Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar

There is a huge transformational shift in the way consumers and businesses alike are signing up for non traditional phone services -- and a unique offering like this enables them to be

Rebel and government commanders alike must order their forces to protect all civilians, regardless of ethnicity. Attacking civilians and targeting ethnic groups are forbidden under the laws of war.

John Donne

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

Thomas Jefferson

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

Abraham Lincoln

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Maya Angelou

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

The good news for motorists and retailers alike is that petrol prices have potential to fall even further.

Rudyard Kipling

The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

Anthony Weiner

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike

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The world is shrinking so quickly that US cities look more and more alike and major capitals look more and more alike, and there are similar solutions.

Trevor Pryce

They are more alike than you think. I think Jake would like to be on the cover of 'GQ' himself with that hair. Actually Jake was in GQ. Nobody knows that. I was reading GQ, and it was something about his beard. It was like him, Tom Brady and David Carr, and they were saying something like the caveman look works for them. So I think they are more alike than they think they are.

It was amazing how much resilience was shown by the U.S. markets after the power cut debacle on Thursday. These markets seem hell-bent on holding their line and investors and analysts alike seem confident that the U.S. economy is coming back on to the bit with a vengeance.

James Wolcott

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

Where Bush is beating Kerry among men and women alike is on leadership.

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Marcus Aurelius

All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike

Cesare Beccaria

The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.

A few short months you are going to have seniors that will be swimming in the pool. Teens playing basketball in the basketball court, hanging out in the lobby, you'll have young and old alike in our fitness centers working together.

Floyd Abrams

I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.

The whole concept of having the convention was to rekindle the love for old-time music. Both young and old alike have found a bond in playing together at the convention.

Sathya Baba

All are One. Be alike to everyone. Share, propagate this truth all over the world.

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

We created the Wind Power by Pembina program to help individuals, corporations and governments alike help move towards a sustainable energy future by setting a great example and powering their computers, homes, businesses or events by the wind.

Tim Conway

Every show wants to be like Friends, and so you've got these shows that literally are so much alike you could stack them on top of each other.

DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey; And if that fit observance e'er I shut May I and duty be alike undone. --Israfel Brown

Bill Ritter

We see a lot of parallels. We have similar roots in many respects . . . and we think alike on the issues we are talking about in this campaign. I believe we can strike the same chords and win the election in the same way.

Brian Williams

There's a danger that all these images start to look alike to viewers.

Like his parents, Tristan is a fighter and we know they are going to get through this. Although the chemotherapy treatment is a good way to bring leukemia into remission, doctors and experts alike have said the best chances of survival lie with a successful bone marrow transplant.

Ronald Reagan

Let friend and foe alike know that America has the muscle to back up its words.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden.