Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Glaspell

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

Leah Ward Sears

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

Gideon Meir

We had no choice. We did what any democracy would have done.

Christopher Hill

We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community.

Terry Eagleton

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Rory Stewart

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Condoleezza Rice

to lead the region in promoting democracy, as it has done in pursuit of peace.

Ludwig von Mises

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Ayad Allawi

We are adamant that democracy is going to prevail, it's going to win in iraq and this is where terrorists are trying to hurt us and trying to undermine us.

Pat Riley

The points that he scored really weren't ones that hurt us.

Rachel Corrie

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

Alan Cohen

Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.

Alan Cohen

Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

Will Rogers

When they do nothing, they don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

Andy Hartmann

When Zach left, it hurt. But when Mike came, it was a relief because we're going to have a nice tandem in the backfield.

Allan Bertram

When Harmon fouled out, because even though he's not real tall he is very strong, that really hurt us. Their size just killed us.

Dean Stanley

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

Walter Benjamin

There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.

Farnaz Fassihi

The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

Dick Cheney

It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.

Dick Cheney

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

Dick Cheney

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

Dick Cheney

The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.

Dick Cheney

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

Dick Cheney

What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Michael Rubin

We're essentially where we were with Iraq 12 years ago. It took us 12 years to get where we are now with Iraq. It's a long process.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Michael Hayden

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Francia Raisa

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Cobi Jones

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.

Adam Ereli

It undermines the right of Kenyans to information.

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Samuel Butler

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Shaquille O'Neal

It matters in a fatherly way.

Junior Seau

We did what we had to do. Getting a win was key.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

Brad Halsey

We didn't play well and we didn't win the ballgame. That's what happens. I really don't know what else to say about it.

Vicente Fox

We are going to win this battle. We'll see who is tougher, we'll see who is more stubborn,

Dear Abbey

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Sharon Allen

We're just going to try and win another game.