Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Trout

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Studs Terkel

So here we are. We have a choice to make.

Jane Mayer

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

Tony Snow

Millions of Americans annually commit themselves to such good works, and no country on earth comes close to matching our record.

Kin Hubbard

Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

Michael Isikoff

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

Jeff Gannon

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Oliver J. Lodge

Mediums have perhaps but little conscious information to give us concerning their powers; we must learn from what they do, not from what they say.

Jerry Pournelle

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?

Samuel Coleridge

Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still

Kathy Griffin

Look, you guys, I know I'm not Courteney Cox. But I'm telling you, the house is better than me. They were like, 'I don't think so.'

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" life. Me around the house is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" dad.

Waris Ahluwalia

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

Derek Ambrose

My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.

Jamie Wyeth

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

John Tesh

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Meg Mallon

I don't even look at it as a proper score.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Louis Post

The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

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.

Rick Warren

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Pete Domenici

My constituents, and actually most Americans, think that somebody rigs these prices. That in the process, somebody's getting ripped off, and they think it's them.

Andrea White

She said, 'Should I try to do the splits?' and I said 'Yeah!' and she ripped her pants!

Samantha Fox

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

Mark Dindal

Just ripped the Band-Aid off. He's kind of like that.

Terry Bradshaw

I ripped that. Is it the same spot?

Alice Temperley

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

Lloyd Smith

I just feel like I'm getting ripped off by Rockingham County.

Chris Evans

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

Diane Kruger

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

Dennis Prager

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

Dean Kamen

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

Alan Cohen

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

Charles de Lint

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Charles Stewart Parnell

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

David D. Burns

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

Cesar Romero

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Alexander Smith

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

David Hume

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

David Icke

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

Elie Wiesel

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Alfred Nobel

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Conor McPherson

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

C. S. Lewis

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Bill Vaughan

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

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