Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iain Banks

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

Hugo Black

What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Hugo Chavez

The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.

Huey Newton

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.

Howard Barker

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Guy de Maupassant

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

George Burns

If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

George Bernard Shaw

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

George Bernard Shaw

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

George Bernard Shaw

I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

Gemma Ward

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

Gelsey Kirkland

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

Gena Showalter

We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

Frederik Pohl

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

Fredrik Bajer

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Freema Agyeman

I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

Freeman Dyson

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

Fred Durst

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

Some were taken from their homes, some from the street.

The storm, yes, it's slowed us down. We've kind of taken a back seat.

John Fund

That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts.

It would have taken something out of this world.

Joel Davis

The whole thing has taken me by shock.

Garry Trudeau

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Bob Woodward

I should have, as I have many, many times, taken him into my confidence. And I did not.

I've been here 23 years and I haven't taken no deals. I'm not going to take one now,

When it first started happening, it was taken as a loss.

Pattie Boyd

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.

This is what I know, this is what I work for my whole life. I don't want it to be taken away.

They have taken away three sailors. We think they have been killed already.