Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

Zebulon Pike

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

Lewis Wolff

I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,

Robert Collier

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Jerry Falwell

The First Amendment is not without limits.

Paulo Coelho

I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits

Natalie Portman

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

Leonard Cohen

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

Karl Barth

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

Karl Barth

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

William J. Clinton

We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.

Samuel P. Huntington

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

Mickey Kaus

I'm not anti-immigration.

Hillary Clinton

I have been for border security for years. I voted for border security in the United States Senate. And my comprehensive immigration reform plan of course includes border security.