Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernie Sanders

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

Bernie Sanders

This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to a recent study, CEO pay is now 295 times more than the pay of a typical worker. In 1965, the differential was 20 times. We must create an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.

Bernie Sanders

We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.

Bernie Sanders

Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which means that you have a political system which is heavily dominated by corporations and wealthy individuals.

We want to go get respect. That would mean a lot. I think we're slowly getting there.

When you made that mistake, you didn't mean to mislead anyone, did you? No, I didn't.

Stephen Jay Gould

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

The Optimist's Handbook, hint #12: Substitute the word 'challenge' whenever you mean to say 'problem.'

The record is an accomplishment that I'd never thought I'd have. I thought about it midway through the game, but the record doesn't mean as much as winning a state championship.

We don't want our season to end. For many of us it would mean the end of our careers. I live for basketball. I don't want to see this end yet.

Orson Scott Card

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

Orson Scott Card

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Orson Scott Card

In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

Orson Scott Card

Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.

Ira Glass

You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.

Robert Kiyosaki

Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

Robert Kiyosaki

People, who live below their means, save for a rainy day - the price is a cheap life. There are a lot of people who have a lot of money; but at the end of the process, they are still cheap; so they have made money their God.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you took all of my money away, I would have it right back. I don't really care about money. I mean I do but why worry about it because I can make my own money all the time.

Robert Kiyosaki

Enjoy the time you have with your friends & family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them.

There's no long-term relief in sight for Dow Chemical. It remains a big target. But it doesn't mean it remains a vulnerable target.

The 'timeout' means that we are going to reassess our position of where things stand right now. It doesn't mean we are going to withdraw our support for the peace process, just the opposite.

We've put ourselves back in the playoff picture, but it won't mean a thing if we don't win our next game.

Flip Saunders

What does it mean at this point? I don't think you put too much stock in it.

Douglas Adams

Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

Douglas Adams

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Douglas Adams

Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.

Doris Roberts

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

Dorothy Allison

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Doris Lessing

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

Doris Lessing

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

Doris Lessing

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

Donald Kennedy

Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.

Don Williams

Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.