Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malik Peiris

One can narrow potential culprits and be prepared with vaccines.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Frederick Pollock

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

James Baker

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Diane Setterfield

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Charles Kingsley

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

Blaise Pascal

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Keyshawn Johnson

How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Al Franken

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Al Gore

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

Michael Bidwill

We're serious about winning. The new stadium allows us to do some things that we haven't been able to do before.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Charles de Lint

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

M. Wolfe

We?re not going back into the trash business.

Jeremiah Trotter

We were just trash talking, and it escalated a little bit,

Mary Lou Retton

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Stanislaw Lem

Practically all SF is trash.

Richard Roeper

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.