Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petra Stunt

Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

Peter Drucker

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Penn Jillette

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

Penn Jillette

Luck is statistics taken personally.

Penn Jillette

So many people say, ‘You know, your taxes aren’t taken by force,’ and that’s foolish. If you don’t pay your taxes and you don’t answer the warrant and you don’t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.

Penn Jillette

Comedy is taken care of by a free market.

Peer Steinbruck

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

Peg Bracken

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

Paulo Coelho

ALWAYS chose the road less taken.

Paulo Coelho

She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.

Paulo Coelho

We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it’s impossible to measure that ability or give it an economic value, it’s never taken seriously.

Marlo Thomas

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

Megyn Price

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

Megan McCafferty

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

Max Planck

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.

Maurice Strong

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

Maurice Strong

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

May Sarton

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

Max Heindel

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Maureen Reagan

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

Maya Angelou

The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

Maya Angelou

And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Maurice Sendak

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

Matt Stone

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.

Mark Lawrence

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

Mario Andretti

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

Mario Batali

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

Marilyn Manson

Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.

Marilyn Manson

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

Michael Buerk

What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.

Michael Caine

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

Mason Cooley

Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.

Mason Cooley

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.