Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Catherine Opie

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Alexander Lebed

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

Adam Carolla

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

Daniel Day-Lewis

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

Bram Stoker

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Aimee Mann

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Jalal Talabani

stand with the Iraqi people as they move forward with the Democratic process.

Stan Jones

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

Jim Stuart

Republicans have not been doing their share of registering voters. The Democrats should be congratulated.

Benjamin Rush

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Mitch McConnell

I think there are a whole lot of Democrats who never had any idea what was in this bill, at least this year they are reading it." ()

Thomas Mann

I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The idea that somehow a Democratic majority is harmful for the economy strikes me as fanciful. It's financial fiction.

Tony Leon

I think voters are repulsed by the floor-crossers who took away their democratic mandate and this is an opportunity to make it right.

Bob Graham

It is not always easy for a Cuban-American to be a vocal Democrat in Miami-Dade County,

Nkosana Sibuyi

It is our firm view that the declaration of this day as a public holiday will enable voters to exercise their democratic right to vote as enshrined in our Constitution.