Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

[In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.

Dick Cheney

I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

Dick Cheney

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

Dick Cheney

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults,

Dick Cheney

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

Dick Cheney

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

Dick Cheney

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

Dick Cheney

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.

Dick Cheney

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

Dick Cheney

I think, in fact, the situation with respect to Al Qaida to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11, but it's not likely again, I just think that's dead wrong. I think the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind, and I think Al Qaida is out there even as we meet trying to figure out how to do that.

Dick Cheney

I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did, that people didn't like and - and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.

Dick Cheney

Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don`t think she passed that test.

I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.

Walter Benjamin

And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.

Walter Benjamin

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

Walter Benjamin

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

Walter Benjamin

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

Walter Benjamin

I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.

Walter Benjamin

The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.

Walter Benjamin

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.

Christopher Nolan

The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it's density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.

Christopher Nolan

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Steven Morrissey

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

Barack Obama

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

Banksy

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.

Banksy

I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it,

Bram Stoker

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

Aesop

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

Samuel Butler

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Samuel Butler

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.