Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Amity Shlaes

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.

Dick Gregory

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Shirley Temple

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Theodore White

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Ravi Shankar

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Edward Young

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Ellen Tauscher

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

Zoe Saldana

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Susan Isaacs

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

Arianna Huffington

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

George Pataki

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

Sydney J. Harris

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Tariq Ramadan

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

Luc de Clapiers

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Huey Lewis

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

Louise Slaughter

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

David Christian

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

Ibrahim Rugova

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.

Alberto Gonzales

Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.

Robert Byrd

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Peter L. Berger

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

Natalie Goldberg

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

Nicolas Roeg

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Anne Sullivan

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Sadie Jones

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

Ian Williams

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

Christopher Dodd

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Robert Mugabe

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Al Goldstein

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

David Zucker

Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.

Gale Norton

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Stanley Hauerwas

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Richard Bach

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

Catherine Helen Spence

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

Ivan Pavlov

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

Donald Rumsfeld

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

LL Cool J

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

Bernard Beckett

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

Atul Gawande

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Inbee Park

Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.

Barbara Amiel

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

Peter Milligan

Over at Marvel, I have a five-part series coming out very soon. The books or chapters will appear weekly. It's called '5 Ronin' and features some iconic Marvel heroes as you've never seen them.

Randy West

Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.