Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Kearney

They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.

John C. Calhoun

I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

Elaine Elliott

What you sort of see in a friend is somebody that you can trust. Neither one of them is egotistical. Neither one of them is about themselves. They're easy to be around and it was easy for them, as I see it, to become friends. They're very much alike in just their personal characteristics . . . It's easy to see why they're friends.

James Wolcott

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

Carroll Doherty

Where Bush is beating Kerry among men and women alike is on leadership.

Natalie Zea

The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.

Logan Marshall-Green

I'd be honored to be in the same sentence as Tom Hardy. I've been a twin since the day I was born - fraternal, but we look a lot alike - so I've already been mixed up with another man my entire life.

Anthony Weiner

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

Peter Page

The police have been arresting gang members left and right.

Winona LaDuke

Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.

Dick Thornburgh

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Mark Roe

When deputies attempted to arrest Mr. Larson, he refused to exit his house, despite the fact that they had a valid warrant for his arrest.

Christopher Dunn

We are concerned that false police statements may have tainted hundreds of cases of people arrested at the two largest mass arrests during the convention.

Nick Swardson

When you live the life of a comedian, it's such a state of arrested development. I can't deal with anything very maturely. I'm still really bad at paying bills or doing anything that would be considered semi-adult. I'm really bad at it. It's weird I can create and run a TV show, but I can't pay my phone bill.

Saleh Saaf

Tommy is a moving object, so when we do find him we'll arrest him. We will also arrest those who try to get in the way of his arrest.

Hamid Karzai

We are glad and happy for what Pakistan is now doing on their territory to chase terrorists and to arrest them,

Anita Shreve

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Dev Hynes

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Donald Trump

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

Francis Fukuyama

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

Ernie Els

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Clive Sinclair

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

Dinaw Mengestu

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Don Winslow

We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.

Billy Mayfair

We played about five holes with no wind, and then it started blowing. We played pretty much the whole back side with at least a 10-15 mph wind. It plays tricky. We just don't know the golf course well enough yet.

Rick Clancy

We plan on revealing more in the course of quarterly earnings announcements or as specific developments dictate.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Dustin Diamond

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

Persis Khambatta

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Sunil Mittal

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

Eve Ensler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Charles Sturt

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Esai Morales

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

Gary Pruitt

We plan to maintain, sustain and further the journalism at these newspapers.

Tracy Morgan

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

Tamsin Greig

I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Abraham Lincoln

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Nassau William Senior

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Tessa Hafen

Any contributions he received were part of lawful fundraising. Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and sees no need to return the donations.

Jim Manley

This is just a typical part of lawful fund-raising.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Carl Gustav Jung

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong

David Zayas

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

Chris Ware

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

Cilla Black

I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.

Dev Hynes

I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Howard Schnellenberger

What you want to do is run the carpetbaggers up north empty-handed.

Ali Babacan

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Horst Keller

We can see there is a swirl here that is similar to the one we know from the north pole.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Steve Conroy

We didn't see the type of wind or rain that was pelting the northern part of the state.

Ken Mayland

We are not there yet. I think anything north of 83 percent, we could see price pressures.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Mark Russell

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Max Planck

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out,

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Sam Davis

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Wale

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

Khalil Shikaki

There is little to no public support for the old guard.

Mark DiCamillo

There is a vein of the public that is leery of big industry.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Kari Appler

We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Bonnie Langford

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Donald Gher

We're doing OK. Are we going gangbusters? No. As we get into the week after Christmas, you're going to have another push upward of sales.

Cheryl Lynn

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Ned Yost

We were getting short out there. You can't keep pushing it.

Rudy Murillo

We're really pushing this year to get the youth involved.

Bob Lachky

We're really pushing this hard, and we're starting to see some momentum.

John Danforth

We are not suggesting the resignation or pushing for the resignation of the secretary-general,

Fred Couples

We were trying to push each other on.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Abraham Lincoln

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Ellen G. White

The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

L.A. Reid

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

Rig Veda

Those who are misers shall never part with their money.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

John Donne

Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?

Yani Tseng

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

Bulgarian Proverb

If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Rick Sparks

True. I just wish they could spread it out a little more.

Allan Hale

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Daniel H. Wilson

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Jane Goodall

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

J. Paul Getty

Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

Helen Thomas

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

William Cavendish

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.

Nadine Turcotte

Till I play him. Then it's a different story.

William Shakespeare

Till I have no wife I have nothing.

Al Roker

Wait till you see what comes out of the water,

John Jarvis

Wait till you see us out there this year.

Kristen Wiig

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

Tim Williams

From now till the end of May, you'll see wildflowers.

Mark Twain

Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well

John Witherspoon

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Neil Gaiman

Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

David Bowie

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

John Eccles

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

Jason Baker

This one was the ultimate whiteout - a wall of snow.