Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Ventura

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

Jessica Alba

Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.

Jean de la Bruyere

How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

Jayne Mansfield

I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

Jayne Ann Krentz

Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.

Jay Mohr

I didn't want to fight a guy from England. What if I lose? Not that English guys aren't strong, but who wants to get beat up by a guy with that voice? That's not the most masculine voice to take a beating to.

Jay Leno

President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have a free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida.

In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.

Christopher Hitchens

Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way — because it’s had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But you’ve got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side.

Moby

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point.

Mike Rounds

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

Mike Royko

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Mika

I love collaborating with strong women.

Kurt Masur

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

Kristy Swanson

I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

Kumi Naidoo

This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today. The leaders of major economies must be bolder than they were today in providing a vision for 100% renewable energy for all.

Kirk Gibson

I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles,

Kimberly Elise

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

Kim Wilde

In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

Kim Cattrall

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

Kim Cattrall

The chemistry among the four of us is very strong.

Kevin Eubanks

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

Kevin Costner

I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.

Karl Marx

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

Karl Marx

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Kalpana Chawla

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Kailash Satyarthi

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

Julia Gillard

Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.

Jules Verne

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Julia Cameron

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.