Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soledad O'Brien

On Sunday night, my husband makes a five-course family dinner.

Nelson A. Miles

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

Christian Lous Lange

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

Alfred Nobel

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.

Geoff Mulgan

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

Drew Curtis

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.

Andrzej Wajda

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

Eberhard Weber

On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.

Andrea Bocelli

Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

Lesley Garrett

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Kiri Te Kanawa

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

Charles Nelson Reilly

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

Kyle Chandler

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Susan Cain

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Joel Coen

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.

Elizabeth Moon

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

Ernest Mandel

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.

Les Brown

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Annie Lennox

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

Ernie Pyle

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

David McCallum

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

Robert Kiyosaki

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Robert Half

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

John Jay Chapman

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

Edwidge Danticat

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

Nigel Rees

People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

Manoj Bhargava

People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

Steve Burke

People would say, 'You can't say negative things about the company.' But you have no credibility if you can't tell people that they need to do better.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

David D. Burns

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Kirsten Prout

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

Charley Pride

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

Keith O'Brien

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

Maureen Forrester

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Conrad Black

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

Vitruvius

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

David Mitchell

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

William Godwin

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

George Henry Lewes

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

Mae West

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Michael Pitt

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Pheu Thai has to find prominent party leaders that can solve the problems of the country now. If we can find those types of people, then we can win. There are many good people in Thailand but we have to recruit them.

Karl Jaspers

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Andy Goldsworthy

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Chuck Close

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

Viggo Mortensen

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Alison Jackson

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.