Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

John Ridley

If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.

Johann Rupert

It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.

Tim Sieber

It is costing more and more money to heat my home, more money to fill up up my car. It gives me less disposable income for a trip.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.

Chris Toumazou

We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days.

Warren Farrell

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

Derek Blasberg

I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.

Jay Butler

We have all these hits on disposable income, and we turn around and say we don't have to worry about higher home prices. Give me a break.

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Betty Wright

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Barry White

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

Diana Ross

I have never gotten into the label thing.

Alan Light

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Al Yankovic

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

Aimee Mann

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

Brian McKnight

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

Charlie Chaplin

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.

Charlie Chaplin

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Charlie Chaplin

Greed has poisoned men's souls

Charlie Chaplin

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Charlie Chaplin

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.

Charlie Chaplin

The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

Charles Wagner

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Ed Koch

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Demetri Martin

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Edward Young

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, / Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

Bible Bible

And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

Rudy Meredith

It was a tough game. We survived and were able to get a much-needed victory.

Lisa Kleypas

He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

Drew Goddard

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

Travis Plunkett

What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.

Milton Glaser

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Toby Keith

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Harish Rawat

I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

Craig Venter

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

Councilwoman Mackin

I virtually begged for the money. (The project) is really going to be good. I'm thrilled.

Eden Sher

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

Benjamin Walker

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

Cecile Richards

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

Celia Imrie

There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.

Boris Johnson

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

Barbara Bush

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Abraham Lincoln

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

Dalai Lama

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Alexander Pope

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Charlie Chaplin

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Charlie Chaplin

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Charles Sumner

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Charles Sumner

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Charles Sumner

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

Charles Sumner

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Charles de Gaulle

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Charles de Gaulle

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.