Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

Bill Schneider

His whole argument is 'Vote for me, and this is how I'm going to do it. I'm going to beat Bush, and here's how.' That's his whole campaign.

William Hazlitt

There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law.

William Shakespeare

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Scott Moss

There is an argument that it would be appropriate now. But I doubt that will happen.

Richard Dawkins

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

Sarah Vowell

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

William Henry Harrison

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Infinite are the arguments of mages,

Ashley Painter

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Steve King

The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

Otto Schily

It's repulsive to claim that terror and extremism will be imported to Germany if we modernize our citizenship laws,

David Blunkett

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

James Garcia

A whole community starts on that road to fully realizing its own American citizenship or its rights as full-fledged Americans. In that sense they really are the catalysts for the (Latino) civil rights movement.

Kate Linder

These several sanctions are used to promote better citizenship.

Eric Liu

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Efraim Zuroff

The only hope we have here is that his Austrian citizenship gets cancelled.

Cindy Morris

Cub Scouts is about patriotism and citizenship, ... This is a great example of that.

Robert Pattinson

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

Yves Saint Laurent

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Lin Yutang

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.