Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Emmet

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.

Robert Carlyle

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

Shashi Tharoor

Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere. Could a person of color win power in other white-majority countries?

Shashi Tharoor

In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless discussions and arguments amongst myriad interests, and funds have to be found where they might.

Rick Perlstein

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

William Butler Yeats

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence

Life in exile, abroad, in a foreign element ... a premonition of your own book-form fate, of being lost on the shelf among those with whom all you have in common is the first letter of your surname.

Tom Daschle

Let us be clear, ... All Americans deserve a tax cut. But surely, the wealthiest among us should not get it at the expense of working families. There's a better way.

Lung cancer incidence was higher among African-Americans and Hawaiians.

Luke had his best game of the season. To come out in a game as big as this and play the way he did shows what kind of competitor he is. He was a man among boys tonight.

David Ogilvy

Make sure you have a Vice President in charge of Revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

Lexmark is clearly in the worst position among the major vendors,

The product rumors are secondary to the positive sentiment among investors heading into the first-quarter results.

Thomas Woods

One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.

Ted Cruz

I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

The popularity of gift cards is soaring among consumers of all ages.

James Smith

The poor will always be among us. In their mind, as long as they get gas and electricity, they're OK. But what about the next month? And the next? . . . The challenge is helping people to break out of the mentality of poverty.

What we can say now is that we will have a document that will reflect what is politically possible right now among 191 members,

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

Kent Conrad

When you're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that you spend, that can't continue much longer. I think everybody really does understand that, and it's going to require all of us - those who are the most fortunate among us - but it's really going to require every American to contribute to a solution.

Jose Rizal

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord has established His Church once again among men.

Jane Goodall

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

Julianne Moore

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.

Lactantius

Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.

George Henry Lewes

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

Elliott Abrams

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a phenomenon of the 50-something who can't remember if his broker's number ends in 1137 or 3317.

Eugenie Clark

Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

There is universal consensus among experts that the earth's atmosphere is heating up - and that we are responsible for it by putting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We also know that the consequences of global warming are catastrophic. But how do we make sure that all countries reduce greenhouse gases?

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.