Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

Huston Smith

All -isms end up in schisms.

Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

George Seaton

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

M. F. K. Fisher

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Jim Shaw

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

Tibor Kalman

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

Bill Bryson

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Ashton Kutcher

If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family.

Antoine Lavoisier

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Bertrand Russell

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

Ken Leavitt

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

B. B. King

I never use that word, retire.

Diane von Furstenberg

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

Dexter Fletcher

You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.

Dhani Harrison

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Nate Meerstein

We wanted to make sure we proved a point to whoever we were going to be playing on Saturday night. And let them know that we know how to play and we're playing at a pretty good level right now, contrary to what people think or have been saying about us this year.

Jacques Chirac

(It) is contrary to the wishes of the (U.N.) Security Council and the international community,

Rene Preval

We are not the party of violence. On the contrary we are victims of violence by others.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

George Bernard Shaw

No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Elliot Perlman

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.