Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

David Hume

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

David Hume

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

David Burnett

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

Benazir Bhutto

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Bear Grylls

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

Barry Bonds

Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

Athol Fugard

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

Chris Kennedy

We always hope our federal bureaucracy is going to do a good job responding to the needs of Americans. The painful fact is, this is a bureaucratic process. Unfortunately, there are complaints all over the place out there about the speed with which the agency is dispensing with these claims.

Kevin Rose

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.

Kathryn Lasky

Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.

John Henrik Clarke

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.

Jason Mraz

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Bill Whalen

when he joined the campaign two years ago to oust and succeed Governor Gray Davis. ''He used to be a celebrity, then he became celebrity/politician Schwarzenegger. And now, he's more politician.

Ruth Reichl

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.

Bill Forsyth

When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that he became a grocer.

Edmund Phelps

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

Robert Sternberg

Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

Thomas Mallon

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.

Brian Callaghan

No one community is immune to it. We try to be vigilant and on top of our responsibilities. Fire, police, youth leaders, churches, different civic groups, parents, schools, and the kids themselves all have the responsibility to keep kids safe. We all own it.

E. O. Wilson

She just embodied the generation of civic duty. Her zeal and passion never stopped. This isn't like a phase she grew out of.

Carolyn Bricklemyer

She's a wonderful mother and role model through her faith and civic involvement and a very special grandmother. She has five grandchildren, and each of them think they're her favorite.

Marta Tienda

Significant educational investments will not only foster improvements in their health status, civic engagement and economic productivity, but also contribute to U.S. prosperity.

Eddie Quinn

Number one, that civic center's got to go,

Vaclav Klaus

But the Civic Forum has put me in a very visible position, and I expect that I will be in the parliament after the June elections.

Jim Calhoun

I don't want our kids playing the scoreboard because, quite frankly, we won't always be here at the Civic Center. In the second half we matched baskets and we won by five. I don't think we should do that. We should take more pride in what we're doing.

Ma Huateng

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

Eric Maskin

I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fascinating.

Sunder Rajan

None of these things like welfare even entered our minds, ... Whatever we eat, she is going to have her share. Whatever roof we have, she will have.

Russell Feingold

Mr. Chairman, if those items could be entered in the record?

Cardinal Zen

My impression is that they've entered into real talks.

Andrew Patel

The plea that will be entered next Thursday will be 'not guilty'.

Abdul Sattar

I can tell you with full responsibility that the hijackers have not entered Pakistan.

Kim Clijsters

If being the year-end number one was my main goal, I would have entered more tournaments. If it happens, great. If it doesn't, that's not going to make my year worse.

Kofi Annan

New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status.

David Novak

She can do anything she wants in her house, ... But it is a gilded cage.

David Richards

Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900.

William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

William Shakespeare

Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Jim Balsillie

lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.

Arthur Koestler

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Bertrand Russell

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Busy Philipps

Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.

Boris Vian

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Khaya Ngqula

She is a talented individual and we wish her well in her new ventures.

Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Diego Rivera

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

Dennis Lehane

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Tiffany Davis

We're sending a message. Just because we lost to Woodside doesn't mean we're not still ready. Don't underestimate us.

Debbie Pace

Madison never incorporated and didn't get its own government. We don't want to get lost in the shuffle.

Jasmine Guy

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

C. S. Lewis

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

Darcy Tucker

We've said since the time we lost the two Montreal games, we won't quit.

Calvin Coolidge

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

David Brainerd

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

David Brainerd

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

Carlos Gutierrez

We used to try to see what other work we could grab. Now our mission is to be seen as a high-technology plant.

Richard G. Scott

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

Don Brownlee

Much of the science of this mission hasn't been done yet.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Carolyn Porco

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

Bill Taylor

What we're doing now is getting back to its original mission of supporting real New Orleans music and celebrating it.

David Icke

When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give the world away and that is precisely what we have been doing throughout known human history. This is why the few have always controlled the masses.

David Duchovny

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Ben Vereen

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

Barney Frank

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Audrey Tautou

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

Audre Lorde

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

Audre Lorde

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.

Audre Lorde

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Aslan Maskhadov

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

David Ricardo

The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.

David Henry Hwang

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

David Duke

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

David Duke

And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel.

Barney Frank

The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

Atifete Jahjaga

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

David Price

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Frederic Bastiat

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

Dian Fossey

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Jared Diamond

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.