Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Jeff Southard

We're not going to be able to get away with throwing $200 million or $300 million at this and declaring victory and moving on.

Michael Defensor

The president will sign a proclamation declaring a state of emergency.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

Graeme Smith

We contemplated declaring behind, but we also felt that they should have contemplated declaring a little earlier, given we were in the box-seat in terms of the series.

Bill Keller

it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad.

Ian Smith

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Frances Beinecke

Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.

Desmond Lachman

This plays very well politically in those countries. Prepaying the IMF is declaring independence.

John Cross

There are dozens of ways one can go about managing his or her career,

Jen Bluestein

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

John Cannon

He fired dozens of rounds. It's a miracle no one was shot.

Steven Hall

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.

David Marin

Listed literally dozens of things (the administration) did wrong. He acknowledged more institutional failings at the White House and elsewhere than we expected.

Paul Wick

You'll see a lot of stocks take it on the chin. It's happening to dozens of Internet companies.

Phil Williams

We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names.

John Montgomery

Numerous people were interviewed and dozens of leads were investigated,

Ehud Barak

maybe there will be a need for a few dozens of foreign observers.

Chris Coleman

When the incumbent mayor loses a primary by a 2-to-1 margin, it's a referendum on his performance. It has nothing to do with party loyalty. It's about value and judgment.

Margaret Kenski

She uses every opportunity an incumbent has in a way I have not seen around here. When a problem comes up, like the (military-base closures) issue, she presents a positive image.

Michael Dimock

I think any incumbent has room to worry.

Councilman Okino

I think if we override, it's incumbent on us to say where we're going to go. We can't keep throwing it back to him; that's irresponsible.

David Montgomery

We have an incumbent manager who has performed well,

John Brennan

With 77 million Americans invested in mutual funds, it is incumbent upon the industry to make sure we are doing everything we can to protect shareholder interests,

Mark Birkhauser

It's always incumbent on the shooter to make sure that he's shooting into a safe area.

Alan Abramowitz

As long as you have an incumbent running, you're not going to have a competitive race.

Bob Samson

This is the first time we're working together ... on interoperability. It really is incumbent upon us in the industry to work together on these interoperability issues.

David Mitchell

Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,

Deepak Chopra

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

Viviane Reding

We have no intention to regulate the internet,

Meir Sheetrit

We have no intention of starving the Palestinian people.

Nick Saban

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

Marty Dickens

We have no intention of leaving this building.

Moshe Sharett

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.

Geno Auriemma

She wasn't that thrilled to play. When I took her out, I had no intention of putting her back in. But all that went out the window in the second half.

Deepak Chopra

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Al Michaels

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

Chloe Sevigny

The media loves negative spin.

Dhani Harrison

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

Dave Barry

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Dave Barry

Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.

David Talbot

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

David Sanborn

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

David Puttnam

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

David Puttnam

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Christopher Shays

Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,

Edward Seaga

I think the reception that the queen has received says something different than what the prime minister is saying.

Chamlong Srimuang

Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.

Will Ferrell

Whom does the prime minister prefer? Tinky Winkey, Dipsy, Po, or La-La?

Jens Stoltenberg

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Suranand Vejjajiva

When the prime minister sold his shares, people didn't understand it was a private matter. We were quite off-message at first.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Uzi Landau

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.

Andy Stanley

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

Albert Camus

With rebellion, awareness is born

Francis Bacon

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

George Eliot

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

H. Rap Brown

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Henry David Thoreau

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

Milan Kundera

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Henry David Thoreau

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

Pierre Corneille

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.