Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Moyers

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day's work... In the world of David Rockefeller it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins

Bill Murray

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

Bertolt Brecht

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

Bertolt Brecht

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Bertolt Brecht

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.

Benjamin E. Mays

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

Benjamin Haydon

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

Bertrand Russell

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

Bertrand Russell

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

Bertrand Russell

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Bernard Baruch

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Bernard Baruch

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Carolyn Maloney

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Carlos Castaneda

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

C. S. Lewis

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

C. S. Lewis

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

C. S. Lewis

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Agnes Macphail

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

Agnes Repplier

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

Agnes Repplier

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Abba Eban

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Alan Keyes

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

Charlie Chaplin

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

Charles Sumner

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man