Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis de Tocqueville

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

James Agee

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

Gary Oldman

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

George Orwell

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

Kay Thompson

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Hilaire Belloc

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

Sheila Ballantyne

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

Nina Daniels

People just have to have an open mind and a better understanding of the sport. People don't really understand it, and how it works.

Gitte Lindgaard

People make up their mind very, very quickly about how much they like what they see.

Jon Gruden

Some of those runs you will never forget. And you may never see them again. Those are the one where you say 'Oh, my God! Oh, my God!' They are runs etched in your mind forever.

Chris Martin

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing... and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Allan Ray

That comes with experience. We've been through this. We know we can come back if we put our mind to it.

B. R. Ambedkar

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence

B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

B. F. Skinner

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

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.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.