Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Demosthenes

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Ben Jonson

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

Che Guevara

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Will Durant

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Charles Colson

The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.

Dan Buenning

Maybe we're just too dumb to know we shouldn't be doing this. And we really don't care.

Turkish Proverb

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb

John Kosmina

When you concede dumb goals, you've usually got to pay a price.

Jerry Coleman

I don't feel quite as dumb as they make me look,

Clint Eastwood

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Walter Benjamin

If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk

Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Ed Schultz

If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

Charlaine Harris

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Basil Bunting

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Edward Heath

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Mike Quigley

I wouldn't have run lines nearly as much as I did if it weren't for Jamie.

Takashi Kamiya

Shipping lines are in for a tough time.

Josh Blaisdell

Since we did skate three lines and got production from three lines, it made everyone feel better. As a team, we are as strong as we have ever been.

Balthazar Getty

Tired of Being Sorry' is one of the lines everyone can relate to.