Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mac Thornberry

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and his boys were going to be hugged and kissed by their father and know they were loved.

Virginia Postrel

Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician.

Brit Hume

Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

John Boehner

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

Mark Zuckerberg

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.

Gerald R. Ford

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Margaret D. Nadauld

Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.

Barack Obama

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

Arthur Erickson

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

William Bernbach

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

Kathy Ireland

Our mission began with finding solutions for families, especially busy moms.

Marco Rubio

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

Steve Buyer

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

Sherwood Boehlert

Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.

Zayn Malik

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

Zack Snyder

Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

Hanoi Hannah

Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Linda M. Godwin

Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy.

Timothy Radcliffe

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Raoul Vaneigem

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Peter McWilliams

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

Chris Hadfield

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

John O'Donohue

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

Raymond Burr

Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.

Marc Ostrofsky

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

Dwyane Wade

Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.

Stephen Cambone

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

Lucy Powell

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.

Dennis Ritchie

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

Tom Vilsack

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Robin Quivers

Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'

Chuck Close

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

Dee Dee Myers

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Li Shufu

Particularly in China, I think a lot of people start to realise, OK, what are the things that they truly should value? That's something that fits perfectly well with what Volvo is offering.

Thomas E. Mann

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

Lupita Nyong'o

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

Yves Behar

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

Norman Vincent Peale

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peter Mullan

Part of the reason why so many actors lose the plot when they go over to America is that they become part of an industry, so that's why they don't want to play weak, bad or vulnerable guys - because that's not sellable; that diminishes their profit margin.

Martin Parr

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Travis Fimmel

Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.

David Tennant

Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'

Nat Wolff

Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

Kristin Armstrong

Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.