Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Jerry Garcia

What a long strange trip it's been.

Winston Churchill

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Yann Martel

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

Oskar Kokoschka

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

Karen Armstrong

From the Rabbis of the early Talmudic age I learned that there is never a last word on God. There's, you always continue to question. Even God himself could be questioned and you can keep arguing with one another and there will be no end to this conversation about the divine because no human expression of God can be ultimate.

Billy Zane

Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you're getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they're benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Eric Hoffer

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

P. J. O'Rourke

Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.

Paul Singer

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

Rene Redzepi

I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

Vanilla Ice

Act smarter than you are and always know where your exit is in case you get into too much trouble.

Betsey Johnson

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

Richard Whately

Better too much form than too little.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

William Howard Taft

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

Ellen Glasgow

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

Emily Giffin

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.