Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Howard Kunstler

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

William Price

Lunatic Wind: Surviving out the Storm of the Century

Karl Evanzz

Muhammad himself fostered this idea and, for years, tried to convince his family that he, Elijah of Gilead, and the 7th century prophet Muhammad were one and the same.

Shinzo Abe

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

Octavio Paz

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Twyla Tharp

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Keith Burns

From salt-and-pepper shakers made for some nondescript little comedy from the 1940s, to important pieces from important features of today, all exist at Ellis. It's hard to imagine any important film from the last century that some item from that film is not in some way here at Ellis.

James Allen

One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives,

Stephen Kinzer

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.

Mahmoud Abbas

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

French Proverb

Life is an onion and one peels it crying

Noel Gallagher

Liam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.

Denny Green

Leonard was very sick all morning. He got IVs and the doctor made a judgment that he could play. Leonard made a judgment that he wanted to play, and then we played. When it's over, we don't make excuses. We don't make alibis and we really don't cry about it. We move on.

Danny Garcia

My kids are very traumatized now. They were screaming and crying in the kitchen,

Jodie Sweetin

Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!

E. P. Thompson

One timely cry of warning can save nine of surprise.

Rachel Zoe

My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.

Atharva Veda

My ears do not hear, and my eyes are not beautiful. I am in such pain; I am a poor cripple, crying at Your Door.

Steve Spurrier

Let's just go play the game, ... and let the players decide who wins it. That's what we should all focus on this week.

Cy Thannikary

Legislators failed. We decided to take the process out of Trenton. If we leave it to legislators, it will never happen.

Abdullah A. Badawi

Let them decide how long they will take to finish.

Lee Miller

Last year was the first year we did this. We started talking about it four years ago, ... Last year, we decided to head it up and make it a project.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Ryan Martin

Last year, when I was trying to decide where to go, that was one of my main things -- going to the NCAA Tournament. That's something I wanted to do since I was 3 or 4 years old.

Brad Soderberg

Last year, we played 12 games that were decided in the last 90 seconds, and we lost 11 of 12. If we win a game when we're not playing well, it's a step in the right direction.

Frank Guzzetta

Many of our guests have expressed a need for more time to decided if their purchases are right for themselves or their gift recipients.

Raekwon

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Gerhard Schroeder

We Germans know from our own experience that dictators can sometimes only be stopped with force.

Naomi Wolf

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Bill Kristol

Surely the United States should do what it can to prevent dictators elsewhere from inferring that repression works.

Rand Paul

I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

Dave Brat

If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.

Kenneth Roth

When Western governments try to use economic pressure to secure human rights improvements, China's no-strings rule gives dictators the means to resist.

Dave Harter

We're not just trying to be dictators of taste.

E. Helm

to sacrifice Taiwan's security in order to appease the dictators in Beijing.

Gerald McKelvey

Many other tenants also lost people, and they did not force us to go to this extent to collect.

Sathya Baba

One can imbibe those lessons only to the extent of one's patience and intelligent skill.

Donald Rumsfeld

My hope is that they do get it done in good time and to the extent it requires adjustments later, obviously that can be done,

William Adams

Given the extent of the rise the level of the pull-back seems to be fairly minimal and after consolidating the up trends are likely to push prices higher still.

Deborah White

The primary uncertainty right now is the extent of damage, and headlines there will go straight into prices.

Jim Johnstone

We've never been threatened to the extent that Katrina and Rita did, ... Unfortunately we're not going to have a true test of the system until that occurs.

Donald Smithburg

should tour the facility so he can see for himself the extent of the damage.

Shawn Johnson

I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.

Ben Carson

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

Italo Calvino

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Italo Calvino

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Denny Leathers

Lucas did a nice job. He started out not looking so good, but got stronger and stronger. He got most of his strikeouts late in the game.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

Wayne Wonder

My first time in the studio was in '85 but I didn't actually record in '85. I started recording the right way in the late part of '87-'88.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Mark Fischer

Let's plan for it. Don't wait. We have to step up as leaders.

Bill Cunningham

leaders in other boroughs did. State party leaders did.

Justin Gray

Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere.

John Maxwell

Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.

Arun Sarin

Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.

Albert Schweitzer

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

Al Gore

Make this a moral moment, ... This is your moment.

Winston Churchill

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Lincoln Steffens

Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.

Andy Carter

Numbers are up. School spirit is up. Morale is up. I have one-tenth of the school in band.

Dennis Prager

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

David Harsanyi

For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.

Bob Wallace

That was one of the things that was perplexing about this.

John Rees

It was very disappointing, ... It was also perplexing that we had so much of the domination, possession and territory and could not make them tell.

Sir Vanbrugh

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable

Brian Billick

For Todd, it's time to go after it, ... We'll be prudent about it.

Andre Gide

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Daniel McConchie

I don't think it's the most prudent thing to do at this time. It's really a long-shot type of situation." ()

Dennis Rosa

This seems like the prudent thing to do. Some of this may have been a surprise to some of us, but it's a timing thing.

Bob Gainey

Whenever it's around the eye, I think it prudent and wise that all cautions should be taken.

Atul Gawande

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Tim O'Neill

It's really our responsibility to do this audit. It's prudent to do this.

Mike Keenan

I didn't think that was a prudent thing for the organization or for our fans.

Don Madden

It's just being more prudent with the resources we have.

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Dennis Prager

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Elbert Hubbard

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Elbert Hubbard

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Eduardo Galeano

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Ben Jonson

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Ben Jonson

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Abraham Lincoln

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

Oona Chaplin

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Kerri Strug

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Tod Kowalczyk

We've got to find a way to pursue the ball.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Mark Norell

There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

Johnny Jessop

They're just as much victims as we are.