Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to raze that prison,

Yvonne Johnson

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

George Dacy

My tomatoes taste like tomatoes used to taste, ought to taste and still do taste.

Dan Miller

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

Ruth Rendell

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Charles de Gaulle

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Charles de Gaulle

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Charles Dickens

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Charles Dickens

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

Charles Dickens

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Caleb Colton

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Marco Rubio

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

David A. Siegel

I can't tell anyone to vote.

David R. Brower

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Eazy-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Bill Nye

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

Bill O'Reilly

Millions of Americans have already convicted Mrs. Clinton on many, many things. They will never vote for her.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Lindsey Graham

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

Bill Maher

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Bob Packwood

I don't trade my vote for money.