Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Piatt

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Antonin Scalia

Many times in the campaign I said a few things like that without thinking through the implications of what I was saying.

Ron Bonjean

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

Fred Thompson

Mr. President, I would suggest this is your campaign, ... Much of this money that was raised was for your campaign and for your re-election. This is your White House. This is your Department of Justice, and these are your tapes. And you have a responsibility.

Gifford Miller

My kids are more important to me than my campaign. I'm not going to make it a campaign issue or a campaign promise.

John Podhoretz

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

Brad McKinney

one of our campaign platforms was Boiler pride as well as student outreach.

John Ashcroft

Of course any time you do a good job you have the enhanced capacity to campaign effectively,

David Wade

No other past presidential candidate, with the exception of McCain, has done what Kerry has done in terms of converting his presidential campaign into a grass-roots political and legislative operation. He's dedicated to electing Democrats.

Kristoffer Polaha

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

Jim Greer

Libby played an excellent match. Kelly played hard. Libby just made very few mistakes.

Mike Rodriguez

Sean's a very hard worker. He's excellent on takedowns.

Jack Siedlecki

Mike has picked things up very quickly -- he is an excellent pass blocker, which allows us to keep him in the game in all our one back formations. He is still a work in progress.

Geoff Hoon

Obviously we have seen some excellent work by our police and security services, but that work must continue,

Paul Hartman

Obviously, Williams is an excellent athlete, ... He runs well and passes well. But we feel they have some other kids who are also impressive. So it's not a one man show by any stretch of the imagination.

John Locke

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

P. T. Barnum

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Frank Decker

We had a very nice run down there. We played some excellent teams.

Josh Homme

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

Augie Garrido

Let's not make it anything that it wasn't. I was just hoping he would do what he did. That's all.

David Baker

Last year we had about 160 people. This year, we're hoping for 200.

Jason Williams

Scoring is up around the NHL, so I'm not going to think too much about it. But it's obviously it's a milestone I was hoping to reach.

Tim Nelson

Maybe we did stop something from happening. I was hoping I was wrong, because being right -- we saw what being right was -- 9/11.

Dwight Tankersley

One of the things I'm hoping for next year is that this is a smooth transition.

Paul Giemza

Obviously you're disappointed when you lose to your rival. We're just hoping that our team can rebound (today) and play like we know we're capable.

Michael Hein

No one really wants to step up and tackle this. They're silent on the issue, hoping that it will go away. They're not accountable themselves, but they're enablers.

Alexander Silbiger

One would think that with what little time she had left she would want to do other things. She was hoping to be able to teach this year.

Rig Veda

May the truth protect me in all ways.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Daniele Audetto

We are only trying to protect our investments.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

James McAvoy

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

Greg Myers

No one was quite sure where she landed,

Ichiro Suzuki

If I was satisfied with my performance, I should quit baseball.

Stephen Ryan

From a branding standpoint, they've done something quite important.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money.

Don Braunecker

Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Ed Markey

Cigars are no safe alternative act.

David Bowie

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

Mike Marsden

I do not support a total smoking ban.

Charles Dickens

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Charles Lamb

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Charles Lamb

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

David Hockney

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

David Sedaris

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.