Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Bertrand Russell

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

Lenny Goldberg

I don't think it's out of the ordinary because revenue estimating is always difficult.

Catherine McAuley

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Bernardo Alvarez

Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies.

Barbara Mertz

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

Edward Abbey

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Mike Meixler

Volunteers don't have to spend a lot of money. They can just do ordinary things.

Cynthia Ozick

The ordinary is the divine.

Mario Cuomo

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

R. Inge

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

Marianne Williamson

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Kim Weston

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

William Cavendish

Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so.

Thomas Fuller

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Bill Bryson

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Bethenny Frankel

I despise shopping and department stores.

William Leach

I think they've been shopping this around for a while,

Bill Vaughan

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

Jim Daniels

I am just so used to shopping there.

Michael Williams

I was in the shop for 72-hour days, sleep for 16 hours, and then go to a final.

John Rhys-Davies

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

Pat Brown

I think it's gorgeous. I think I'll be shopping here a lot.

Simon Bird

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.