Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Leonard Boswell

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.

Orison Swett Marden

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Drew Houston

Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

Nikola Tesla

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

Nick Rahall

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

Norm Dicks

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

Joyce Banda

Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

Kim Jong Il

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Frank Carlucci

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

Peter Hollingworth

Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.

Ang Lee

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

John Ortberg

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Tessanne Chin

Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.

Mark Strand

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Ralph Bakshi

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

Preneet Kaur

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

Andrew Cherng

Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.

Alvin Toffler

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Amy Chua

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

Camryn Manheim

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

Bob Parsons

Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available.

Robert Powell

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

Natasha Richardson

Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

Gwendoline Christie

Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling.

David Eagleman

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

Valerie Jarrett

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

Plautus

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Jerry Brown

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

Kate Walsh

People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.

David Maraniss

People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.

Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Lewis B. Smedes

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Pythagoras

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will

Abbie Hoffman

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Elvis Presley

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Charlie Rose

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

George Kaiser

Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids - not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment and sensory stimulation that lower-income kids often don't get.

Norman Rockwell

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

Yingluck Shinawatra

Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.

Dave Lombardo

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

Peter Tork

Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

Eric Clapton

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Nathaniel Rateliff

Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

Ben Folds

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

John Carmack

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.