Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

William Pepper

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Wesley Clark

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Van Morrison

I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Billy Graham

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Yuri Milner

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Virginia Postrel

Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

Virginia Postrel

Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Ezra Taft Benson

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Ben Carson

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

Noam Chomsky

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

John Woolman

The pious instructions of my parents were often fresh in my mind, when I happened to be among wicked children, and were of use to me.

Dallas Salisbury

The PBGC report misses much of what has been happening among defined benefit plans.

Ayn Rand

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

Bible Bible

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Valecia Tedder

That was huge. That put the nail in the coffin right there.

Dan Castellaneta

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is like another nail.

Ernest Hemingway

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

Sung Sohn

This really was the nail in the coffin for the Aug. 24 meeting. I think it implies interest rates will go up faster in the future.

Sung Sohn

This really was the nail in the coffin for the Aug. 24 meeting, ... I think it implies interest rates will go up faster in the future.

Ernest Bramah

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Leonard Nimoy

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

Protagoras

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Ken Jacobs

We had some lengthy discussion about it with the commissioner .... He had sought further explanation from the umpires in the hearing.

Steve Abrams

We need to have more discussion by the public to see what teachers, administrators and the state of Kansas think about it. That is not likely to occur this year.

Lindsey Tippins

You know, the whole discussion has been turned around.

Ed Wade

We need to take time before we get into a planning period and get into our discussion towards next season.

Henry Fonda

I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.

Don Schiemann

We didn't really get much of a discussion on it at all. We were more focused in the meeting with him on (other) justice issues.

Carl Francis

We are in discussion with them as to what that language really means.

Becky G

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

David Hyde Pierce

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Nile Rodgers

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

Cobi Jones

We are still confident as a team that we will make it through to the final Cup qualifying round.

Susan Stewart

We played a good second half, but we let them score in the final 30 seconds, so we'll have to work on that.

Tyler Hilton

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

Jonas Woods

We have made a deal, and we're working through some of the final details. We want them open ASAP.

Dennis Perry

What you see on TV is usually the final table, and things are different there,

Joseph Butler

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Ezra Taft Benson

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.

Ellen G. White

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Chester Bowles

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Ernestine Rose

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

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.

Neil Kurshan

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

David Harsanyi

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

Alan Greenspan

We have a moral obligation to use our prosperity at this moment, especially to uplift communities in poverty,

Clarence Seedorf

Today's victory was important for our condition, morale and conviction.

Gary Johnson

Tiffany ran very well. We had a lot of moral victories for the girls.

Avery Johnson

We didn't come here to get any moral victories. I'm disappointed with his loss.

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Carl Jung

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Edmond Rostand

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Arthur Vint

We played pretty much every song we know. It was just one time through and we nailed it.

Charlie Sexton

We were trying to nail this one song, but the feel was all wrong,

Charles Studd

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

Caroline Corr

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

Demetri Martin

I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Max Lucado

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

Bob Dylan

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

Rafael Chaves

I thought he was the pitcher he can be during those innings. He was nails after the beginning.

Glenn Greenwald

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

Ben Shapiro

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Dennis Miller

Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare.

Dennis Miller

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Ted Cruz

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Dick Cheney

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,

Bob Dole

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

Howard Dean

We know that the president wasn't truthful with us when he sent us to Iraq,

Elaine Sanchez

Typically, the president is on a very tight schedule.

Donald Powell

Today the president is requesting another $1.5 billion.

John Kasich

We aren't going to do this alone, ... We're going to go out there and tell the president 'look, the ball's in the president's hands.'

Donald Rumsfeld

The president has not suggested that that is going to be needed,

Charles Ruff

The president has always urged everyone to tell the truth,

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

David Gilmour

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

B. F. Skinner

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Voltaire

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Cher

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Erwin McManus

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

Henry IV

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

Casey Wilson

When you're on a road trip, anything goes.

Willie McGinest

We have a long road to go. We are not worried about any records. Right now we are just worried about getting better.

John Beilein

Today's win was much-needed before the road trip. I can't really say I am comfortable now. I think our schedule has helped.

Jan Egeland

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,

George Philpott

We got off to a rough start. In the first event, the medley relay, we were disqualified, and with that long day on the road we just didn't get some of the times we wanted.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have not got down the road that far,

Jason Forte

We haven't had a road win in a while.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Denise Juneau

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Janice Miller

Where do I sign up? I can't wait.

Gloria Steinem

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

Kareena Kapoor Khan

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Jayne Middlemiss

You know what you are signing up for when you become involved,

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Kelly Chesney

Voters need to read the petitions. Don't sign anything unless you know what it says.

Tim Hevly

We have not signed him and there's no announcement pending.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Hillary Clinton

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Bible Bible

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Bertrand Russell

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.