Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

Barry Long

IF YOU LOOK at life's totality you will notice that every living thing exists for something else.

Mary Matalin

I didn't know that it existed until I was actually down there, and I'm sure I could find my way back there to this day.

Greg Graffin

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

William Hurt

I need to exist as an actor. . . . There is frustration. But that's not my primary experience. The primary experience is, "Today I'm gonna go try." When I get it, it feels wonderful. But even trying feels good.

Gene Sperling

In the end, there will be a successful launch of this round. The differences that exist now will get ironed out in the late- hour negotiations.

I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

Finn Wittrock

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

But having said that, the same problems still exist with the strike in Venezuela and the Iraq situation.

David Strathairn

But I find it's usually a collaboration. Very rarely does a lead exist without someone else holding on to the leash, so to speak.

But the existing facilities are far from enough to meet the minimum of their demands.

This is a crane that allows you to look at objects and manipulate them very precisely, more so than you could with any existing type of crane.

This has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world, and it is unnecessary to be in that position, ... This Week.

They simply don't have the funding to replace all of their existing equipment.

Chuck Palahniuk

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

Tariq Aziz

Enough is enough. The sanctions have been imposed for reasons which don't exist any more and it's time to lift those sanctions,

Charles Cooley

Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Richard Armitage

didn't get what information that did exist out to the public.

There have been numerous site plans circulated showing redevelopment with the existing structures removed.

We are approaching this project as a means to solve existing needs.

Miguel Syjuco

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively.

What's been most important is letting people know the existence of the Web site and the fact that there's a special effort.

Jared Kushner

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

Paul Otellini

There is a lot of stuff that was written around his reiteration of our existing positions that I can only nicely characterize as editorializing,

Joseph Bruchac

Very good records exist about the Trail of Tears. Journals and other records kept by Cherokees and non-Indians tell such things as which people were where on which day.

The other companies, like Intel and IBM, are trying to take existing CPU architectures and get to this massive threading. But they can't. We are probably five years ahead, maybe two or three generations ahead.

Saul Bellow

There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thinking we have to do and all the judgments we have to make. It's the price of freedom: make the judgments, make the mental calls,

William Sharp

The route pretty much exists. It's a combination of land and water routes. The land routes, for the most part, follow existing roads.

Marcus Aurelius

The robber of your free will," writes Epictetus, "does not exist

Dick Williams

It would be a significant improvement over existing law.

It would be a severe strain on our existing hospital system.

The status quo in storage has existed for a long, long time, ... but I think the applecart is about to be upset.