Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Panetta

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Elia Kazan

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

Marcus Aurelius

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

Thomas Aquinas

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

John Burroughs

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

James M. Barrie

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

Haruki Murakami

The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Edward Hopper

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Ted Koppel

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

Jonathan Haidt

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

George Crabbe

Good is done by degrees.

Malcolm Forbes

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

John Malkovich

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Nicholas Johnson

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Arlen Specter

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

Lee Iacocca

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

Tom Waits

and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.