Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Andrew Jack

I went to Bali for two months and met my wife, and that's how the story started... We had a very simple beginning, selling art on the street.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

John Adams

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Thomas Tryon

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

David Dunkel

Recent accounting-related legislation is having a significant impact at a time when the pool of qualified prospects is declining due to the 150-hour rule instituted by most states. As a result, many hiring managers have more work than they can handle with current staffing levels and cannot find enough capable new hires.

John C. Wright

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Fernando Martin

Real Madrid cannot say it went off to look for him -- but that doesn't mean he doesn't interest us.

Wayne Dyer

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

P. James

Our recruits and officers obviously cannot practice high-speed chases on the streets of Newark. Yet sadly, they do happen, and our officers must train for them. By making use of modern technology, Newark's finest will be able to simulate and train for these incidents.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Gleick

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Terry Ragsdale

Recent labor statistics were already a concern, and another down-leg in consumer confidence seems likely.

Frank Rossi

Our last three games with Hyde have been like this. So this was nothing new. I think we are playing with confidence now.

Paul Ashworth

Such a rapid escalation in prices is sure to hit confidence and real spending hard.

Stephen Bell

Surprisingly, I think our girls have a little more confidence heading into tomorrow's round. The golf course is playing hard and we did not play our best, so to be within striking distance is a positive sign for our team.

Nicole Vaidisova

Sure, I have a little confidence after winning two titles, but everything is new here. It is new balls, a new court and different temperatures. It's very different than Seoul and Tokyo. It was a slow start, but then I got more comfortable in the second set and was able to get the win.

Shaun Pollock

Sport is a confidence game and no doubt a win will give us so much hope for the summer.

Daymond Langkow

Some of the saves he made were very timely saves and that's huge for us. It's nice having the confidence with him back there.

Nick Licari

Our team has shown that we have a lot of poise. We feel confident in what we're doing. That's a big part of this, confidence and maturity.

David Mitchell

Our running game has been struggling, and the key was to try to get on top of these guys early and work the ground game. We wanted to develop some confidence in our running game, which we did tonight.

George H. W. Bush

Out of this despair is going to come a vibrant coast, ... I understand if you're saying to yourself, 'Well, it's hard for me to realize what George W. is saying because I've seen the rubble and I know what has happened to my neighbors.' But I'd like to come back down here in about two years and walk your streets and see how vital this part of the world is going to be.

Bertrand Russell

The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

Chris Carlisle

I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?' I never had that time.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Saint Augustine

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

John Bercow

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

Charles Spurgeon

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

C. S. Lewis

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Alain de Botton

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Joseph Cohen

recession fears are unwarranted for this year and the next.

John Given

Our record won't strike fear into people. But some of our losses have been to some pretty good teams. We're the kind of team that most don't want to see.

Mark Brown

Part of the reason that I watch hockey is to have a physical game, ... Maybe initially they'll fear a penalty, but sometimes it's worth it to get a good lick in.

Asahi Shimbun

Our fears have come true. To regain our trust, the U.S. must fundamentally review its safety standards.

Lutfullah Mashal

Rescue workers are trying to find survivors feared to have been trapped under the ruins.

John Sherry

Physicians told us that not being able to type quickly is a big fear.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Tom Graves

Our 23 million patriots ? our veterans of World War II and Korea ? are rarely recognized other than on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Yet these men and women are as patriotic as those who founded this nation.

Victor Koo

Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

Mohamed ElBaradei

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits

Georg C. Lichtenberg

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Ryan Holmes

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.

Bill Bryson

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

Ben Horowitz

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

Aaron Patzer

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

Michael Carter

Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.

Sitaram Yechury

Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.

Samir Acharya

Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Kathleen Blanco

State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,

Roger Launius

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Takeo Hiranuma

Our task is to make sure the government does not submit the bill.

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Joe Farmer

Our staff has been trained extensively on how to teach students with multiple levels of intelligence in the same class.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

James Woolsey

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Dick Cheney

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Bob Davis

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

Diane Hochevar

It depresses me. It surprises me that the majority would not want to protect a viable unborn child.

Jim Owen

I would say the majority of those are opposed at this point in time,

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Wayne Cornelius

The overwhelming majority would go one way or another.

Michael Stoops

The overwhelming majority of perpetrators are teens and young adults. We need to start with young people in public and private schools.

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Ayn Rand

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Corrie Ten Boom

There is explosive power in virtue.

William Shakespeare

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.