Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all.

Mallory Ortberg

It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

William Story

Man is content to know that he is loved,And tires the constant phrase "I love" to hear;But woman doubts the instrument is brokeUnless she daily hear the sweet refrain.

Susan Bradley

Life is good, but it's not a constant party.

James Cosmo

Losing my teeth didn't impede my acting, but it was a constant worry and meant I was never completely relaxed.

Jim Black

Lorene, like every other member of the House, has to make her own decision as to which leaders she supports. I am constantly talking with members of the House who support me and want to work together on our shared goals, and I will continue to do so.

John Donne

Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.

Source Unknown

LOVE: We think about it, Sing about it, Dream about it && Loose sleep worrying about it. When we don't know we have it, we search for it. When we discover it, we don't know what to do with it. When we have it, we fear loosing it. It is the constant source of pleasure and pain. But we don't know which it will be from one moment to the next. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define && IMPOSSIBLE to live without.

Theresa May

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Susan Howell

I suspect people not planning to come back will not even care. It seems to me the electorate is going to be more upscale and more white than it was, but what the numbers are going to be, who knows?

Rebecca Adams

I think the electorate would love to see those votes beforehand.

Ron Bevacqua

He was put there because he's popular with the electorate. For the most part he does represent the hope for some sort of change. I'm not entirely sure that the electorate wants a lot of change.

Peter Dunne

He wants to put his electorate first and I respect that decision,

Jonathan Dimbleby

I am going to vote for Ken Clarke. For years the wider electorate has told us that Ken Clarke should be the leader of our party and prime minister of our country,

Elaine Kamarck

Our paper is about winning. It's about understanding the electorate well enough to win the presidency.

Rick Thigpen

After 20 controversial years as mayor of the state's largest city, Sharpe James leaves office unknown to a third of the state's electorate and unacceptable to another third.

Kuldip Nayar

They really do not have any new ideas which might make them popular. The electorate now wants a more moderate force which will focus on the economy. Extremism is seen as hindering that.

Samuel Schmid

It's positive, the majority of the Swiss electorate has supported the bilateral path,

Tina Brown

I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news.

Monica Lewinsky

I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it.

Paul Holmgren

Kiel is a big kid and we think there is some potential that has yet to be tapped into. He is a player that our scouting has been enamored with because of his size.

Thaksin Shinawatra

petty, vindictive and not very well-informed autocratic leader who is enamored of his own sense of grandeur.

Kevin Bacon

I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are some of my heroes, and to be in the same room listening to them play or to what they have to say is fun for me.

Skyler Samuels

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

Reese Witherspoon

I just think they have a unique love story, in that they were working side-by-side for 12 years and completely enamored of each other and couldn't be together. It was a really good story.

Robert Brooks

I've not been enamored with the industry in general. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.

Herman Edwards

Some people get enamored with a person's lifestyle,

Will Whitehorn

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

Ted Parrish

Semi stocks won't do anything until we get guidance about estimates for 2004. Otherwise, the stocks will get really overheated.

David Greene

My job is to put out the most conservative estimate and we're hoping to raise somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 between the 16 authors.

Suze Orman

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

Patricia Olson

O ctober 25th, estimated before we'll have power or water or anything,

Gary Samore

No one can estimate with any precision how long this will take,

Russell Sciandra

My estimate is they're going to simply ignore the law and ride it out until the end of the governor's term. And everyone I've talked to seems to feel the same way.

Joe Schaefer

If a tornado went over a row of trees and didn't hit a house, there was no way to estimate the scale.

Jeff Fletcher

When you can understand how much you're using in those areas, you can estimate a calculation of how much greenhouse gas you're emitting.

Hugh Fountain

Last year, we were playing for a region championship. This time we're fighting for our region life.

Stuart Symington

Many were hurting because they have been fighting the flood for so long.

Jim Jacobs

Mike is only 19 years old. Look up the ring records of Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano and see who they were fighting after 10 months. You won't recognize any of the names.

Sandy Hoddinott

Obviously we were hoping to win the 4x800 relay, but three of the four girls were fighting illnesses all week.

Randy Robitaille

No one is going to tell us we're done so we're going to try and keep fighting and try and get as many wins as we can. It's not as much about the wins and losses right now. It's about getting our game to where we want it to be.

Maurice Freeman

No one can say we ever gave up. We fought hard the whole game. If we keep fighting like that, we could be something special, too.

Mariela Carrion

My husband, he was out in Iraq fighting for his country, and he comes back and he gets shot down like an animal.

Sara Schopper

My girls really wanted it. That's why they kept fighting and fighting.

Rod Barajas

Whenever you play teams fighting for the playoffs, good quality teams, you want to try to win series, and we were able to do that here,

John Hill

We are still hovering around $2, which is wonderful.

Maria Semple

Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can't help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Colleen Reitan

What is the total percentage of premium we spent in administrative expense? And we are under 10 percent of the premiums we spend on administrative expense.

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Tyler Bolick

Basically, salaries have stayed the same since I started.

William Petty

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.