Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Thatcher

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

Margaret Thatcher

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Mark Twain

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Mark Twain

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

Paul Ricoeur

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Patrick Ness

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)

Leopold Von Ranke

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Leon Trotsky

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Larry Wall

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

P. J. O'Rourke

The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

Patti LaBelle

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

Patricia McConnell

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

Oscar Wilde

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

(Grant) played it perfectly. That took away a hit and two runs.

(Graffanino's) hit us whether he's been with the Royals, White Sox, Boston. He seems to always get on base, some how, some way. He's been a thorn in our side.

William Shakespeare

Graze on my lips, and if those hills are dry, Stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie

Rick Carlisle

For the last 10 days, we've spent a lot of time on fundamentals, individual work, screening and footwork. We know that doing the little things at a high level is going to be key for us winning some games.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

Brian Bell

For our high-value applications and those that require high performance, Web services technologies are not robust enough for the job.

For now the rate hike will have mostly a psychological impact on the market. Investors will probably use this as a reason to push prices down before re-entering the market at lower levels.

For the first time in the history of that program, Maine's number one project is ranked number one in the country.

For the first time in history, we're going to make voting fashionable,

For our size, I think we are safe. There has been a lot of highway reconstruction. Danbury would have never been the same if I-84 hadn't been widened.

For someone to have me in junior high to pick me, that was quite an honor,

Gloria Steinem

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

I wear high heels for long legs.

Harry S Truman

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Nathan Fillion

I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life.

Natalia Kills

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

Keith Carradine

I was actually filming in Atlanta when I got a call from Walter Hill saying, "Well, it could be your turn to play Hickok." I said, "Oh, well, great!" He said, "What's your hair look like?" I said, "Well, it's short, Walter, but... I've still got that wig!" . He said, "Well, bring it!"