Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

John Fahey

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Mary Morrison

Recent experience in Latin America illustrates that governments remain central to infrastructure provision. Not only is public funding sometimes indispensable, but the state has an essential role to play in partnering and overseeing private operators and protecting consumers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

George Miller

President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet.

Carl Pope

President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands. American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage. America deserves someone who will promote safe energy policies that protect sensitive lands and wildlife habitat, instead of giving over our public lands to developers and the oil and gas companies.

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Andrew Jack

I went to Bali for two months and met my wife, and that's how the story started... We had a very simple beginning, selling art on the street.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

John Adams

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Billy Graham

part poet, part preacher, a singer of the human spirit.

Margot Robbie

People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.

Dan Shechtman

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Bhagavad Gita

Success in work comes quickly in this human world.

Jim Leach

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Kamila Hyat

Our view is that if surveillance has happened, it is undemocratic. This is a violation of human rights.

Tony Perkins

Rep. Foxx is to be commended for supporting public policy that values human life, protects our religious liberties, and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family.

Jimmy Schaeffler

Piracy has taken a hit, but it's always going to be a problem. It's human nature to find ways around paying.

Ogden Nash

Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Anthony Pettis

I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.

David Carson

He was sort of an inventor of a tough-guy look, whether he knew it or not.

Robert Morton

we can keep an inventory of what we got, what we need.

Jules Verne

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

Tetsu Emori

Most of the traders are looking at the Iranian issue over the bearish inventory report.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Rhys Ifans

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

Ogden Nash

Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Rhys Ifans

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

Mallory Ortberg

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

Clint Eastwood

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

William Kircher

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

Walter Murch

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.