Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitt Romney

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

Mitt Romney

I frankly can't wait, because the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine, I can't imagine the American people can imagine....

R. C. Sproul

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

R. C. Sproul

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

R. C. Sproul

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

R. C. Sproul

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Prem Rawat

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

Powell Clayton

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Poppy Montgomery

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

Nelson Mandela

You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

Nelson Mandela

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

Nellie Bly

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

Neill Blomkamp

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

Neill Blomkamp

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

Neko Case

When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ”

Neko Case

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

Neil Young

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

Neil Young

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

Neil Young

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

R. L. Stine

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Mike Huckabee

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Nic Pizzolatto

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

Niall Horan

If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.

Neville Marriner

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Newt Gingrich

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Nhat Hanh

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

Noam Chomsky

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

Noam Chomsky

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Noam Chomsky

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.