Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

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

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.

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.

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

W. C. Fields

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

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.

Abraham Verghese

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

Don Marquis

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

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

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

Alexei Navalny

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

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.

George Eliot

We cannot reform our forefathers.

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.

Phil Bredesen

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

Tom Harkin

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

Sal Albanese

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

Steven Morrissey

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

Mo Udall

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Moliere

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Kenzo Tange

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Mario Monti

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

George H. W. Bush

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Grover Norquist

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

Ignatius of Loyola

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.