Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Robert Wilson Lynd

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Samuel Johnson

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Winston Churchill

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Gianfranco Fini

Italian prosecutors have the right and duty to verify responsibility and possible guilt.

Eliot Spitzer

What we have is a fundamental violation of the rights of shareholders and a violation of the duty of mutual funds to protect the interests of long-term shareholders,

Steven Chercover

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser. But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

Steven Chercover

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser, ... But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

John King

We feel it?s our duty to do it because it?s God?s work.

Diana Medina

We supply food and medication to our customers, and thought that duty was greater.

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to raze that prison,

Yvonne Johnson

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

Patrick Perry

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Edward Gramlich

If you want to keep politicians out of the Fed's business, which we do, then we ought to stay out of their business. That's one viewpoint.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

Christopher Hill

I'm not sure there is really much more I can talk to them about...I think they ought to come back to the six-party talks without any condition.