Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

William Pepper

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Wesley Clark

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Van Morrison

I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Billy Graham

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Jill Lepore

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.

Cornelius Nepos

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Howard Coble

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

Jodi Fincher

When we first got to him, with his color, we feared he might not make it.

Lord Byron

All is to be feared where all is to be lost

Lutfullah Mashal

Rescue workers are trying to find survivors feared to have been trapped under the ruins.

Simon Wiesenthal

We thought we were going mad, ... Perhaps we feared (or hoped) we were mad already.

James Douglas

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh

Chip Rogers

I would regularly hear from blue-collar workers who feared losing their jobs because they didn't speak Spanish.

Spanish Proverb

He who is feared gets more than his own.

Donald Trump

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Mike Farrell

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

Nathan Lane

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

Mary Wilson Little

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Allyn Rachel

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

Bob Edwards

We've been getting questions about them, mostly from people who worry we're wasting money. But in the long run, I think the new signs will be cheaper.

Paul Goodwin

We're really not doing much different. Mostly we're doing a lot of nutrition stuff, trying to stay off caffeine.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

David Gilmour

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

B. F. Skinner

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Voltaire

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Cher

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Erwin McManus

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

Henry IV

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

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

Edward Gibbon

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Arthur Keith

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

George Catlin

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

Jill Tarter

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

Sean Connery

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

Martin Van Buren

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Ian McDonald

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

Peter Singer

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

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.