Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

John C. Calhoun

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Barack Obama

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Rand Paul

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Rick Perlstein

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Frank Pierson

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Charles Hodge

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

Gore Vidal

By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

Daniel Yankelovich

The picture we have is really quite similar to that of a lot of polls that share a growing concern about the situation in Iraq,

Peter Drucker

The overseer of the unskilled peasants who dragged stone for the pyramids did not concern himself with morale or motivation,

Abraham Lincoln

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Chet Faker

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

Alex Pareene

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

Nina Garcia

Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.

Eric San

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

John Saul

Dictionary: Opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Vano Merabishvili

If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.

Luc de

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.

Thierry Breton

We have lost control,' that was his expression,

Don Cornelius

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

Ross Mathews

I'd love to host a game show one day. I love giving things away.

Patrick Wang

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

Russell Smith

The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.

Lisa Love

We are open to whatever the options are, one of which is to host the game,

Kerrilynn Gallagher

When you're hosting a tournament, it's mentally and physically exhausting.

Graydon Carter

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

Remi Oyo

We are in touch not only with the hostage takers but with the hostages themselves.

Shane Warne

When we go to South Africa, it is going to be pretty hostile there. They are going to rip into us and try to nail us down.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Brad Paisley

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Nuno Bettencourt

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Mark Twain

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Johnny Weissmuller

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Richie Sambora

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

E. W. Howe

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

William Shakespeare

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.

William Shakespeare

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Werner Herzog

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Frank Quattrone

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

Connie Sellecca

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Sean Booth

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

Lou Adler

I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound.

Nathaniel Philbrick

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

Marlon Wayans

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Masahiro Tanaka

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

Gary Jackson

We did not receive any request from them to review a particular size standard for that particular program.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Thomas Perls

These findings should be regarded as a warning: If you have Alzheimer's in the family, you have to take precautions.

Thomas Nelson Page

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Matthew Devost

Most sites that are doing e-commerce should have some kind of security statement with regard to how your transactions are secured.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.