Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die

Alan Winter

Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious.

Joel Hirschhorn

Sprawl is killing people, some 300,000 premature deaths annually because of the sprawl sedentary lifestyle, and it is killing our natural environment, scenic vistas, biodiversity, rural towns and much more.

Bill Gates

Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.

Slobodan Milosevic

Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,

Sue Miller

Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.

William Butler Yeats

Others because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I meet your face.

Pam McCoy

I'm here to support the May family. It has nothing to do with the death penalty." ()

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

Benjamin Rush

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Calvin Coolidge

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Abraham Lincoln

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Aristotle

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Alexander Hamilton

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

David Letterman

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

Albert Camus

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

Alison Davis

Just give us the directions. I promise we'll show up.

Nancy Lee

That's the promise of XML, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Russ Jewett

I don't know about his status for this weekend, but I can promise he won't be triple jumping.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

B. R. Hayden

I think it has real promise as long as there isn't some unexpected safety issue.

Brian Wallace

It is all about a fulfillment of a promise that was made,

Carl Jung

Didn't I promise I'd always look after you and keep you from harm?