Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Ramstad

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Joan Collins

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

Peter L. Berger

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

Peter Coyote

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

Gustave Flaubert

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Martin Feldstein

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

Mitch McConnell

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

Margaret Sanger

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Paul Gillmor

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

Geraldine Ferraro

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

Mercedes McCambridge

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Penelope Spheeris

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

Penelope Spheeris

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

Penelope Spheeris

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

Mary Astell

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Joseph Addison

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Liane Moriarty

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

Emmy Rossum

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

Scott Adams

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

Tim Bishop

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

Rob Morrow

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

Rod Stewart

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

Winona Ryder

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

William J. Brennan

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Wole Soyinka

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Rosa DeLauro

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.

Victoria Woodhull

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

Rupert Holmes

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.