Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sven Eriksson

Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

Jill Paton Walsh

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

Shyam Selvadurai

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

John Blackman

I think some of our older kids aren't being good examples to the younger kids.

Joseph Yam

one of the rare examples of a smooth change.

R. Robinson

I don't know why this lady would do it (make false statements), but there are examples of it all the time in our state, country....

Mark Fuhrman

Now those are the two--two examples -- pimps, three. They're your third... probably the three most worthless type people in a large city.

Robert Cecil

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Mikko Hypponen

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Stewart Cink

No, ... But I'll probably tell him at the Presidents Cup. He won't remember that, so me telling him that would be sort of anticlimactic.

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Berry Gordy

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

BeBe Winans

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

Monica Crowley

Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

Fred McClure

All presidents religiously protect that part of the process.

Helen Thomas

Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.

Jill Lepore

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.