Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Lepore

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Jonah Goldberg

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Javier Solana

Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.

John Charles Polanyi

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

Tony Randall

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.

Martha Plimpton

I like things that are civilized.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is a requirement to ensure that the withdrawal will take place in a civilized manner so that we can show the world we deserve our freedom and independence.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Kristan Higgins

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

Rachel Platten

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

Matt Witt

It's like jazz, rock 'n' roll and classical music. They're all different disciplines under the umbrella of art.

Bob Hopkins

It's huge. It's just a classical storm. It's gorgeous, from a weather person's point of view.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Alex Jones

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Robert Taylor

I don't know what they think going federal is going to do for the local people. It's actually going to do nothing.

John Dwyer

I'd be happy to have the federal government join us in the prosecution.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Jimmy Page

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

Wayne Knight

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Vince Vaughn

Please don't take a turn to negative town.

Jim Carey

If you have this information, you can see where the town is going in the future.

Jacob Zuma

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Leon Krier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

A. Hodge

You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.