Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

George Seaton

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

Huston Smith

All -isms end up in schisms.

Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

Tibor Kalman

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

M. F. K. Fisher

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Jim Shaw

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

Elizabeth Warren

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Patrick Murphy

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Tommy Lee Jones

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

W. C. Fields

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Karl Rove

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Karl Rove

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Becky G

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

Peter O'Toole

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

Mike Fisher

We played well at all ends of the rink, from the goaltender out.

Tyler Hilton

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

Kelis

The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

Christina Aguilera

In the end you’ll see you won’t stop me.

Alice Sebold

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Ronnie Barker

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

William Sadler

If I have a better idea, I say, 'Can we try one like this?' I try not to step on writers' toes, but ninety-nine percent of the time, it ends up in the movie, and sometimes it's the line that everyone remembers and quotes from the movie.