Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

Gustave Courbet

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

Stuart Scott

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Tim Curry

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

John Petit-Senn

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Marty Meehan

Make no mistake about it, these cleverly disguised provisions will torpedo key disclosure requirements for so-called 'stealth PACS.'

Bob Stern

We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation. People need to know who is influencing the governor on contributions to this -- a trip he's going on.

Bob Stern

We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation,

Gary Sheffer

We disagreed with them that this disclosure was a productive exercise--how would it at all improve the situation on the Hudson?

Paul Hodgson

Transparency is a big problem. Disclosure levels in the United States are not as good as in other parts of the world.

William Higgins

We got what we wanted, ... more disclosure and better understanding.

Mary Osako

Yahoo Hong Kong was not involved in any way in the disclosure of information in Mr Tao's case.

Jeff Davis

We are a grass-roots volunteer organization that has at all times complied with Minnesota registration and disclosure requirements.

Eric Fehrnstrom

Photos are public documents and subject to disclosure upon request.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Peerless Price

Life is funny. It all has come full circle.

William Shakespeare

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Guillermo Coria

Luckily by the end of the match I was able to recover my full speed.

Martin Winterkorn

Last year, we set a sales record. This year we are also going to go full throttle.

Tessa Jowell

Serving a full term doesn't mean leaving office after a year or two.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

James Altucher

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

Jaime Suchlicki

Only those who are doing something illegal should be worried about the U.S. government's actions.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Eugene Brezany

If they see illegal activity, of course, they're going to report it. But we are not law enforcement, and we don't want to be perceived as law enforcement.

Roger Wicker

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Gillian Jacobs

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

E. Hicks

From the farmers' standpoint, they feel they've been there for generations, and they don't like to think they'll be moved out for development.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

James E. Rogers

I have been a resident of Nevada for 52 years. When I moved here, Las Vegas had a little over 22,000 people and Reno was only slightly larger.

Kym Whitley

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

Louis Bolden

Some motorists are moved to tears and others stop to chat.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

Tate Casey

Shannon (Desmond) is just phenomenal. When it's a big game, she seems to step up and get it done for us.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Marc Chouinard

I don't know who did the schedule, but he seems to stick them in when we're on a roll.

Carson McCullers

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

Nathan Barankin

a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.