Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kyrsten Sinema

I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation.

Peter Phillips

Since it is the state which is responsible for these social services, the government becomes discredited and a deep-seated attitude of alienation sets in. The entire society reaps the effect in the high incidence of crime, violence and anti-social behaviour

Terry Southern

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Susan Lieberman

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

Charles Kennedy

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

Umera Ahmad

A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

Marilyn Nelson

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

Jon Katz

There's a streak of alienation running through this culture, ... There's a streak of braininess, obsessiveness. I mean, anybody can use a computer, but not anybody's a geek.

Richard Greenberg

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Alex Tabarrok

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

Max Heindel

Because of the revolution of the Earth upon its axis, a new degree of the zodiac rises every four minutes, and thus even the horoscopes of twins may differ considerably.

Alan Greenspan

Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend ... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead,

Herb Guenther

We're going to seed the clouds. To what degree and how we do it and how we fund it is yet to be determined.

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Woody Allen

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Edmond de Goncourt

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Benjamin Franklin

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Dean Koontz

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

William Shakespeare

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

William Shakespeare

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.