Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dingell

We want to see to it that we still have medical decisions being made in favor of and on behalf of the patients, ... This is to see to it that the HMOs are treated the same as anybody else, not given preferential and reverential treatment. That's what the Norwood amendment does.

John Carlson

We are seeing a perfect example of how campaign finance laws are regulating the First Amendment out of existence. The idea that I cannot talk about Initiative 912 in the last two and a half weeks of the campaign, which are the most pivotal, is just outrageous.

Ann Beeson

There are considerable First Amendment issues involved in such a move.

Yasmin Sewell

We stock the world's best jeans, including James and Sass & Bide. Sass & Bide jeans are basic and super-comfortable, but the 18th Amendment jeans have just that little bit more detail; they are slightly more refined. Customers love them.

Niger Innis

The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.

Peter Murphy

What this bill would do is a poison pill amendment to require the school board to approve the existence of a new charter school going forward. So this idea that this is some kind of compromise measure, that it lifts the cap but provides the oversight, is completely misleading. In fact, it's designed to pretend to lift the cap, but in fact, squash any new opportunity going forward.

Jim Peterson

We would welcome the decision to repeal the Byrd amendment. But we strongly maintain that the Byrd amendment should be eliminated immediately. The WTO ruling was clear.

Pat Toomey

Unless and until they actually manage to repeal the First Amendment itself, we are going to find a way to give voice to the tens of thousands of people who share our views and want to have a voice in the political process.

Ritchie McKay

Very emphatically, I never, ever in my 18 years of coaching have forced a young man or demanded or made it mandatory for a young man to attend church, ... I appreciate the ACLU, but to not listen to my bosses and to file a complaint, maybe its mission is to be controversial. Obviously I know the difference between making it mandatory and personal convictions and what the First Amendment says.

Adam Ereli

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Bill Nye

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Justin Glover

We have to focus on paying the claims and looking at the sources we have to do that.

Membathisi Mdladlana

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

Bill Maher

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Gareth Peirce

We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.

Patrick Fearon

We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.

Lanny Breuer

The plaintiff's claims are without merit, as shown by the fact that the entrepreneur-defendants are supported by the expert reports of three former FCC Commissioners, including a former FCC chairman.

Robert Aventajado

We want them to make collective decisions. Otherwise, how can we hold negotiations at all? ... Without them putting their demands in writing, we'll just be confused.

David Crockett

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man

Margaret Chan

New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.

Gretchen Rubin

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

Pat Taylor

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

Mark Norell

We always collect more than we can study.

Dennis Miller

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

Brooke Warrick

We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.

James Calvin

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

Tommy Amaker

We're going to face a team that has played in the tournament and won in the tournament. That's one of the things that is concerning me.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We're in uncharted territory. This is the first time we've seen mass protests concerning the legitimacy of a person who's been elected.

Shimon Peres

When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.

Lajos Kossuth

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

John Whitacre

We are guardedly optimistic concerning our performance over the second half of this year.

Alexei Miller

There are no disputes between Russia and Turkmenistan concerning the price or volumes of the Turkmen gas that we import.

Gary Sheffer

There are discussions going on concerning our proposal submitted on June 14. Part of our proposal is related to GECAS.

Melanie Sloan

I think it's a little too cozy. It's not an uncommon practice, but it is a concerning one.

Joseph Moore

to express our sincerest gratitude to everyone who offered their prayers and support concerning the safe return of Erica.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

William Steere

We want to see how it plays out in the court and how it plays out in the market,

Michael Clarke

The person I heard in the courtroom was not the real Dennis,

Nathaniel Persily

We are at a defining moment. The court is going to decide when political parties go too far in rigging electoral districts for their own advantage.

James Greer

We stress El Camino tradition all the time. It's our job to hold court at home like so many of the past El Camino teams did. EC pride means simply not losing.

Donald Copeland

We spread the court well. Grant, who is an excellent passer, he's able to see over defenses.

William Shakespeare

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

William Shakespeare

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

John Roberts

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

Dennis Nilsen

I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could.

Joe Cheshire

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

Theodore Steinberg

Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.

Richard Feigen

She isn't hiding in her bunker, and she isn't going out in some sort of false exuberance,

Paul Hefner

This rain tends to give you a false sense of security.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

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So leave them plunging into false discourses and sporting until they meet their day which they are threatened with.

Tom Coughlin

The poise in the noise, the false starts we had...That's ridiculous,

Christine Pelosi

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.

Ann Hood

Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

Desiderius Erasmus

Frugality is a handsome income.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

Deborah Smith

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

Dan Ariely

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

David DeLong

Older workers are not as motivated by income but by meaning.

Ed Pastor

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

Plato

When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Albert Einstein

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Bobbi Brown

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.

Dennis Miller

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...

Arthur Golden

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

John the Apostle

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Sharon Stone

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

Bootsy Collins

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

James E. Faust

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Erika Eleniak

I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Richard McLaren

Our discussions have been reasonable. There have been no wild or outlandish threats made.

Mike Cox

discussions have been reasonable. There have been no wild or outlandish threats made.

Nelson Mandela

It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.

Paul Theroux

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Andrew Yaracs

We've become very well-known and through our exposure, we receive a lot of yearly invitations.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Matt Hasselbeck

Miscommunication. Usually, that is a wide receiver running that. I was thinking one thing and Jerramy was thinking another.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Sean Moran

We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co..

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Mike Janko

Upon death, heirs receive a step-up in basis.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Chuck Palahniuk

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

Ambrose Bierce

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Donald Trump

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Kate Michelman

Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.

Philippe Petit

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Gwynne Shotwell

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

Alan Trammel

If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.

Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.