Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

Bill Maher

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

Vladimir Putin

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

Shinzo Abe

China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.

Eduardo Paes

There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the authoritarian style of the dead communist experience. It seems that it is no longer society's obligation to understand legislation; it is a duty for governments to be understood by their people.

Anand Gopal

After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.

Charlie Chaplin

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

Elliott Abrams

At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.

Bill Gates

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

Paul Robeson

What do you mean by the Communist Party? As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

John Gordon

Make sure you smile and laugh tonight because that's what Kirby would want, and that's why we loved him.

Drew Brees

Me and Gates, we laughed in the weight room today because that wasn't our 'A' game,

Shannon Kleibrink

One of those things we'll be able to laugh about in 20 years.

Jean Richter

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much

Jean Paul

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Amy Johnson

One would think it'd be uncomfortable for the guys, but the more they make us laugh the better.

Charles Spurgeon

An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

Diane Johnson

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Diane Lane

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Diane Lane

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

Edgar Allan Poe

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Peter Tolan

I did a scene and he started laughing and said he'd seen everything he needed to see.

David Nicholls

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

Abraham Lincoln

Too big to cry too young to laugh...

Ryan Gosling

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

William Shakespeare

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Jay Taylor

Everything was pretty slow, which is fine. We want to stand in solidarity on the issue.

Jose Bergamin

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Martin Schulz

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

Pope Francis

We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.