Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

Edmund Burke

Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

Kenneth Rexroth

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

William Wilberforce

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I don't think that parliament will find the strength to annul its decision.

Derrick Kellier

I feel satisfied, it has been a long haul. I have been in Parliament since 1989.

Dario Perkins

A split parliament would be the worst-case scenario.

Thomas Jefferson

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

James Otis

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

Mike Nichols

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

Philippe Petit

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Harmon Killebrew

I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.

Action Bronson

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

William Shakespeare

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Ron Dellums

There is nothing wrong with being an honorable lobbyist.

Maurice Maeterlinck

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

William Shakespeare

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

Daniel Goleman

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Benoit Mandelbrot

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

Peter Morici

We're starting to get into the zone where if this persists its problematic,

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Success is when persistence meets preparation.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

James Joyce

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.