Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Neil Smith

What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

P. J. O'Rourke

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

Paul Cezanne

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

Kristin Armstrong

I became a lot more educated on this arthritis thing when I was diagnosed with it, but basically OA is a degenerative disease, which is definitely something that you're not going to be able to stop because it's going to be ongoing, but there are certain things you can do to slow down the progression.

Margaret Atwood

We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Kid Rock

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

Kenny Ortega

I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.

Kenny Rogers

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Margaret Thatcher

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

Steve Erickson

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.

At the same time, I think, we understand that value of making progress where we can.

Alain Vigneault

That's bush-league. I haven't seen that in pro hockey.

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

Marty Feldman

Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.

Martti Ahtisaari

The progress has to start now.

Pope Benedict XVI

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

Pope John Paul II

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

Pierre Cardin

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.

Philip Massinger

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

Pope Francis

The economic part is the one that came out first because there were some problems about which the press spoke a lot.

Pope Francis

The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

Rachel Caine

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

Rachel Caine

life is a work in progress.

Paulo Coelho

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

Paulo Coelho

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Philip Yancey

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.