Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Keller

What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

Luke Bryan

I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.

Lindsey Haun

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

Yusuf Hamied

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

P. J. O'Rourke

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

Bob Ainsworth

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

Ted Sarandos

In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.

We are a country of the last minute.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

Preston Brooks

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

David Cunliffe

We have the highest diaspora per capita of any developed country except for Ireland. We want to get back the quarter that weren't sure.

Abigail Adams

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

Adam Smith

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.

Adam Michnik

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

Abraham Cowley

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is reasonable. And by the fact that they bring capital into these countries, they bring about a trend toward higher wage rates.

We had to punish this industry in such a way that everybody in this country and everybody in the world would recognize that they had paid a higher price than any other,

Paul Gillmor

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

Unfortunately, in the country and in the county we're losing veterans every day.

Carice van Houten

American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

David Cameron

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world...

David Cameron

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

David Cameron

We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.

David Cameron

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

David Cameron

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

David Limbaugh

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

David Levithan

You were in Sweden?" Boomer asked. "No," I said. "The trip got called off at the last minute. Because of political the unrest" "In Sweden?" Priya seemed skeptical. "Yeah-isn't it strange how the Times isn't covering it? Half the country's on strike because of that thing the crown prince said about Pippi Longstocking Which means no meatballs for Christmas, if you know what I mean." "That's so sad!" Boomer said.

David Letterman

Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?

David Bowie

There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

David Ben-Gurion

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

David Ben-Gurion

I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

David Mamet

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.