Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Hawkins

No one should be fooled into believing that the slight improvement relative to July indicates a change in trend. Any growth came from heavy discounting, which is not sustainable - especially as retailers' margins are already being squeezed by rising labour, property and energy costs. The underlying position is still weak and unlikely to improve unless and until there are further cuts in interest rates.

Stuart Higgins

We were conned by cunning fraudsters into believing that two people frolicking together on a poor quality film were the Princess of Wales and her former lover James Hewitt.

Leila Janah

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.

Marc Falcone

I have a hard time believing they would turn away if the project were to come in at, say $1.3 billion.

Kathleen Sullivan

I have a hard time believing they didn't discuss this.

Joe Kraus

I have a hard time believing that they can buy a company with 2,000 people and make it work. The notion of buying a gigantic company with a lot of cash is a very risky proposition.

Gilles Bisson

I have a hard time believing (police) just did it on their own.

Carlos Fuentes

She's just a dynamic performer. She was unsure if she could still do gymnastics like she used to. This year, I think she's started believing that she can.

Tiffany Tootle

She hasn't had a surgery; we haven't changed the size of the ball; we haven't decreased the distance from the plate to the rubber. It's just been about faith and believing in what she could do.

Marlo Thomas

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to man, but that you treat yourself equally the way you treat a man

Benjamin Franklin

Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep

Ludwig von Mises

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

Timothy Noah

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Dennis Prager

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Abraham Lincoln

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Carl Schmid

Basically, it said, 'we support non-discrimination, and equality for all' -- except for gay people.

Robert Aventajado

If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.

Frances Mayes

When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

Laura Anne Gilman

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

Kai Bird

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

Robert M. La Follette

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Eric Cantor

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Ireland Baldwin

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

Robert Bonner

Those who insist that marijuana has medical uses would serve society better by promoting or sponsoring more legitimate research,

Meg Tilly

I have a lot of male friends. That's good. But that's all I want right now. Keep that sort of thing away from me.

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

Sigourney Weaver

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

Banksy

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Olly Murs

To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

Miguel Rosario

Three males ran from the scene of the hit-and-run on the night it happened. We're working with two witnesses, so we have the three males that were running identified.

Jim Tharp

We needed more romantic-minded males to show up this weekend.

Bryan White

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Catherine Hardwicke

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Edward Everett

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Marcus Aurelius

He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse

Donald Glover

I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

Denis Leary

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nuture.

Zab Judah

Just don't trash-talk then refuse to sign a contract, ... That's disrespectful.

Don Moreland

I thought Walker just stepped up and (turned on his game) in the second half, just refuse to lose.