Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Howard Kunstler

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

William Price

Lunatic Wind: Surviving out the Storm of the Century

Karl Evanzz

Muhammad himself fostered this idea and, for years, tried to convince his family that he, Elijah of Gilead, and the 7th century prophet Muhammad were one and the same.

Shinzo Abe

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

Octavio Paz

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Twyla Tharp

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Keith Burns

From salt-and-pepper shakers made for some nondescript little comedy from the 1940s, to important pieces from important features of today, all exist at Ellis. It's hard to imagine any important film from the last century that some item from that film is not in some way here at Ellis.

James Allen

One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives,

Stephen Kinzer

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.

Zdenko Tomanovic

Milosevic pointed out that during the last five years he had never used any such antibiotics, especially since he had never had leprosy or tuberculosis or any kind of infectious disease except for the flu.

Allen Johnson

My disease is shared by many Americans, and you either understand it or you don't,

David Reuben

Now there are more venereal diseases than there are signs of the zodiac.

John Green

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

Laila Ali

I can't really do that. I can't share a lot of things with him. I feel like the disease is progressing.

Sean Morrison

I can't sit here and tell you today what diseases we're going to treat as a result of this research. All I can tell you is that we're never going to get to that point unless we can do the research.

Steven Nissen

Getting rid of that plaque is a fundamental step in stopping this disease.

Paul Jacob

Frankly, the experience is you can't trust a politician. They drink the water in Washington, and the disease sets in.

James Hill

We've never done anything on this scale before. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.

W. Hull

Mandy... that's my favorite song of all time. Man, oh, man.

Bruce Bowen

Severna Park is the favorite this year and next year. They're four top players are all juniors.

Kirsten Dunst

May favorite food at the moment is Pasta, "with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I mean...when you get the thin slices.

Brian McBride

My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.

Dedrick L.

My favorite singer? I'd have to say A'Leithia Sweeting.

Frank Darabont

My favorite was the Green Mile parody in Mad Magazine.

Selenis Leyva

My favorite thing is just sitting in a makeup chair and letting makeup artists do their thing.

Jeremy Smith

My favorite thing is hitting. Maybe hitting a home run.

Angie Stone

My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people.

Marc Morial

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Cate Blanchett

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

Ludwig Borne

Let us have no care, but be glad of the approaching springtime of the peoples. Let us have no fear of the movement into the open.

Scottie Somers

Love allows you to dream. Fear allows you to pursue your dreams.

Madame de Stael

Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.

Todd Clark

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Jamie Woodruff

Scout was very fearful of people at first. He's come so far, I'm so proud of him.

Pat McDonnell

Mountain lions, I do not believe, have a healthy fear of man because they are not hunted.

Ron Gardenhire

Maybe we can put some fear in them, They have a single-digit lead (over Cleveland) now, so you know they're starting to feel the effects. And that's half the battle, to see how people handle things.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.