Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Jeff Southard

We're not going to be able to get away with throwing $200 million or $300 million at this and declaring victory and moving on.

Michael Defensor

The president will sign a proclamation declaring a state of emergency.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

Graeme Smith

We contemplated declaring behind, but we also felt that they should have contemplated declaring a little earlier, given we were in the box-seat in terms of the series.

Bill Keller

it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad.

Ian Smith

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Frances Beinecke

Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.

Desmond Lachman

This plays very well politically in those countries. Prepaying the IMF is declaring independence.

Edward Gibbon

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

Benjamin Franklin

The States acceded to the Union.

Carol Vorderman

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Lutfi Haziri

We want to resolve the status as soon as possible. Independence is coming.

Ayn Rand

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

Ayn Rand

The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

Carla Bruni

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Karen Morgan

We won't get independence this time, but we are on our way.

Arthur Schopenhauer

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.