Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Jay Olshansky

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

Larry Gagosian

Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

Nancy Astor

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Anne Sweeney

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

Martin Seligman

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

Etel Adnan

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

Neil Peart

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

Drew Bledsoe

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

Bill Kreutzmann

Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.

Kevin Powers

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Orson F. Whitney

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

Trevor McDonald

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

Adam Michnik

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

Karl A. Menninger

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

Whittaker Chambers

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

George Will

Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.

Tadashi Yanai

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Leonard Mlodinow

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

Clive Thompson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Zac Goldsmith

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

Kate Millett

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Emily Berrington

Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Ken Auletta

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

Jean Paul

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Wallace Stevens

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Virginia Foxx

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

Jim Fowler

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Michael Burgess

Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

Tino Sehgal

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding.

Jack Kingston

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

Stanley Crouch

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Li Shufu

Our dream is to see Geely vehicles driven all over the world.

Kim Campbell

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

Stephen Cambone

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

Joe Biden

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

David Hackworth

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

Kevin Rollins

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

Michio Kaku

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

Glen Hansard

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

Gregory Stock

Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

Carl Lewis

Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

Christopher Bond

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

David Wilkerson

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

Clementa C. Pinckney

Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.