Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Lessing

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Andrew Jackson

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

Thomas Paine

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

Thomas Paine

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Huxley

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

Thomas Huxley

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

Samuel Adams

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

Samuel Adams

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

Carl Hiaasen

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Dick Cheney

I understand how tough it is. You make it abundantly clear how tough it is. I hear it from our troops. I read the reports every night.

Paul Fishstein

This is going to be a new exercise for most people. There's not a clear and consistent understanding of what a parliamentarian does.

Charlene Zettel

This is even more evidence of the clear link between vehicle pollution and respiratory illness. We must do everything we can to take high-polluting vehicles off the road.

Hank Sheinkopf

This is another clear signal that George Pataki is positioning himself on the national stage to run for president.

John Klippel

This is the first time we have evidence that a drug can actually lessen joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis. It hasn't been clear that drugs can do this.

Tim Bennett

This is not a food safety issue. I am concerned that consumers are not getting a clear message that poultry is safe to eat.

Peggy Palter

This is really the first major move that Lacy has made. It's really a starting point. He's been very clear -- we are looking at our lines of business.

Bruce Arena

I would imagine I'll find some kind of employment after the World Cup. If not, I might want to be a sportswriter.

Gus Whitcomb

We fill a void that is very important in the employment arena.

David Penn

For some of them, it's pretty straightforward. Like manufacturing. That's its own classification in the employment statistics.

Tom McIntyre

People are expecting a strong employment number ... and I think they are being a little hesitant.

Lori Lucas

Our findings show that too many workers are not looking at their 401(k) savings as long-term in nature but are instead using termination of employment as an opportunity to spend this money,

Anne-Marie Slaughter

In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

Michelle Obama

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Mike Stoops

We feel we can really take the program to the next level with Willie.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not reached the level of (vaccination) preparedness that we should have,

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Booker T. Washington

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Robert Frost

Ants are a curious race

Tony Campolo

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

Russell Peters

Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.

Tacitus

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

Antony Starr

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.

Stephanie Parker

You just don't want to rule anything out.

Brie Larson

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.