Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Brennan

It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

William Jennings Bryan

Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

Woodrow Wilson

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

William Shakespeare

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Shatner

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

William McKinley

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.

William James

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

William Friedkin

There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

Whitney Cummings

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

David Lee

Just like Harry you have to learn your way around. You have to go to classes, learn spells, and interact with evil counterparts.

Will Grace

Karen- I'm not good or real...I'm evil, and imaginary.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Thomas Kempis

It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.

Edmund Burke

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Anton LaVey

Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.

Bible Bible

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Confucius

He who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil.

Robert Cormier

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Robert M. Pirsig

So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

Rory Bremner

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but its entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if youre a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

Ron Gardenhire

I'm kind of spinning a little bit, to tell you the truth.

Jake Gyllenhaal

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

Lauren Oliver

That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.

Justin Berfield

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.