Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Alan Alda

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Yoshinori Ono

We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.

G. H. Hardy

We knew they were big, but we felt we were more athletic. They did everything I could have asked for.

John Rehrauer

We know we're going to have problems unless we get a really good rain. We've had a lot of grass fires, so we are really asking people to show some restraint.

Jennifer Holder

We know we have workers on Medicaid. We're trying to improve that. We're asking the state to help us improve that, but we're not getting any answers.

Rob Blake

We know he's very talented. We're asking a lot of him, but he's up to the task.

Yvette Salazar

We know he isn't a transit-friendly, labor friendly governor. I hope he hears the public and passengers out there. We will continue to ask him.

Harold Cowart

When I was around them, they'd ask if we had any of that Louisiana music. You've got the some of the best music in the world right here in Louisiana.

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Greg Nickels

The people of Seattle know I'm a mayor willing to make tough decisions.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Marianne Bichsel

I will say the mayor was very disappointed.

Jerrold Nadler

I don't think she's pandering. She's saying what she believes. I don't think she's pandering any more than the mayor could be said to have been pandering when he said the same thing.

Charlie Morris

He is a mayor for all the people.

Gregg Harris

He is the only mayor that ever sent pink slips to cops.

David Gudgel

It is my opinion that most probably I will be getting a recommendation from my mayor pro tem (today),

Charles Spurgeon

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Chogyam Trungpa

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

Darren Shan

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Caitlin Flanagan

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Nobuyuki Oneda

We are seeing a steady recovery path in the electronics segment.

Diana Nyad

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

Arianna Huffington

Don't just climb the ladder, chart a new path.

Demi Lovato

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Jack Germond

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.