Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

Ken Anderson

We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.

Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Michael Vick

When I got hit, it was painful, but I got up and was able to walk, ... I was able to go back out there and fight it out like I always do.

Le Corbusier

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

Johnny Gonzales

We did what we had to do to win. We are fighting for that third playoff spot and the kids worked hard for the victory.

Jim Brandt

We are not engrossed in total sunshine, but we're in good shape. We have a pretty good set of sunshine laws. The problem is fighting off exceptions. Every time the Legislature meets, there are exemptions considered. Accumulation of exemptions is our great potential problem.

Alan Cohen

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Alan Cohen

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

Alan Cohen

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Alan Cohen

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Charlie Dent

There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way.

Alan Ball

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Al Oerter

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Al Seckel

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Dave Barry

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

David Suchet

I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Pete Wentz

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

Lin Loring

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

Lillian Bullock

We're like a tag-team. If she's not posting you up, I'm outside shooting the jumper.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Sam Dumont

We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.

Bob Dylan

You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

Courtney Adams

We just stood there and watched it burn.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Robert Brown

We two stood there with never a third.