Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Skousen

Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.

Kirk Cameron

Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.

Eduardo Galeano

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.

Jim Hanson

When I met with (Adam's) father (Wednesday) evening ... the first words out of his father's mouth were, (Adam) was so proud to be working for you guys,' ... Adam really did radiate that.

Paul Retherford

One of the things that Adam gives us is explosive quickness. He can get into the gap and win balls, then make it past a few guys so quickly.

Reggie Campbell

One of Colorado State's big safeties said before the game that if they stopped Adam (Ballard) and Lamar (Owens), then they'd win the game. I think I knew right then that I would be getting more touches. I just didn't know it would turn into a game of that magnitude.

Ellie Goulding

My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.

Mark Few

Simple. They're shooting 36 threes and we're driving the ball with Batista, Mallon, Adam and the other guys.

Ben Watson

Whenever we go out there at the end with Tom, we know we've got a chance to get in field goal range. And Adam doesn't miss many.

Steve Tanner

We actually didn't lose a game in the summer league against the Maryland teams. That kind of got our confidence up. That gives me chance to try people out in different places.

Aaron Huffman

Waynesburg is a solid team. I don't want to jinx it, but it seems we always play well against them.

Chris Coleman

Wayne is still not fully fit. But he's only going to get better. I was pleased with his performance against West Ham in the last game and he will get fitter and stronger as he goes on. He'll be back in the squad for the World Cup.

Doug Herzog

We always hold out hope against hope. We would very much relish the opportunity to be back in real business with Dave.

Jim Elliott

We always do well against Newman. We're a little young, but I think we're going to be able to hold their own the rest of this season.

Felipe Roque

We always considered and continue to consider the Pope a friend, who fought against poverty, neo-liberalism and for peace. We will also always remember his words against the U.S. economic embargo that our people suffer,

Stephen Decatur

We always come out against Washington with a mental block anyway,

David Hall

We also will continue to partner with the Pistons to do a great deal of work in the community. Rock Financial has given away nearly 20,000 tickets to area youth organizations in the past two years and we'll do that again this year. Many of the young people that receive tickets might not otherwise have an opportunity to attend a professional basketball game.

Rich Dalrymple

We also wanted to have it during a big game against a tradition rival like the Redskins.

Blake Mycoskie

The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

Jennifer Warnes

The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

Rich Yamarone

When you put all these little pieces together, you get a bigger drag, and that's what's taking the toll. It's the culmination of all these little things.

Tullian Tchividjian

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

Gina Martin

We're consistently breaking records with this report, and just about every month is bigger than expected, so I don't think there's any great change to the story.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Everything we can think of that should have a processor, and they'll all be connected. People talk about fridges re-ordering when you run out of milk, but it's going to be much bigger than that. The transition to this world will require a huge number of applications to be developed, and that's a huge opportunity for Infosys.

Robbie Earl

Like coach (Mike Eaves) said, the season's not over. We've got bigger accomplishments to seize in the next couple of weeks.

Gilbert Arenas

Lute Olson teaches the NBA system. If you look at his players, they may not be dominant in college but they're going to make a bigger impact in the NBA just because of the way they play up and down. Players learn and develop and make mistakes and learn for themselves.

Ken Worthington

Lehman is the winner so far this quarter. Lehman has a bigger fixed income business proportional to the size of the company.

Mark Swartzberg

looks excessive for the right to own a loss-making, share-losing business.

Kate Smith

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

John McCarthy

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Jose Luis

On a number of occasions, military operations which involved excessive use of force and other violations, haven't necessarily been addressed,

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Hosni Mubarak

heedlessness of all values and laws and its excessive rejection of peace and challenging the world.

Sara Barwinski

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Edmund Phelps

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Cindy Sheehan

I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.

Terry Francl

When the Midwest harvest gets into full swing and whether they'll be able to handle grain shipments then, that's going to be the true test.

Scottish Proverb

When the heart is full the tongue will speak

Todd Rundgren

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.

Kevin Mitnick

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

Skip Colcord

We're looking at the full gamut of alternatives.

Rob Manuel

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Donald Selkin

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

Carl von Clausewitz

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Brian Ellis

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.

Jane Reynolds

We have higher standards for teachers. We should have higher standards for teachers.

Craig Brown

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

William Blake

I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and that loves me;I've all but riches bodily.

Greta Garbo

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Heinrich Boll

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

Gail Kelly

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

John Collins

We were very close, and we shared each others' joys and sorrows.

Greg Evans

What of this world but joys and sorrows.

Alice Sebold

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Phil Gramm

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.

Hugh Fountain

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

Tyler Perry

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Elizabeth Wilson

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

Eric Carr

We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'

Scott Howell

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

Ashwin Sanghi

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Phil Anderton

We have kept in touch since then and he is somebody we respect for obvious reasons.

Leta Fickes

She has kept in touch with me ever since.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Johann Lamont

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Michael McCaul

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Susan Borelly

It is not the way we wanted to do this, but we don?t know how else to get these policies changed.

Wesley Clark

I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Al Gore

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Jonathan Frenkel

Legislation or regulation may not be a solution in all cases, but it may be warranted in appropriate circumstances.

Bob Corker

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Carlos Ghosn

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Jamie Dimon

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Alan Greenspan

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Mike Port

There is no regulation or requirement that they say something. Some of them do, but he's not wrong if he doesn't use it.

Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Laura Wade

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Arthur Koestler

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

Arthur Koestler

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Donald Trump

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Donald Trump

We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

Barry Diller

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

Audre Lorde

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

Alain de Botton

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

Al Franken

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

Charles R. Swindoll

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Charles R. Swindoll

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

Bill Hybels

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Bill Hybels

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.

Charles Comiskey

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Jesper Parnevik

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.