Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Reno

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

Bill Watterson

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Cameron Diaz

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

C. S. Lewis

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

Abu Bakr

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Desmond Morris

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

Dale Carnegie

If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Barbara Deming

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Catherynne M. Valente

It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

Anne Rice

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Neil Young

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

Martin Mull

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Henry Rollins

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Jonathan Kozol

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

George MacDonald

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

Leo Tolstoy

Vengeance is mine; I will repay.