Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Taze Russell

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Nandan Nilekani

We're going to showcase the arrival of the global Indian entrepreneur.

Alexander Yakovlev

We were in an open field waiting for the arrival of an official, ... We discussed everything, we interrupted each other and said, 'That thing must be changed and that one's intolerable ... everything's intolerable.'

Stephane Simean

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.

Bob Muglia

We've spent some time talking to Independent Software Vendors recently and the software community welcomes the arrival of a consistent environment to this area.

B. Trudeau

Since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.

John M. Smith

Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion; which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.

Carol Marlow

Our guests, when they arrive on board, they are going to see that. When they depart, they are going to see it, so there is no detraction for the arrival or departure here coming into Brooklyn.

Ian Harnett

Part of this is political posturing. But what companies are realizing is that arrival of the euro is making German corporate costs structures increasingly uncompetitive.

Marion Oettinger

We need something as mundane as a loading dock. We need to prepare, for example, for the arrival of the river, which is going to be transformative.

Dave Kiser

We knew they may have a little trouble because of the lack of a background in here. Our girls have played here, obviously, and I've coached here before quite a few times. Perimeter shooting teams tend to struggle in here.

Sylvia Hamilton

We know what the technological capabilities are at this point, but we need more information with regard to what the background level actually was before the contamination. The more information we have, the better case we can present and the less likely it is we will end up in court.

Kevin Burke

We are pleased to welcome Fred to our board and look forward to benefiting from his knowledge and experience. Fred's global view as well as his background in finance will prove invaluable to the company.

Lesli Linka Glatter

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

Noel Wells

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

Bill Scott

We've understood throughout the project that we cannot portray them as coming from a lifting-yourselves-by-the-bootstraps background with no resources. We do not want to portray them as coming from humble backgrounds.

Bill Clayton

We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue the growth of the museum or else it is going to dissolve, ... As we work to build a new funding base, having an executive director with a different background will help us to make that possible.

Wayne Rosso

We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it.

Rachel Tucker

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Alan Greenspan

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Alan Greenspan

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Jamie Shea

We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.

James Hood

We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state.

Andrew Golden

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

Pat Keliher

We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time.

Lesa Cagle

We know we need to eat healthier. We know we need to exercise more, but how do we do that? I think when people think about health, they want to have more energy. When you see the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, sometimes that can be motivating.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

O. Henry

We know we cannot win this long war by ourselves.

Bill Womack

Walk-in box, $2,200 to fix it. Ice maker cannot be repaired. It's too old. There are no parts for it.

Louis Bacon

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

Michel Onfray

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Morgan Wootten

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise

Andrew Grossman

Unprecedented in its size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad of problems Wal-Mart creates, ... Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen.

Eric Anderson

We are going to show the world that private citizens can complete the training and the qualification necessary to execute such flights,

Cheryl Johnson

We are a very rural county. Our hands were just tied. Now citizens have a recourse.

Joe Sinagra

We are at sea in a sinking ship, our citizens are treading water to stay afloat, and now New Jersey government wants their life jackets.

Edward Gibbon

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

Dick Durbin

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

Edward Snowden

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Desiderius Erasmus

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Len Traubman

We have no illusions about what somebody like Sharon or any government professional can do without citizens deepening and expanding this public peace process of human relationships.

Stephen Baker

The powerful collaboration of industry leaders HP and AMD continues to yield successful results, as demonstrated by the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC. With its rich feature set and distinctive branding, this notebook has proven to be extremely popular throughout the North American retail market.

Joe Donzelli

We are a district that's growing by leaps and bounds. Not that our administration is growing a lot, but we'll need room as the district continues to grow.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Peter Cardillo

There is no question that the State of the Union message last night was very strong and very positive. Obviously the economy continues to do very well. Inflation is low and interest rates are still very low.

Joe Schwieterman

United had suggested that it was on a glide path to emerging from bankruptcy. This suggests there is more turbulence ahead. This continues to dog United.

Scott Baugh

We're ready to get after it. We have had great weather in January and February. I hope it continues like that in March.

Rodell Mollineau

The fact is that per-capita income in Iowa continues to grow.

Parris Glendening

The fact is, if water consumption continues at the current rate, there is only a 35-day supply in these reservoirs.

Michael Carty

There are a lot of good things happening right now, but the market continues to focus on Iraq, interest rates, the presidential election, and particularly right now, the high-profile earnings misses.

Joe Crawford

We felt it was important to make that move from a position of strength, when we could pick our partners, ... We feel the companies' cultures mesh well.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

Desarae Garland

I expected a lot of parties, different cultures and seeing people sticking with others from their hometown.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Brian Sewell

Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied,

Jan Wright

I think he gives us a little window into what it took to be a pioneer in terms of the material cultures and the thought processes that went into voting and where he gave his business.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Desiree Manuel

For example, one student put together a drumming group to show how different cultures drum.

M.I.A.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Dave Penry

There are only enough workers if we look to the immigrant population, and we want legal immigrants.

Ken Simonson

If a substantial percentage of the immigrants took the day away from work, that would have a noticeable impact on construction.

Frank Sharry

But even if we win today, it's only one step. Immigrants pay a lot in taxes and don't get a lot back.

Angelo Amador

If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.

Ted Cruz

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

Joshua Hoyt

We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant rights movement.

Ali Noorani

It's not just immigrant rights that are at stake anymore, it's all citizens' rights that are at stake.

Gordon Fowler

Part of their problems might be because of lax controls.

Colin Campbell

But this is going to stay for a while. We can't get lax this time.

Arjun Makhijani

be the most lax standards for a repository in the world.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Edna Ferber

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Anton Chekhov

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Antonio Gramsci

Every State is a dictatorship.

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Alberto Fujimori

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have terrorism.

Condoleezza Rice

We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

Newt Gingrich

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

Noam Chomsky

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

Kellyanne Conway

The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know what has happened. They know there's home-grown terrorism here.

Mohsin Hamid

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.