Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Dave Chappelle

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

David Daniels

An email address is like a customer's "digital fingerprint".

Benazir Bhutto

All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.

David Amram

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

B. C. Forbes

I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

Ashley Jensen

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Alber Elbaz

I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.

Annabelle Selldorf

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

Dallas Willard

God's address is at the end of your rope.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Anton Chekhov

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

Elias Canetti

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

Adam Gopnik

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

Robert Cecil

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

John Cusack

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

Darby Stanchfield

My favorite cast member of Scandal is Josh Malina.

Chuck Todd

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

William Shakespeare

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

Benjamin Rush

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.