Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Orson F. Whitney

Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

Julianna Baggott

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

Jim Ramstad

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

William Bernbach

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Pericles

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably.

Pete Sessions

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Charles Eastman

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

David Axelrod

Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

Alice Morse Earle

Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

Chief Seattle

Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Kyan Douglas

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

Billy Gibbons

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Pearl S. Buck

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Bella Abzug

Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.

Godfried Danneels

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

Sophie Swetchine

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Teresa Medeiros

Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.

Jane Fonda

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

Alton Brown

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

Patricia Reilly Giff

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Marion Barry

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Natsuo Kirino

'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.

Lucy Powell

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.

George R. R. Martin

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

Anthony Trollope

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Laurence Sterne

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

John Dryden

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Caio Fonseca

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

Susan Minot

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

Vincent Van Gogh

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Jason Katims

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

Morley Safer

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Jenny McCarthy

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Christy Turlington

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Holly Near

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

Dylan O'Brien

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

Susan Faludi

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

Tony Fernandes

Passion is just something that comes naturally to me.

Abraham Verghese

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

John Stossel

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Bob Saget

Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.