Famous Quotes & Sayings

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Francis Maude

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

Chris Tucker

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.

Carice van Houten

American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

Herodotus

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

David Harewood

There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

Berkeley Breathed

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

Bill Nelson

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

Barry Ritholtz

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.

Abraham Verghese

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

Ahmed Zewail

Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.

Adam Hochschild

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Danny Glover

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

Carl Schurz

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

Bob Menendez

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

Barry McCaffrey

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

I want to produce a country album for a country singer.

Anupam Kher

As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time.

Anthony Atala

We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.

This will help us tremendously for the districts. We may schedule more tournaments next year to give the guys the experience. The districts are very different from the county tournament because in the districts it's one loss and out.

This will eventually be a like lot some of the jockey schools in other countries around the world,

This will encourage more to visit the county and to purchase more of our wonderful food and drink products when they are with us and equally importantly when they go back to their homes and tell their friends.

This was an important case. Mr. Fisher was a prominent businessman in Jackson County and the word on the street had been that he would never serve time. Well, he made a big mistake by crossing the line the Williamson County line. This should send a message that we will aggressively prosecute those who would harm our children.

This was a nice win and hopefully it makes us No. 1 in sectionals. It also gave us the Livingston County Division II title.

This was a great high school Division V game. The effort was good. The plays were unbelievable. But we made mistakes when it counted the most.

Janos Kadar

The Party counts on the support of every honest worker who declares himself in favour of the socialist objectives of the working class.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.

Andrew Cohen

This really says something about the role of science education in this country and begs us to question how we are teaching evolutionary theory.