Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. L. R. James

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

Ray Jennings

The perception that the wicket was flat played a part (in the way South Africa bowled),

Kofi Annan

We are pressing ahead with our contingency planning and we hope to be ready to work with the African Union as we move forward to the implementation of the anticipated decision by the (UN) Security Council that we push ahead with the transition.

Rande Gerber

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

Bill Clinton

We stopped thinking about what the world should do for Africa and we started thinking about what we could do with Africans.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Nnedi Okorafor

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Edward James Olmos

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Eden Phillpotts

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

John Prendergast

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

Warren Haynes

Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life,

Brigham Young

This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.

Brian Tracy

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Allen Newton

We're about out of industrial property at the interstate. It's one of those things when you're looking for property, you need a lot.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

Al Jourgensen

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

Brian Rogers

The prospective is amazing. You really get the feel of looking down on this Pittsburgh industrial neighborhood.

John Coniglio

There is a real promise for this product for the industrial market.

John Rhys-Davies

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

Jacques Chirac

must seek to take the lead in industrial and research innovation.

Steven Johnson

I think you need to lower your industrial tax rates.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Alan Greenspan

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

Chris Christie

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

Chiranjeevi

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

David Mitchell

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

David Kim

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.

David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Aristotle

Those who act receive the prizes.

Marcus Aurelius

To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

Andre Agassi

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Evan Hirsche

We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

Alfred Bea

The $500,000 is the top prize in that game.