Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Denis Healey

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

Elena Kagan

My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

Edward Heath

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified

Dominique de Villepin

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

Edward Zwick

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

Abdullah Abdullah

I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .

Abraham Lincoln

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Abraham Lincoln

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

Kara Walker

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Jane Austen

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Creed Bratton

The Taliban is the worst...great heroin though.

Jesmyn Ward

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Ozzy Osbourne

I tried heroin once and I didn't like it. It frightened me.

Khaled Hosseini

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

William Ohlemeyer

Mrs. Whiteley never smoked a pack of cigarettes that didn't have a health warning on it that was written by the surgeon general.

Dan Becker

Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.

Peter Fisher

Since 2001, we've had 42 states increase their cigarette taxes.

Arturo Toscanini

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

Luis Gutierrez

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

Matt Myers

Today, they spend far more money plastering convenience stores with their imagery, paying convenience store owners to put cigarettes near where kids will see them.

Augusten Burroughs

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

Conrad Veidt

I am indifferent if my spinach is leaf or creamed; if I work to fatiguing point or spend days doing nothing; if I smoke fifty cigarettes a day or none at all; if it rains or shines; if the dentist hurts, or the shoe pinches, or I secure a bargain.

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