Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis C. K.

Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.

Kurt Vonnegut

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

Charles Lyell

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Betty White

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

Edward Hoagland

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Charles M. Schulz

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Arthur C. Clarke

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

William Shakespeare

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

John Brady

Let's be honest, what are we? Twelve and five? We've played 17 games. I think we ought to reserve those kind of judgments and statements to much later down the road.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Barbara Deming

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Ed Durkin

Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors.

Arlen Specter

What you've had here . . . is not a rush to judgment -- it's a stampede to judgment,

David Kelley

Mike made an accusation in closed session, and Dr. Thompson replied,

Tony Leon

But an ordinary reading of his remarks on the occasion - as well as camera footage of the conference - clearly indicated he was making an accusation of sabotage. He is even shown clearly using the word 'sabotage'.

David Mamet

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

Tracey Schmitt

Harry Reid's accusation that President Bush is playing politics with national security may earn him the title of hypocrite-in-chief.

Andrew Gowers

There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thickets, which are a complex web of patents which may stunt invention and discourage research and development.

Alfred Adler

There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone.

Kerry Sutton

Go back in any news archive and look at the men who have been freed from prison, look at the men that have been taken off death row. Mistakes happen. Bad directions are taken by district attorneys; police make mistakes. It happens all the time: False accusation is commonplace.

Michael Bradley

If the accusation is I'm friends with (Boone), then I'm guilty of that. But I'm guilty of that with a lot of legislators down there. If I had to find a sponsor for a bill that I didn't know or that I didn't like, I'd be hard pressed.

John Wilson

We all have a Judge Danforth in our lives, that voice of condemnation that calls us to confess the egregious. Sometimes the accusation is unfounded, not shaped by our actions, but by what the world thinks of us already.