Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Chertoff

We need more than brute enforcement, ... We need a temporary worker program as well.

Tina Brown

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

Abel Korzeniowski

Exterminate all the brutes!

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

E. Housman

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

Kwabena Boahen

When I tried to figure out how computers worked, I was disgusted. I thought it was totally brute force. I felt there had to be a more elegant way to do this.

Roilo Golez

We realize that at the end of the day the majority can railroad this and use brute force, use the tyranny of numbers,

Eduardo Galeano

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Bob Davis

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

Diane Hochevar

It depresses me. It surprises me that the majority would not want to protect a viable unborn child.

Jim Owen

I would say the majority of those are opposed at this point in time,

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Wayne Cornelius

The overwhelming majority would go one way or another.

Michael Stoops

The overwhelming majority of perpetrators are teens and young adults. We need to start with young people in public and private schools.

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Alan Cayetano

Mr. Chairman, let us not railroad this hearing.

Jim Clarke

We've got the tile like the old tile in the subway, ... It's like it was in the old railroad station.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Harriet Tubman

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Paul Samuelson

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Mark Twain

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Peter Dinklage

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Stephen Hill

Later, we realized if we don't get some supplies, we're going to starve,

Lynndie England

I was used by Pvt. Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

Zack Greinke

I don't even realize how long it's been,

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Albert Einstein

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Margaret Thatcher

Tyranny must not prevail.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

John Paul Stevens

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Thomas Paine

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

Stefan Molyneux

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

Tennessee Williams

I know all about the tyranny of women.