Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shawcross

A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.

Clive Thompson

The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.

Jefri Sirait

The police already began posting some officers here today (Friday) to secure vital company assets.

Robert Carroll

The pillars broke off and ripped through the side of the boat, and literally began tearing out the entire side of the boat where people were standing, waiting to get off, ... We all jumped from our seats and began running for our lives in the middle of all this debris, and people screaming and falling over each other.

Ken Goldstein

The overall Leading Economic Indicators began to edge down in July, suggesting the economy was losing steam this summer and would continue to slow down in the fall.

Anne Sullivan

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

David Rabe

I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.

Noah Feldman

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

Noah Feldman

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Christian Bale

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Mitch McConnell

The politics of tobacco have changed, and changed dramatically for the worse for our tobacco farmers," ()

Brad Coker

The overall leads and sizes of the leads haven't changed all that much, which tells me that, other than real-interested, more-tuned-in voters, the large majority of voters haven't paid all that much attention.

Andrew Gibson

The outsourcing model has changed pretty profoundly over the last three years. Outsourcing today is now viewed in a far more strategic light.

Brooke Smith

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

Bee Wilson

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

Bruce Jackson

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Beeban Kidron

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plautus

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Source Unknown

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

Muhammad

The most excellent jihad (struggle) is that for the conquest of self

Don Martin

That's not going to be an easy conquest for him. He's got a lot of unhappy campers in the trenches.

Gabriel Marcel

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

John Wilmot

And ever since the Conquest have been fools.

Algernon Sidney

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Ben Carson

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Fay Wray

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

Dan Quisenberry

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Rudyard Kipling

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Richard Branson

Virtually every part of the empire will have some form of e-commerce facility by the end of 1999, from the largest company, Virgin Atlantic, to one of the smallest, Virgin Bride.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

George Goncalves

The Empire State report was strong ... and the selling pressures stayed there.

Nostradamus

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bobby Jindal

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

C. J. Mahaney

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

Nikola Tesla

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Trey Parker

That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.

Christopher Koch

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

William Cowper

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Peter Bell

We're lining up the land planning on that site right now.

Angela Ahrendts

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Bible Bible

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

John Milton

Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait

M. Wolfe

Truck traffic was a big problem for people in my ward when the landfill was open,

Ludwig von Mises

In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate end is always to get rid of a condition which is conceived to be deficient-to fulfill a need, to achieve satisfaction, to increase happiness.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Bobby Jindal

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

George MacDonald

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Norman O. Brown

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Larry Hoff

We played well in spurts. I thought our second quarter (20-4) was pretty strong, and we maintained that lead through the end.

Nelson Wolff

We played a quiet role, I think, ... as long as we've got the right leadership there.

Tom Coburn

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Bob Jones

We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Jennifer Marusak

Voting is a right, but it's also a responsibility. The state of Louisiana spent over $2.5 million trying to find everyone and let everyone know what their voting rights are.

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

Victor Shum

Louisiana refineries can process that, but they are shut down.

Kathleen Blanco

Rita has Louisiana in her sights and we must move,

Robert Jackson

Refugees have come up from Louisiana and have located in Quitman County, Coahoma and Tunica,

Robbie Berg

We are urging all residents from south Texas to Louisiana to keep watch.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Tim Wise

Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.

Ira Glass

I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

Louis Tomlinson

For me, Robbie Williams was a massive influence when I was growing up. But also Cheryl Cole. Being in her presence was intimidating, because she's so hot.

Dick Cheney

The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

Dick Cheney

America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction."..."We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems ballistic missiles that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

Paulo Coelho

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Jerry Little

We're kind of set up for mass production, I guess.

Carl Griffith

We could have a massive inundation of Port Arthur.

Peter O'Toole

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Christine Ebersole

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

Meles Zenawi

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

James Howard Kunstler

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Millard Fillmore

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nydia Velazquez

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Paul Ashley

Three years ago, the presidency was his to lose.

Bill Bradley

If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president.

Ricardo Lagos

Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege.

Stephen Hess

The president was still Ike, and the presidency went on.

Orrin Hatch

then I have to tell you I think that this presidency will be over.

Jan Balkenende

Now it's up to the presidency to work on its proposals.

David Gergen

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle.

Gloria Allred

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Jeb Bush

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

Camille Claudel

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Benjamin Franklin

What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.

Daniel Cabrera

We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

John Steinbeck

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

Mark Steyn

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Megyn Kelly

Donald Trump's numbers are historically low for a Republican nominee with women. Historically low.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

John Scott

That's showing the rise in PKA activity, and the drop.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

English Proverbs

When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

English Proverbs

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

English Proverbs

When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.

English Proverbs

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

English Proverbs

When in Rome, live in the Roman way.

English Proverbs

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

William Shakespeare

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

William Shakespeare

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

William Shakespeare

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond...

Etel Adnan

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

Alan Cohen

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

Aerin Lauder

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.

William Shakespeare

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Yao Ming

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

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.

Sofia Vergara

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.