Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jane Fonda

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Jan Schakowsky

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

James Theodore Bent

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Calvin Coolidge

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

James Wolcott

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

Janis Ian

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Bobby Fischer

He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.

Brigham Young

The Constitution and laws of the United States resemble a theocracy more closely than any government now on the earth, or that ever has been, so far as we know, except the government of the children of Israel to the time when they elected a king.

Jim Calhoun

I've been in a (locker) room with some talented teams and some teams that bordered on greatness. But I don't know if I've been in a room before with so many kids that have sacrificed so much.

Archibald Alexander

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Brad Meltzer

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget,

Baltasar Gracian

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Demosthenes

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Eduardo Galeano

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.