Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arundhati Roy

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

Utah Phillips

The most American thing you can do is to stifle dissent.

George Clooney

I thought this is a great place to house this dissent without it being on the nose and saying I'm right.

Natan Sharansky

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

David Harsanyi

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

Michael Dorf

At that point, Roberts either has to join them, saying that Roe is good law, ... or he has to join the dissent of Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas, each of whom says Roe is an abomination and should be taken off the books.

Jeremy Corbyn

I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.

Steven Milloy

The 'global warming' lobby hopes to stop all dissent by shutting out, shouting down and intimidating any opposition.

Eric Hoffer

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

David Brooks

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

David Brooks

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

Astrid Lindgren

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

Arnold Palmer

I’m particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on,

Denis Leary

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Dick Durbin

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

Dick Cavett

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

Dick Cavett

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

Dennis Miller

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

Diana Gabaldon

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Busy Philipps

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

Brian Eno

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

Brad Gomez

She's really stepped up. She just has a nose for the ball.

Jim Murphy

She's just got a nose for the goal. But she is exceptionally unselfish, too. This is the third year we try to get her to shoot more.

Edith Wharton

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Chandra Wilson

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

Charles M. Schulz

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection

Barry Williams

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Greg Biffle

So I'm saying we're not out of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.