Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Murdoch

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Lech Walesa

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Chuck Grassley

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

Louise Slaughter

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

Frances Wright

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

Chris Chocola

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

Robert Lanza

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Sonia Sotomayor

We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

Alice Waters

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

George S. Patton

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Ann Richards

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Helen Thomas

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

Theodore Bikel

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Allen Tate

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

Jean Paul

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Christopher Eccleston

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Danny Bonaduce

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

Thabo Mbeki

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

Roger Daltrey

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

Andre Agassi

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

John Wooden

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

Caroline Corr

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

Michael Burgess

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

Clive Anderson

Well, I'm happier talking about other people than me.

Joaquin Phoenix

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

Garry Trudeau

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

Monica Lewinsky

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

Treat Williams

Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

Brad Thor

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

Evander Holyfield

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Jeff Goldblum

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

George Ayittey

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

Armstrong Williams

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Stella Young

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.

Dick Gregory

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

Carl Sagan

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Aaliyah

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.