Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yusef Komunyakaa

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Donald Tusk

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

Tommy Cooper

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

Hal Sparks

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Parker Palmer

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

Mao Zedong

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Vagit Alekperov

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

Paul Weyrich

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

Naomi Klein

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Laura Bush

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Kenneth Koch

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

Sydney Schanberg

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

Philippe Perrin

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

Anne Campbell

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Cornel West

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

E. O. Wilson

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Rod Blagojevich

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

Harold Washington

Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

Tammy Baldwin

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

James Bryce

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Jon Stewart

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

Tony Hsieh

Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.

Lee H. Hamilton

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Jackie Gleason

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Tahj Mowry

Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents house as much as I can.

Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Kathryn Bigelow

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

James H. Douglas

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

Pratibha Patil

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.

Gerry Beckley

Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.

John C. Calhoun

Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.

Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Ingvar Kamprad

Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

Paul O'Neill

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.

Kenneth Lay

Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong.

Graham Joyce

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

Edward R. Murrow

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Candace Cameron Bure

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

Bill Shuster

Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

Naval Ravikant

Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

Denis Kearney

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Maria Shriver

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

Leonard Boswell

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Pete du Pont

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.

Ramana Maharshi

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Denise Juneau

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Ken Ham

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

Romain Grosjean

Our regular fitness programme means that the race lasting longer than others should not be a problem, but something you have to prepare for in Singapore is ensuring you always keep well-hydrated, as the heat and humidity can easily dehydrate you.