Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

W. C. Fields

Go back to reform school, you little nose-picker!

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

Barbara Mikulski

There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

Alexei Navalny

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

Alexander Hamilton

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Emmeline Pankhurst

You have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.

Lobbying reform is going more the enforcement route. What's that going to do? Nothing much.

Albert Camus

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

David Foster Wallace

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

Abraham Verghese

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Susan B. Anthony

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

William Shakespeare

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

The reform also contributed to the resolving of the imbalance development of the world economy,

I'm a big reformer. And it's time to reform congressional relations at the White House.

Don Marquis

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

But it is still the most important immigration reform that I will have seen in my lifetime,

John W. Gardner

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Lu Xun

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

Montel Williams

If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don't know.

Peter Drucker

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Any immigration reform has to be comprehensive and not mean-spirited.

Sal Albanese

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

Phil Bredesen

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Temple Grandin

The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every reform was once a private opinion.

Susana Martinez

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform,

Sophie Swetchine

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Tom Harkin

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

Tacitus

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.