Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

Denis Waitley

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

Jim Dean

We had been trying to communicate the cooperative's difference by ourselves, with our own efforts. Aligning with Touchstone Energy gives us new tools for getting that message out. We think that Touchstone offers so much more - ways to involve local business, find potential sites for new industry to locate. Over the next few months, we'll be rolling out Touchstone Energy-related programs that will underscore the benefits of cooperative membership.

Tom Vilsack

We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that's an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we've been preparing in the past.

Tina Brown

Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

Timothy Noah

I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.

Greg Martin

We're confident of the project proceeding and there are considerable intangible benefits to us as a fully fledged project participant.

Sharron Angle

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

Robert Reich

Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs.

Brad Kullman

Wayne said he wanted to bring his own people in. I respect that. He could have moved me down the hall and made my life miserable.

Kiesza

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

Kevin Love

I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That's how I feel approaching every game.

Katharine McPhee

I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.

Keeley Hawes

'Ashes To Ashes' is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It's so much more flattering.

Jane Elliot

I'm not curing cancer or running a small county. I haven't developed a greener car. I just play act. And if I can bring people a moment of fun and relief in their lives, well, that's the win.

Craig Counsell

We had chances. He really struggled with his command and that got his pitch count up pretty fast. But you've got to get that hit that brings in some runs. We just couldn't get it.

Tom Colby

We had a vision to bring this program back to respectability and these kids have done that admirably. They accomplished a lot this year.

George Pataki

When I look at Washington today, we need to bring us together. We need to solve problems, we need to rebuild our military so we can stand up to radical Islam, we need to get our economy growing much faster by throwing out the corrupt tax code and lowering the rates.

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Manish Agarwal

We did not get enough time to negotiate or to make any efforts for his safe return. Everything happened very quickly, giving us very little time to react.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

John Walke

This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple,

Rig Veda

One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Brandy Corbett

She's a good shooter from the outside. We can't focus all of our efforts on the two post players.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

Joe Cheshire

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

Theodore Steinberg

Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

Paul Hefner

This rain tends to give you a false sense of security.

Steve Stanley

No one should have any false hope that the trade gap is going to narrow much or for very long, but at least the speed of the underlying deterioration is less than we thought.

Benjamin Franklin

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Richard Feigen

She isn't hiding in her bunker, and she isn't going out in some sort of false exuberance,

Jerry Parker

My feelings are still that I don't want to give the public a false sense of security by us passing the matrix.

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So leave them plunging into false discourses and sporting until they meet their day which they are threatened with.

Alexandra Paul

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Larry Wachtel

Low-end consumers, the ones that spend every penny of their paycheck, are really hurting with these gasoline prices.

Robert Sinclair

There is a lot of gasoline infrastructure in New Jersey.

Craig Pennington

People will still watch gasoline because of maintenance and subsequent specification changes.

Jose Vicente

If we can sell gasoline to China, India and Latin America, as we have been doing, we will not have a problem.

Pat Fagan

I'd like to give you $100 (in gasoline money) for whoever gives you the buses.

Bill Richardson

The projections that the futures market is making are that you're going to see gradual decreases in gasoline prices,

Joanne Shore

What we don't know is if there will be enough supply at the right place at the right time. There is the potential for regional gasoline supply issues.

Dick DeVos

I think the gasoline tax, the sales tax on gasoline, should be suspended immediately.

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.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Paul Gibson

Like him or not, John Parks has prevailed at every turn.

Stanley Collender

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Emun Elliott

It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.

Joker Phillips

We've seen a different John Logan this week. He practiced like he knew he was going to play, which is good, because we need him.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Kim Gordon

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

Steve Foley

I think we did one of the things we set out to do, and that's try to get on Kerry Collins, get as much pressure as we can, kind of get him out of his rhythm a little bit. We had some success there, so I think that was a big part of our (overall) success.

Bruce DuMont

How you look saying something matters. Kerry has to look warmer, fuzzier, more comfortable and more likable.

Dusty Baker

He likes being with the team and we like having Kerry around,

Bill Richardson

Our objective is to show the personal side of Sen. Kerry -- his character, his Vietnam service, his leadership qualities,

Katie Lowes

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

Jamal Qureshi

Under a Kerry administration we'd likely have a much more interventionist SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) policy,

Amani Toomer

I really loved playing with Kerry and I just respected him a lot as a person, not only as a player.

Mike Wallace

I've known (Democratic presidential nominee John) Kerry for 25 years. He's a patriot. I'm listening to what he has to say,

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Caitlin Moran

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Dear Abbey

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

D. James

I thought well, why not? At least we'll have someone to talk to if we have pain or misery or whatever. Someone that you're comfortable with makes a lot of difference.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Bill Vaughan

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

Stephen Urban

That work (surveying) is still ongoing and I'm awaiting the results, Urban said.

Virginia Kice

We have an open and ongoing investigation so we're not talking a lot about it.

Craig Johnson

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Alan Dershowitz

Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history; that unless we have influence and power, disproportionate to our small numbers - immoral results will occur. We need power. And we must continue to use our power. Power which we earned, power which no one gave us on a silver platter, power which we worked hard for - use that power in the interests of justice.

Tom Mison

I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Courtney Riepenoff

She's small and she's inexperienced . . . but she's feisty.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

With us being really thin at small forward, it's not good. But this time of year, that's usually when it happens.

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

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.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Dennis Kucinich

We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Vandana Shiva

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

Thomas Collins

We are here to support ECOMIL and we want them to succeed.

Jason Chaffetz

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

Janez Drnovsek

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

Ayn Rand

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

David Brooks

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

Arthur Ransome

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Denis Leary

I actually like talking.

Deb Caletti

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

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.