Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Camille Pissarro

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Leonor Varela

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Audre Lorde

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

William Shakespeare

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

William Shakespeare

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Charles Spurgeon

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Benjamin Harrison

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

Benjamin Harrison

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

Benjamin Harrison

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

Chester A. Arthur

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

Abraham Lincoln

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Abraham Lincoln

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Bob Dole

Stop telling the truth about my record!

Dana Perino

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.