Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

David Wade

Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since.

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Joe Torre

Opening day is very special. We've waited a long time for this. I left for spring training about two months ago.

Ken Gaddy

Our saying is it's not what's in the museum, it's what's left out.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Walter Kirn

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Win Butler

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Mark Adams

We were kind of left to make it up as we went along.

Tony Beardsley

We're not sure if he's 100 percent because we haven't thrown him out there. He's doing better. I look for him to come back where he left off.

David Horn

Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle.

Linda Pierce

Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.

Elizabeth Jones

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Wynne Wakley

Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.

Martin Freeman

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

Bill Bullard

Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Ian Jackson

Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Jimmy Carter

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Jimmy Carter

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

Jimmy Carter

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

Jimmy Carter

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

Jimmy Carter

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

James Surowiecki

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

Emeril Lagasse

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

M. Wolfe

All of the sudden, the president now has two openings. That's not unique, but it's rare,