Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. P. Taylor

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

There actually wasn't a danger to the public during that time.

Otto Schily

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

Liz Murray

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'

Mike Rowe

'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

Douglas Brinkley

Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

David Weinberger

I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

To me, this is a dangerous move. Employees are going to be losing out on all kinds of benefits. You've got to wonder what's going to happen to the next generation of workers.

We're just doing what everybody expected us to do, and what we feel like we can do. And when it all comes together, we're a dangerous team. We're definitely a team to be reckoned with in the National League Central.

We urge President Olusegun Obasanjo to protect the rights and well-being of all Nigerians, and disavow this dangerous bill.

Azzedine Alaia

The danger is we're losing sight of what women really want to wear.

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

Henry B. Eyring

The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.

Carrie Preston

I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.

Charles Clark

While incidents of this sort are mercifully rare, they serve to remind us of the risks and dangers police officers face every day in their work to uphold the law and protect the public.

Gena Showalter

'Wicked Nights' is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace - heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace - and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer

Gloria Steinem

If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.

Henry Wallace

The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those.

There are a lot of investors we find who are hanging on to technology stocks with the hope that they're going to rebound, and that's still a very dangerous thing. We really need the capitulation of those investors. So we still could see more downside on the Nasdaq and in technology.

There are a lot of grasslands that are crisp. And the spring forecasts are leaning toward dry. Every week that passes without a major storm - the fire danger goes up.

John F. Kennedy

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Alberto Gonzales

We have to be successful in this endeavor because we -- if we're not successful it makes our job, in terms of evacuation and providing relief, even more dangerous and more difficult,

The party leaders will probably be able to get support of their members at the end of the day. But it's still a dangerous business.

When you have a two-year exemption, there is no excitement in going to a tournament. It is when you are in danger of losing your livelihood, you have to get a grip of the situation.

We always thought it could be a dangerous hurricane, ... is the typical track for October.

This reminds us how dangerous the world is, especially the Middle East, where so much of our oil comes from.

There has to be a different way to deny people entry into the U.S. without treating them like a dangerous criminal.

We're not playing not to lose. We're playing to win. When you do that, you're a dangerous team.

Gary Bennett

We think there is a real danger there.

This treaty will do nothing -- will do nothing -- to reduce the dangers of poison gas.