Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

Joel Berg

Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.

Amanda Sandford

It is appalling the way they deliberately set out to mislead smokers about the toxins in tobacco smoke knowing full well these machine measurements do not reflect how people smoke and therefore how much carbon monoxide and other toxins they are inhaling. We need a major overhaul of the system for measuring toxins in tobacco smoke.

Bram Fischer

Unless this whole intolerable system is changed radically and rapidly, disaster must follow and appalling bloodshed and civil war become inevitable.

Katherine Mansfield

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Karen Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

Herman Gorter

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

Arthur Smith

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree.

Zac Goldsmith

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

Douglas Kmiec

So judges are responsible for abiding by the morality in their own lives, but they are not responsible for imposing that morality in judicial decision-making.

Tracy Kidder

Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.

David Rabe

Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.

Byron Dorgan

No one is taking about imposing new taxes on anyone,

Randall Howard

There's been a credibility problem with management. They've conducted themselves in an arrogant, imposing and unilateral manner.

Josh Keaton

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.

E. P. Thompson

There's nothing a professor likes better than imposing his opinion on as large a number of people as possible.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

David Giuntoli

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

Bill Johnson

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

Benjamin Franklin

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Tina Fey

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

Edward Abbey

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Aristotle

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Lord Shaftesbury

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

Peter Thiel

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

Daniel Snyder

Some of us had to give and take a little more than others, but things have a way of working out. Some of us are contributing a little more than others, but we've been doing that in the past, as well. We just wanted to get this done for the sake of the league.