Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dhani Jones

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

Ron Wyden

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality.

Nick Rahall

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

Chuck Hagel

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Yasser Arafat

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Cindy Sheehan

'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.

Alanis Morissette

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Pete Hegseth

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

Christopher Dodd

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Action Bronson

Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.

Carrot Top

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

Lee Scott

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

Aaron Ciechanover

Reticulocytes are terminally differentiating red blood cells that do not contain lysosome. Therefore, it was postulated that the degradation of hemoglobin in these cells is mediated by a non-lysosomal machinery.

Mel Brooks

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

Bradley Whitford

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

John Chrysostom

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Linda Evans

Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.

Natalie Babbitt

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

Harry Shum, Jr.

Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

Ian Rankin

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Learned Hand

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

Rupert Sheldrake

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

Ja Rule

Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.

Berenice Bejo

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

Franklin Raines

Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

Bart Stupak

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Jimmy Reid

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

Elisabeth Shue

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

Evan Dando

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Kim Alexis

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

Andrei Codrescu

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

Nathaniel Branden

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Erskine Bowles

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

Kamala Harris

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

Dean Karnazes

Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.'

Aly Khan

Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.

Dmitry Medvedev

Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is indeed part of the country's national psyche.

Ivan Krastev

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

Robert Zoellick

Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.

Ed Balls

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Emily Browning

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

Brett Hoebel

Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

Rosalynn Carter

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

Cecil Beaton

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Vladimir Nabokov

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Akhenaton

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Edward Abbey

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Freddie Highmore

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.