Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Timothy Noah

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

Ian Mckellen

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Gale Harold

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Garry Hynes

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Vincent Bugliosi

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Colin Angle

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

Robert Hayes

The (poll) numbers suggest an abysmal program. This benefit was designed to make it impossible for consumers to understand it.

Lisa Wathne

We're pleased that they (USDA inspectors) did go out there but still feel cautious about this situation because the regulations that the USDA enforces are minimum, and I emphasize minimum. In cases where they declare that there are no violations of the Animal Welfare Act, animals can still be languishing in really abysmal conditions.

Dennis Hastert

Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.

Kim Petersen

We've spent barely $700 million in federal grants to U.S. ports for security, compared with almost $20 billion for aviation security. And most important, we are doing an abysmal job in assisting ports in the developing world in improving security to even minimal acceptable standards.

Tony Ward

Tough talk ahead of the encounter proved to be just that with the second-half performance abysmal in the extreme.

Ken Duckworth

Some good things are happening even in abysmal states.

Sen. Hanabusa

No extension should be granted to the city and its operator (Waste Management of Hawaii) because of its abysmal record.

Pat Riley

We came in here and that team just took it to us and took it away from us. It was an abysmal night.

Paul Blank

We call on Ambassador Andrew Young to use his new position to help us change Wal-Mart for the better, rather than defend its abysmal record of child labor violations and poor health care.

Frank Sharry

That would mean President Bush would have to weigh in.

Joseph Biden

That will require the ( President George W. Bush administration) not to stay the course, but to change course, and to do it now.

Peter Singer

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

William Daley

We were glad to hear Governor Bush report that he was doing very well, and we join everyone in wishing him and his family the best,

Roger Ailes

tolerate waiting and would be patient but only as long as they were convinced that Bush was using the harshest measures possible.

Kathleen Blanco

We have been waiting for this funding since President Bush made his moving speech on Jackson Square in September. Please do not make us wait any longer.

Mark Ferrulo

We're wondering where that Jeb Bush has gone. We were facing the same fight back in 2001 with lease sale 181, but the difference then was some important people were facing re-election and we don't have that this time.

Mark McKinnon

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

Mark McKinnon

I'll tell you, Liz Cheney is going to be a very good candidate. I worked with her during the Bush campaigns. She's smart, she's focused, she's disciplined - and she's got a great back story. She's got a large family. She's a great mom. And she's a hard worker. I think she's going to be a very effective campaigner.

Thor Heyerdahl

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Ice T

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

Ivana Milicevic

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

Gina Bellman

There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.

Donald Trump

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

Zadie Smith

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Ismail Kadare

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

Giovanni Agnelli

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Wesley Clark

Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe.

Christien Meindertsma

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

Des Browne

Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?

Barack Obama

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

Malala Yousafzai

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Gore Vidal

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

C. S. Lewis

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Bethenny Frankel

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Laura Bush

The American people realize we have a new culture and that is one of being vigilant,

Elizabeth Hoffman

We need to know whether there is a culture that promotes inappropriate relationships with women,

Reza Aslan

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.

Diana Lee

We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and the satisfaction come from using the objects to glean an understanding of a culture and a society so many years ago.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Peaches Geldof

Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

Roxane Gay

When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.

Mary Bonauto

They've already been married and I think many people find it degrading to pretend that their marriage doesn't exist, ... They shouldn't have to forfeit their marriage license at the Connecticut border.

Elisa Massimino

The House and Senate have now spoken loud and clear, with a single message ? the United States will not permit cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Michael Lehnert

Keep in mind that though the president has made that distinction, many of the detainees here are not forthcoming. Many have been interviewed as many as four times, each time giving a different name and different information.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.

Joanne Mariner

There is no doubt that the United States held and tortured detainees. The only doubt is whether these detainees were being held on European soil.

Michael Lehnert

We still have three individuals who are hard-core. While they are eating, they are fasting. All detainees are drinking. All detainees have eaten meals.

