Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Eisenberg

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

Preneet Kaur

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Honeysuckle Weeks

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Stone Gossard

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Ken Livingstone

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

George Gallup

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

Ed Harris

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

Nacho Figueras

Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

Joel Edgerton

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

Wesley Morris

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Jim Ryun

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Peter Dawson

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open,

Barbara Coloroso

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Gerald R. Ford

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Keith Olbermann

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

Serge Schmemann

Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

Francois de Malherbe

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

James H. Douglas

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

Charles Edison

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Phil Condit

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

Wassily Kandinsky

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

Lisa Gansky

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

Frank Jordan

Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms.

Olivier Theyskens

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

Sandrine Bonnaire

Our family makes us who we are, defines us totally. When you go to a therapist or have analysis, whatever reason you go in for, they will always bring you back to your family. We're strong or weak according to what family we have. You might have left them long ago, might not even talk to them, but something lingers; we have no choice.

Cindy Crawford

Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.

William Pennington

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

Harish Rawat

Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.

Adrian Cronauer

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

Kevin Brady

Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

Nikki Haley

Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let's take their values, and their strengths, and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep America the greatest country in the history of man. And woman.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Tom Rice

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Richard Scaife

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

Israel Broussard

Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

Alija Izetbegovic

Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.

Donald Wuerl

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

Louis D. Brandeis

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

George William Russell

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

Dario Fo

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Andrew J. West

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

Eric Butterworth

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Paul Valery

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Wendy Kopp

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Joan Lunden

Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.

Nam June Paik

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.