Famous Quotes & Sayings

Youssou N'Dour

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life. They must receive the right food for a healthy body, the right education for a bright and inquiring mind - and the equal opportunity for a meaningful job.

John Boyd Orr

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

Bernard Ebbers

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international -- three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

Susan Minot

Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

Bobby Jindal

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Oscar Arias

Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.

Dan Quisenberry

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

Guo Guangchang

Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources.

Anne Sweeney

Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

Grover Norquist

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Grace Napolitano

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

Hallie Ephron

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

Amanda Harlech

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

Tom Hiddleston

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Johann Georg Hamann

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Thomas Lennon

Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.

Chris Hadfield

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Dan Chaon

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

Phil Bredesen

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

Elizabeth Thornton

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Marian Wright Edelman

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

Ban Ki-moon

Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

Stuart Rose

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

Immanuel Kant

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Pat Brown

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Marilynne Robinson

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

Frederick Reines

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.

Will Chase

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

Matt Taibbi

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Charlotte Rampling

Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.

Robert Smithson

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Salman Rushdie

Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

Richard Leakey

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Manolo Blahnik

Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.

Mark Foley

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

Greg Wise

Parties are not my thing; I keep it low-key.

Alison Bechdel

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Zygmunt Bauman

Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

Elizabeth Edwards

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Colum McCann

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.