Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Diane Lane

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Dennis Quaid

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

Dennis Prager

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

Deepak Chopra

You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

David Nicholls

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

Abraham Lincoln

Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Ludwig von Mises

In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.

Ludwig von Mises

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

Matthew Prior

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Elizabeth Emken

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

James Woods

I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat.

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Bill Nighy

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Bruce Feiler

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

Bruce Kovner

The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout

Benjamin Graham

No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

Gayle Lynds

Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.