Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Ed Koch

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

J. B. Priestley

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Boman Irani

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

Chico Hamilton

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

David Suzuki

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

Antonio Tabucchi

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Bob Brown

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Bob Inglis

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

Brian Kernighan

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

Elia Kazan

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Bruce Schneier

Privacy is a fundamental human need

Bruce Schneier

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

L. Neil Smith

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

Allyce Najimy

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

Geoffrey Kors

Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.

Rob Varley

We're going after the incentives market, and we're going to be going after the smaller, upscale groups business.

Rory Bremner

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.