Famous Quotes & Sayings

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Chris Christie

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Louis Stokes

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Lyndon Johnson

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Adlai E. Stevenson

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

Fred Siegel

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

James Murphy

We knew who the individual was. We knew the type of vehicle he was driving. He went by the location where we were standing, where he had previously dumped all the trash.

Ronnie Brewer

We knew they were playing sort of a man-switch zone and take it to the rack or dump it off to the big guys and hope they can finish it.

Bill Polick

When things are dumped into ravines or riverbeds, those become contaminated and natural habitat is disturbed.

Kelly Turner

I was going to the dump when my wife called to tell me about the fire. We were going to watch football today.

Sue Shipman

Get yourself an envelope, regular or large, dump in at one time. Get it all in one place.

Gordon Bethune

For some reason TSA thinks that dumping out our passengers' underwear at the gate after it has already been dumped out at the security screening checkpoint makes TSA look like they are on top of things.

Robert Crowder

He was obviously not a very good pilot because he dumped the helicopter when he got out of the facility,

David Heil

If that happens, that oyster will not come back ever unless you dump oyster shells,

Peter Steele

If we're going to be dumped into, say, goth metal or something like that, I really don't mind being called that.