Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeane Kirkpatrick

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Jeanne Moreau

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Jenna Elfman

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

George H. W. Bush

No generation can escape history.

Graham Nash

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Honore de Balzac

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Ice T

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

He really reveled in this kind of thing -- American history and the history of the court,

He prides himself on reading laws narrowly. He loves it. He thinks his job is to read laws as narrowly as possible.

For the first time in the history of that program, Maine's number one project is ranked number one in the country.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

Ellen DeGeneres

Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen.

Ian Mcewan

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Hugh Leonard

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Hugh Hefner

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

Horace Walpole

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

Clive Lloyd

If he doesn't respect me he should at least respect the position (of match referee), but he made matters worse for himself with his dismissive and rude attitude.

Charlie Melancon

If history is any indication, then no, I don't think they're ready. They are still not prepared for doing all that's required for Katrina.

If he was a Smith or a Jones, I would have hired him.

If he's the best, then he should have to prove himself by having an open and transparent and public hiring process.

Gloria Steinem

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

I wear high heels for long legs.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

H. G. Wells

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

H. L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Guillermo del Toro

I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

Greg Jackson

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

The history of one is the history of all.

Jessica Simpson

Is this chicken or is this fish?

Jessica Simpson

I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me.

Jerry Bridges

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

Jerry Bridges

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.