Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Tony Abbott

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

Tony Abbott

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

Tony Abbott

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

Tony Abbott

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

Tony Abbott

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Tony Blair

Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education, and education.

Tony Blair

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Tony Blair

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Tim Cox

This is the first time when we can touch people when they have been devastated.

Mark Serwotka

This is not a union that is struggling. People see we are standing up for what they want and they want to join.

Dominique Moisi

This is not a triumph for Chirac. People didn't go to vote.

Bruce Babbitt

This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many people. The problem is there's too many cars.

Julie Taymor

This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.

Bill Cheney

This is simply what a recession is like. This report represents real people and real pain, especially around the holidays.

Jaromir Jagr

This is probably the most surprising season, my season and the team's. For a lot of people around the league.

Harry Price

This is so wonderful to see all of these people who are working to preserve our history,

Simon Hauger

This is off-the-shelf technology, and we're not 180 I.Q. people around here.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Henri Poincare

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Henri Matisse

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole...

Henry Ward Beecher

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Henry James

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

Henry Clay

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.

John Malkovich

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

John Malkovich

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.