Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

William J. Clinton

I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

William J. Clinton

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

Sarah Palin

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

William Faulkner

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

William Faulkner

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Willem Dafoe

I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

Wil Wheaton

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Ronald Reagan

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Saint Augustine

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

Saint Francis de Sales

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Ulysses S. Grant

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Ulysses S. Grant

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Rob Thomas

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

Richelle Mead

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

Richard Bach

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Thomas Sankara

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

Thomas S. Monson

By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

Thomas Perry

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Robert H. Schuller

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

Robert H. Schuller

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Robert Greene

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Richard M. Nixon

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Richard M. Nixon

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Robert Carlyle

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

Richard Rohr

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

Sarah Dessen

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

Roger Ebert

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Robert Trout

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

Sarah Lewis

Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.

Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Samuel Johnson

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.