Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Valenti

We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.

Michel Onfray

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Morgan Wootten

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

Cameron Crowe

The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kentucky and getting walloped by a sense of family I hadn't realized was so much in place,

David Lord

We are pleased to have received such broad support from the employer community. No one payer can implement this program alone and not only employers, but health plans have recognized that this is an important investment to make.

Naveen Andrews

We're in the 9 o'clock slot now. Men and women alone on the island, they have needs. Needs that must be fulfilled.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.

Margaret Chan

The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.

Tim Chapman

We appreciate the help, from the (county jail) inmates and from everybody involved. One outfit alone would not be able to handle a project like this.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Kenneth Blackwell

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Merle Black

Most voters don't judge a governor on one decision,

J. C. Watts

Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Fritz Hollings

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Laura Innes

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Dan Ware

We're here to provide as much protection as possible. We're here to save lives first, and then do as much as we can to protect property.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Charles Caleb Colton

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

Charles Dickens

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Sturt

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Shari Brill

Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.

Marc Johnson

Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results.

Gijs de Vries

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Mike Ross

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Steven Wood

Any slowing in sales will reveal moderate overbuilding.

Lucy Jones

Northridge was a moderate earthquake, and it wasn't an urban hit; it was a suburban hit.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Carl Tobias

Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Alan Greenspan

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

Chris Christie

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

Chiranjeevi

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

David Mitchell

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

David Kim

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

C. S. Lewis

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Thomas Massie

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better,

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Caitlin Moran

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Edward Everett Hale

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?