Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blum

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

David Blunkett

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

Jon Huntsman

I wish I could say this was the governor's effort, but this is your citizenry at work, this is your community at work and it is so great to be your governor during this time,

Paul McMasters

Jeffersonian principle of (an) informed citizenry being necessary for democracy. It's a window on the operations of government and the performance of government officials.

Dennis Gallagher

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations. The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

Dennis Gallagher

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations, ... The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

Husain Haqqani

There will be a long-term questioning of the relationship between the citizenry and the Pakistan state.

Maurice Hinchey

It's clear price gouging, ... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Kate Klise

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

Jules Verne

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Italo Calvino

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Vladimir Putin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

Joyce Banda

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

Kylie Minogue

I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Stephan Sirard

There are questions morally and ethically, but legally, they can't stop us.

William Bennett

an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.

John LaChance

He thought what he was doing was morally right?

Viktor Yushchenko

There won't even be talk of reconsidering the decision, ... first of all, morally and politically.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Erica Mann Jong

Nothing said or done there should morally count. Everyone is exhausted.

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Lao Tzu

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Ho Chi Minh

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Edgar Mitchell

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

George Magliano

We think the Scion is a phenomenon unto itself.

Drake Johnstone

This tracking stock phenomenon doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down to $0.

Bill Gates

The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed.

Jonathan Sacks

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

Steve Bonney

A phenomenon has happened. We've tapped into the trucker network.

Jack Fultz

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

Ted Smith

This convergence phenomenon is very real, and it's getting more real.

Craig Fugate

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Carl Sagan

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Edward Hoagland

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Gibbon

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Edward Gibbon

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Katharine Cornell

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Quentin Richardson

Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Derrick Brooks

It could be a whole lot worse then where we are.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.

Chuck Hill

I would have expected, even without FD, to see more preannouncements this quarter. Things are worse out there.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Andy Roddick

I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match.