Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Slaughter

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.

Dean Karnazes

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

Kim Alexis

Running just makes me happy. I love the freedom of running. I ran until I was seven and a half months pregnant with each of my babies. When I gave birth to my first son, my doctor said I couldn't run for six weeks. I was sneaking back out after eight days.

Tom Vilsack

Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing.

Michael Steele

Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh's whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it is incendiary. Yes, it is ugly.

Xun Zi

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Brent Scowcroft

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

Glenn Tipton

Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.

Alex Winter

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

Tammy Bruce

Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.

Natalie Imbruglia

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

Rudy Rucker

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Jeffrey Kluger

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

Thomas Huxley

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Dean Ornish

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Hippocrates

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Thomas Hobbes

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Donella Meadows

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Daphne Guinness

Seasons are really annoying. You get a really great pair of shoes or a beautiful pair of boots, and then you try to get them again four months later, and they say, 'Oh no, that was last season.'

Greg LeMond

Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time.

Robert Mueller

Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

Max Heindel

Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ.

Mencius

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Rosalind Wiseman

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Wendell Phillips

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

F. Sionil Jose

Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

Angela Kinsey

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.

Nina Garcia

Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

Jessie J

Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.

Matthew Henry

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Frank Gaffney

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

Maria Monk

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

Chip Conley

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

Georgia O'Keeffe

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Sebastian Junger

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Mark Hyman

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

Bode Miller

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

Conor Oberst

One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

Tom Brokaw

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

Gayle King

One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.

Emily Oster

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

George Benson

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

Walter Bagehot

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Thom Yorke

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Shimon Peres

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

Lesley Garrett

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

Lewis Carroll

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Henry Paulson

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.