Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amity Shlaes

Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men.

I think we were moving it pretty well. We killed ourselves with turnovers and false starts.

Ann Hood

Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Larry Brown

When you don't have practice time and you get away with winning some games, you get a false sense of who you are.

Rumi

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

Billy Sunday

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

We have been placed in a false light.

Joseph Williams

We have been lulled into a false sense of complacency. Katrina was a wake-up call.

To reduce false positives, we need to understand our system.

FKA twigs

I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

We obviously didn't finish where we would have liked to in the Currie Cup, but we can take lessons out of the season. Maybe in some ways it was good that we were knocked out early, because we don't have a false sense of where we are.

False alarms are down dramatically, and we're very pleased. That was the intent of the ordinance, and it's working.

William Cowper

Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.

The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teachers.

I wasn't angry. I just felt like someone had given false information to the government.

Who says that fictions only and false hair / Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? / Is all good structure in a winding stair?

John Dryden

Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.

Kyle Busch

Usually, things in the media are false and that's just what it comes down to sometimes, I'm not going there, bud.

We get a lot of false positives and we need to reduce the number.

Ryan Smith

We don't have any troubles here. I don't know what goes on around the league, but I talked to a few players and by and large I think this is false information.

is a wonderful way of getting false concessions out of innocent people. It is a terrible way of getting the truth out of guilty people.

Diogenes

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

Leslie Stephen

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false ideaoccupying that niche.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

The ignorant persons having false hopes, false actions, and false knowledge, possess the delusive qualities.

As CFO at WorldCom I participated with other members of WorldCom to conspire to paint a false and misleading picture of WorldCom's financial results,

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Marty Casey

So those are the tools that I've learned, and getting this falsetto voice that I never knew I had. There have been a few honest musical breakthrough moments that kicked me up a notch.

John Marshall

They have made a habit of knowingly making false statements ? lying ? and today they pass it off as spin like this is some sort of game. It's not. This isn't called spin, it's called lying to the public. And it's illegal.

Paula Abdul

All my life, I have been taught to take the high road, and never to dignify salacious or false accusations. And I have been taught never, never to lie. Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.