Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Kurt Vonnegut

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

David Elms

Whether through apathy or confusion, the failure to claim these credits is just one way we're needlessly gifting vast sums to the taxman each year.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Bobby Miller

When the people of a nation out of sincere ignorance, conscientious stupidity, and/or apathy cheer and support liars and murderers like Bush and Blair they are breeding contempt for the laws of the land. These people will find themselves, sooner rather than later, surrounded by incomprehensible evil wherever they go. They become more like fish in a barrel than people.

Adrian Cronauer

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Kate Miller

We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has destroyed the beautiful idealism of our youth. The intricate illusions and fearless aspirations. The gleam in a child's eye. God help us. All hope is truly lost.

Haniel Long

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Zoe Trope

No one cares. Apathy is a disease and some days I long for it.

David Dewhurst

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

Bill Richardson

Border fence hasn't worked; border patrols & tech have.

Bill Maher

Mitt Romney, who is on record saying that he would not waste money going after bin Laden, and on record saying he would not violate Pakistan's border to get bin Laden, this week said, 'Of course I would have gotten bin Laden.' Even his Etch-A-Sketch went, seriously?

Natasha Trethewey

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Bela Karolyi

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

Jana Beth

We know how important it is for students to look at material, make inferences and look at the source of the material. Our speaker did a good job of showing how it's necessary to expand the borders of students' learning, but at the same time, be more deliberate in teaching critical thinking skills.

David Wilkins

We're committed to making sure that our borders are secure and our country is safe. Will there be other deportations in the future? I'd be surprised if there's not.

Eric Whitacre

To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it's as if there aren't borders anymore.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Bible Bible

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly.

George Herbert

Folly growes without watering.

Jean de La Fontaine

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]