Genderen Stort

There are around 180 detainees left in the prisons.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden.

Curt Goering

These detainees are being held solely for their political beliefs. If the Ethiopian government wants them on trial, it should at least be a fair trial. This will be a test of the independence of the Ethiopian judiciary.

Philip Ruddock

This morning ... some 70 to 80 detainees set fire to two recreational buildings, the dining room and an ablution block,

Bryan Whitman

We typically don't talk about the movement of detainees except when they are being transferred or released to another country. We don't typically talk about the transit for security reasons.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Lee H. Hamilton

We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.

David Ball

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

Joe Johnson

We have a global Navy, and we're not going to restrict where the system will be deployed. It could be worldwide.

Tim Laatsch

We have to look at us as a global entity.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Kevin Lowery

We're a global company. We need people who understand global issues.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Benjamin Rush

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Bill Vaughan

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Bill Bryson

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Bill Burr

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Bill Bryson

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Roxanne Taylor

The Andersen Worldwide counterclaim is as illogical today as when it was originally filed 19 months ago.

Roger Wicker

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Mel Gibson

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Graffiti Graffiti

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

Peter Sis

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

Brian Goldberg

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

B. F. Skinner

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

Peter Pace

If they are physically present when inhumane treatment is taking place, sir, they have an obligation to try to stop it,

Leslie Cockburn

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

Anais Nin

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

Martin Freeman

To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.

Barbara Lee

An abstinence-until-marriage program is not only irresponsible. It's really inhumane .

Rob Morosi

We have work going on practically everywhere. It is a worry. It?s a worry for the motorists. It?s a worry for the workers. It?s a worry for their families. Every day they step out the door, and you just don?t know what going to occur out here.

Sabas Pretelt

We can't wait until it occurs before taking action,

Henry Bonilla

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

Michelle Paver

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Lina Wertmuller

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

James E. Faust

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Sharon Reid

We are now in the process of reviewing our policies and procedures.

Erik Jones

We don't even have any policies and procedures, yet.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Michael McCaul

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Susan Borelly

It is not the way we wanted to do this, but we don?t know how else to get these policies changed.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Dick Pound

I think one is right to say some of these records are pretty suspect,

Martin Nissenbaum

Have your records tied up as neatly as possible, so you're not shuffling through records,

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

George Meyer

We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important,

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Melvin Maddocks

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

Phil Hare

Today is really all about Lane. I told a reporter today he has been like my brother.

Anna Olson

There is no fabrication of snow reporting here. We have a reputation, if anything, for underreporting.

Stacy Flores

He did nothing wrong. He was just a victim of retaliation for reporting a crime.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Bertrand Russell

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Muhammad Yunus

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

Stephen Push

I think it's shameful that they didn't warn the American people.

Ruby Ali

I think it's shameful that there is no barrier.

Ralph Peters

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Craig Craft

We just couldn't get any stops in the end.

Quentin Richardson

We put it on the board. The (stuff) stops here.

Scott Parker

It all started from making some stops on defense. Then we started to make some stops and get some turnovers.

Robert South

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Mykelti Williamson

Tim Olyphant is a machine. He never stops thinking and being creative.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Ben Wallace

We've got to get back to making stops when we need them.

Darren Sanderlin

It was beautiful. We just made stops when it counted.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Carson McCullers

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Nathan Barankin

a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

Jane Austen

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Tipper Gore

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

John Walters

There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

Joe Williams

Treatment is the way to go, ... It can work if you have the right model.

Craig Hill

Treatment is available. It's (addictive) and treatment works.

Leon Russell

Treatment for it is not all that effective,

Tony Dungy

He's getting treatment every day and it'll probably be a game-time decision,

Rick Clausen

I'm going to get a lot of treatment this week, as many times as possible, to get the soreness out.

Don Flanagan

It swelled up pretty good. But we'll let her get treatment on it and see how it goes.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

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

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.