Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph B. Wirthlin

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

Jodi Picoult

With a chronically ill child, there is only so much you can do for your other kids.

Orson Scott Card

Madness, and then illumination.

We are yet to find who was doing the illegal logging.

We can turn this state around, working together to make Illinois a better place.

We've had an impact. No one is talking about making illegal immigrants felons anymore.

Stephen Jay Gould

If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration.

Hillary Clinton

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

Kurt Vonnegut

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

There have been very positive responses from these enterprises after we made public their illegal activities.

There is no precedent for this, but there is no question who put this situation in motion. If they did not have their illegal strike, there is no question that this would not have happened.

Atal Vajpayee

Pakistan couldn't take Kashmir through wars. There should be no illusion that it could get it through supporting terrorism

B. F. Skinner

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Bill Bryson

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Just as parents are talking to their kids about smoking, or alcohol, or drug use, they're now talking to their kids about illegal downloading.

People like to think mental illness means insane, when thats just not true. There has to be a social conscious-wakening around it.

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Patrick is a qualifier. All this about whether Illinois has seen a transcript isn't the point. Those schools haven't seen a transcript, and they have offered.

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

Today's news is an important step in transitioning from illegal P2P sites to legal alternatives.

Ludwig von Mises

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

Roger Wicker

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Mel Gibson

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

Ian Mckellen

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

The Andersen Worldwide counterclaim is as illogical today as when it was originally filed 19 months ago.

We are being impacted severely. And illegal is illegal. I don't understand why people don't understand what illegal means.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Pitching has looked great. Liz is pretty much used to pitching like that. She has been our pitcher since her sophomore year. She is durable, and she can go. She got a little ill on the trip but worked through it.