Famous Quotes & Sayings

Igor Luksic

Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

Garry Wills

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

Giancarlo Esposito

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

Ellen Key

A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.

Eartha Kitt

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

Barack Obama

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

Wole Soyinka

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

Greg Panter

That water belongs to our rate-payers. Our bottom line is any use of our water has to include compensation.

Tony Fernandes

The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay.

John Kyriakopoulos

The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data.

Beeban Kidron

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Don Young

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Thomas Wolfe

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

Wesley Schultz

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Yann Martel

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Clark Gregg

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

Bruce Jackson

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Christina Baker Kline

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Citium Zeno

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Dana Rohrabacher

The American people understand that in order to get an organization like the United Nations to reform, there must be consequences.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Viktor Yushchenko

Today, the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian people have won. The Ukrainian people have won,

Mike McGavick

We just can't put up with it anymore. The partisan nonsense that is ruining our nation has to stop.

Maurice Ager

Winning a national championship. You really can't top that. ... I feel like I'll be kind of underachieving within myself if I don't win a championship before I leave.

Richard Bush

Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Brian Collins

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.