give up power freely, and in this case, Lukashenko is no exception. So I think what he would like to do and feels that the only way he can stay safe and secure is by staying in power using any method.

Michio Kaku

Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of science fiction where the Lex Luthors of the world take over. People with exceptional ability, they don't become politicians; they don't become multi-millionaires; some of them just become professors like me, making a measly income.

Karl Shapiro

But this invites the occult mind, Cancels our physics with a sneer, And spatters all we knew of denouement,Across the expedient and wicked stones.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Troy Newman

The president seems to do what is politically expedient, versus what is morally correct. Therefore, if we make it politically expedient for him to do the moral thing, that's what he'll do.

Don Cherry

We always trained together because the training is so intense, ... Hindsight is 20-20 - maybe that wasn't the expedient thing for me to do. I thought I was doing a good thing, offering my services.

Pedro Medina

Fearing for their safety, the manager complied with the suspect?s demands.

Jan Vandemoortele

I think most of the humanitarian actors on the ground think we're going to make it. We were fearing a second wave of deaths. It didn't occur.

Alan Shearer

I am fearing the worst, unfortunately - I have been injured before plenty of times so I know the scenario and I haven't got a great hope.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who makes no secret of himself, enrages: so much reason have you for fearing nakedness.

Ron Wilson

People are fearing him now, and that's what you want to see with Joe. He's a man on a mission. . . . Even though he's not getting points, he's totally controlling the game.

Alvin Wright

The officer sees the suspect reach under the passenger seat (and) fearing for his own safety that the suspect was looking for a weapon, he fires his own weapon.

Larry Hollingworth

It's what we have been fearing all along. The winter is now with us.

Frederic Lasserre

The market is still fearing that we might see some more serious hurricanes down the road,

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

Michel Onfray

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We are protesting a new form of dictatorship and authoritarianism.

Alex Ferguson

We're in great form at the moment and looking forward to every match.

Method Man

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Nicolas Roeg

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

Heikki Kovalainen

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

Kurt Vonnegut

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles Manson

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Denis Waitley

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Oscar Michelen

You don't lose all your rights in prison.

Alberto Fujimori

With this peace, there is no loser but (only) winners,

S. Walker

We're still at a point where we don't want to be. Obviously, we've got to come out and really lose a lot of the penalties.

Mark Parker

We're going to lose this nice little spot here.

Chris Cooper

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone

Logan P. Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

Howard Schultz

We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).

Vini Dawson

Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.

Lindsay Whorton

Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.

Charles Soludo

What we're losing in volume we're making up in price.

Eliza Dushku

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

Che Guevara

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

Che Guevara

One must endure without losing tenderness.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

Eddie Guerrero

How can you beat someone thats already lost everything?

Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Kyle Petty

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

Lewis Carroll

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

Bernard Baruch

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Carlos Fuentes

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

C. S. Lewis

Am I lost or just less found?

Sue Townsend

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Thomas Erskine

Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Monarchy is only the string that ties the robber's bundle.

Harold Wilson

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

William Cowper

I am monarch of all I survey,My right there is none to dispute.

William Bennett

an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.

Viktor Yushchenko

There won't even be talk of reconsidering the decision, ... first of all, morally and politically.

John LaChance

He thought what he was doing was morally right?

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Matt Birk

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

Erica Mann Jong

Nothing said or done there should morally count. Everyone is exhausted.

Stephan Sirard

There are questions morally and ethically, but legally, they can't stop us.

David Hare

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

English 14th Century Proverbs

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

George Burley

They will be in the squad. We will look at things nearer the time but the team has done very well and I've been very pleased with them.

Richard Cook

There are a lot of different paths that you can be on. We just have to wait to see which one.

Lao Tzu

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

James Lovegrove

The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

Thomas Ligotti

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

John Ruskin

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

Christopher Lasch

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

Evelyn Underhill

You don't have to be peculiar to find God,

Flannery O'Connor

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

Jeanette Winterson

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Jelly Roll Morton

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Benjamin Spock

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Bill Wyman

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Peter Davis

We respect that Scott has work to do with Wales yet, but we need to know soon because we need to make a decision.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Susie Pelzel

They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Robert Ballard

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Tim Berners-Lee

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

Victoria Wood

My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

Steven Morrissey

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

Jimmy Kennedy

We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Jessica Raine

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.

Rick Peckinpaugh

They don't stop cheering. It can get very loud.

Joe Torre

They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.

Chuck Wagner

It's time to put a stop to their (win) streak.

Rod Barnes

It snowballed on us. We couldn't stop it.

Frank Hargrove

It's not the speeding, it's the sudden stopping that's the thing.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Akhenaton

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

Chick Corea

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

Chief Joseph

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Eartha Kitt

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Eliza Haywood

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue