Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Richard Rhodes

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

George Gurdjieff

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Tom Foreman

So many decisions of the Supreme Court have been made in the vacuum as to when life begins ... and it belies the scientific facts, the medical facts, that are out there today,

John Walsh

Men are simple minded. The fact that women can't understand them, begins to show just how complex they are...

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Della Reese

One of the things I learned from Mahalia Jackson was how to communicate with people through song, ... The communication begins inside of you, then it is brought out to the people.

Richard Rogers

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Richard P. Feynman

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Marc Benioff

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.

Mahesh Bhupathi

I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

Manolo Blahnik

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Bob Combs

We're not contemplating any change for our competitions.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Richard Rogers

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.

Roger Sherman

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Marc Morial

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

Major Owens

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.

Jan Johnson

No one can guarantee the environmental effects won't be disastrous. How in good conscience can I pass this problem on to an unsuspecting family?

Barack Obama

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape, ... John Johnson was one of these men.

Wade Henderson

Now that Roberts' nomination has been reported out of committee, we strongly urge senators to vote their conscience and reject his nomination when it reaches the floor. The stakes are too high and the consequences too great to gamble.

Winston Churchill

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Marian Edelman

The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of Georgia, on your administration and on our nation.

Yancey Little

She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a conscience when she's shooting like that.

Marvin Hier

Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust.

Jim Compton

She has an incredible work ethic. She has become this sort of historical conscience of the council,

Bible Bible

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Dave Messing

Mainly, we have to look at the demand in the marketplace and have the right number of seats to meet that.

David Brainerd

Madison Marquette is expanding Festival at Waldorf to meet the community's increasing demand for high quality retail destinations.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

Soichiro Monji

Lenders can make plenty of money as long as there is demand for loans. That's what we are starting to see. Real estate developers are also benefiting as demand increases.

Tracy Mullin

Many retailers are expecting high demand for toys and are recommending that people shop early,

Jerry Starkey

Many communities are refocusing growth back on the urban center. Land is scarce in these locations. High demand drives the price of land through the roof. To be affordable, it forces housing to go vertical. You have a need for 10-, 20- and 30-story high-rises.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Share prices for property stocks are high and it's getting difficult to push them higher. Semiconductor demand is picking up and Japanese chip-related companies, as global players, will benefit.

John Frame

Scripture nowhere divides worship up into a series of independent 'elements', each requiring independent scriptural justification. Scripture nowhere tells us that the regulative principle demands that particular level of specificity, rather than some other.

Hidenori Karaki

Sentiment has not weakened significantly, and there's plenty of demand out there for stocks like Teijin.

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Tom Rath

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

Henry Bonilla

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

Sylvia Browne

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

Sabas Pretelt

We can't wait until it occurs before taking action,

Don Stewart

This kind of thing occurs from time to time in a correctional setting.

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Ludwig von Mises

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Chen Guangbiao

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.