Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Billie Joe Armstrong

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

Timothy Noah

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.

Uma Bharati

She (Sonia) wants to create anarchy in this country. She became a victim of her own actions.

Adam Rapp

There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class.

Aldous Huxley

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Deborah Moggach

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

Alfred Hermann Fried

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

Askar Akayev

There has been a constitutional coup in the republic. A small group of irresponsible plotters and carpet-baggers in a criminal way used force to capture power. An uncontrolled and destructive wave of anarchy and violence overwhelmed the capital and other cities,

Felix Frankfurter

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

Bruce Lahn

If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.

Terry Jones

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Georgia Witkin

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Alan Furst

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Malala Yousafzai

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Thomas Buxton

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel

William Blake

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

Peter Post

We can have discussion without letting it degenerate into personal attacks,

Craig Venter

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

Joseph Druce

It wasn't about planning. I had to stop him and that was that. He was a sick, degenerate pedophile that victimized hundreds of kids.

Henry David Thoreau

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

Francis Atterbury

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Horace Walpole

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Hunter S. Thompson

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Neil Young

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Peter Drucker

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Kunda Dixit

Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.

Mahathir Mohamad

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

Jeff Chester

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Bernie Sanders

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

Emma Bonino

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Bill Vaughan

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Helen Thomas

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

Kari Williams

Starting out, they had puffy eyes. I didn't know if they could see the basket.

Dan Gorbett

Over 25 years I've never gotten over seeing the tears and heartbreak in kids' eyes when you lose. Unless you win a state championship, you will have kids that have been crushed. You never get over it.

John Donne

Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.

Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.

Jillian Robbins

I was just watching their eyes, and they were looking at who they were about to pass to. So I said, 'I've got to get this. I've got to leave it all on the floor.' My teammates had my back, so I went for it, and it worked out.

Kirk Hoza

I think the time away let him see the big picture. The technical part which way do the hips face, where do your eyes go that's where there is a little rust. But the spring is where you can shake the rust off.

Joe DiMaggio

It is an interesting coincidence. I guess I am following in his footsteps, ... 'Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you?' I'll tell people my name and they don't get it.

Matt Stout

Jay and Joe are my eyes out on the course. They help me see everything.

Chris Duffy

That's what he should do -- open some eyes and show that he can play. We're real good friends and competitive, too, at the same time.

Malorie Blackman

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

Rob McClure

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Kofi Annan

I think the report speaks for itself and he will have to speak for himself,

Chris Byrne

I think this will really help. Look at what Target has done in establishing itself as a resource for consumers. Toys R Us is struggling to become a destination for toys so it makes perfect sense.

Dave Thomas

It is important to us that it had proven itself in the FRC market.

Eugene Volokh

It doesn't limit itself to defamation. The principle is the same, whether it's libel or discrimination.

Thomas Lynch

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

Terry Teachout

I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.

Bill Brooks

He's a big fella. It just doesn't lend itself to the symmetry of the park,

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Win Bates

Our morale has been pretty good. Everyone's been supportive throughout our many practices.

Tony Blair

I think there is a proper sense of moral outrage at what Milosevic has done that we should not shy away from but should be proud of feeling.

Chris Johns

Just for morale and confidence, this was a big game. I'd still like to see us score some more goals, but this is a start.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Sela Ward

From a morality point of view, I wouldn't even go near, ... But in terms of making an interesting show, I'm sure they'll have to struggle with it.

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Al Gore

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

will.i.am

If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.

Oswald Chambers

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

Ella Maillart

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Michel Gauthier

Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

John McEnroe

I think it can. The powers that be, IMG, the ATP, need to work together more coherently.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Stephen Kinzer

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

Buzz Hargrove

If you devolve all the powers to the provinces, what do you have left?

Brian Kelly

We all are going to outplay and outperform what we do and it's up to the powers that be to recognize that and acknowledge that.

Walter Rodgers

powers at work about which we have no knowledge.

Matt Mauck

All I know is the powers that be selected us to be in this game. We just received the trophy.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

Frank Tyger

Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them

Tu'u Seva'aetasi

Reputation does not get you a win. Right now, we are doing enough. But at some point, we'll need to turn it up.

Charles Churchill

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Ben Jonson

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Ben Kuehne

This tarnishes his reputation in ways that are just unfair and unauthorized.

Alice Lowe

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

Albert Bandura

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

Alexander Pope

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Mike Tice

I think the sooner the better for all involved.

J. Horton

I think there is a sense that, sooner or later, this will happen.

Debbie Saslow

I think it's way too soon to talk about a cure.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Alex Newell

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Leah Gingrich

I was in there as soon as they would let me in.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Antoine Rivarol

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Philip Hoffman

But because of his intelligence, his wit and his insightfulness and his kind of all-consuming warmth, that would go away.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Peter Higgs

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.