Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jurgen Habermas

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Charles Dudley Warner

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.

Wesley Snipes

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Katrina Kaif

Personally, I'm a simple dresser. I usually buy my own clothes. Jeans, T-shirts, summer dresses and track pants. Whenever I get the time or see a shop that catches my fancy, I buy something.

Harry Lloyd

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

Novalis

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

David Hume

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Peter Lindbergh

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

Jon Bon Jovi

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

Ann Voskamp

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Robert Crumb

Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.

John Hoeven

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Harmon Killebrew

Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.

Toby Stephens

Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

Max von Sydow

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Alan Hansen

Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

Chris Lilley

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

Sholom Aleichem

Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

George Takei

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

George H. W. Bush

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.

Steve Israel

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

Vanessa Carlton

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it

Hal Sparks

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

Dwight Schultz

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.

Tom Lehrer

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Wilbur Smith

Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.

Arthur Koestler

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Max Weber

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Robert Harris

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Eleanor Clift

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

Adam Michnik

Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.

Rick Perlstein

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.

Aisha Tyler

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Harold E. Varmus

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

Chellie Pingree

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

Ibrahim Babangida

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

Maggie Q

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Eula Biss

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

Thomas Jefferson

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Ida B. Wells

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

Horatio Nelson

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

Earl Nightingale

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Tracey Gold

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

Donny Osmond

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Yoshihiko Noda

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Richard Louv

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.