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,

Bob Schindler

People like Terry, who was disabled, and the elderly, are being victimized, brutally victimized. They're dying and no one knows about it.

Mike Farrell

It is an ugly, brutal development, ... a good and smart and decent professional.

Bruno Heller

I think it was a brutal time filled with people who were strangely sophisticated and uncivilized. Over the years movies tended to take a Victorian gentleman's view of this world ù all marbleized sets and men. But Caesar was a great warrior and writer and a war criminal, by our definition. ...There was a dichotomy between sophistication and viciousness that was specifically Roman.

Gabrielle Richards

I think this will be really big for our confidence after those brutal losses. This is a quality school in a quality league.

Edward Olmos

It is brutal - brutal - when you see what happened to them, ... You simply go, 'Wait a minute - this was not shown to anyone?'

David Naude

I don't interpret this as a sign of recovery in activity. Rather, the increase in unemployment of the last six to eight months has been too brutal and exaggerated not to generate this type of correction.

Christopher Cox

He is, of course, a brutal thug, ... Late Edition.

Stephen Hall

This was one of the most brutal and heinous crimes committed in the county, ... I do, frankly, feel sorry for your family.

Tangee Overly

I can't lie and say that I'm sorry that this conclusion happened because I'm not. Dan was very brutally murdered.

Bruce George

Regrettably, despite some efforts which were undertaken to improve the process, the authorities did not exhibit sufficient political will to hold a genuinely good election.

Sal Guatieri

Price pressures were fairly mild, despite the economy operating flat out.

Mike Dubbelde

Our relationship with the parents so far has been great. Despite being a new sport, the fundraising and support has really been there.

John Longworth

Some held earlier and longer summer sales despite margins already being very tight, but there has been little sign in this survey of a response from consumers.

Melissa Richardson

Our team has always thought we were going to do as well as we did. We set our goals high. We had winning league and going to state on our goal sheet. So despite what everyone else thought, we thought we could.

Sushmita Banerjee

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Jay Bavlish

That was a microcosm of our whole season. I couldn't put it any clearer. We dug ourselves a hole and despite the effort, we couldn't get out.

Mike Harper

I was proud of our kids. They found a way to win despite losing a starter right before the game.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Steve Martin

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.

Bryce Dallas Howard

There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.

Diane Paulus

It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

Melissa McCarthy

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

Erin Morgenstern

Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.

Dolly Wells

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.

Michael Welch

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

Max Messmer

A good manager identifies ways to mitigate routine problems and respond quickly to unexpected ones, freeing up more time for bigger-picture issues.

Michael Shifter

Relations are probably at their lowest point. Things have gotten very bad. The two governments are on a collision course.

Danny Zelisko

Supply and demand. They've gotten older, we've gotten older, and now we have the money to spend on the shows to keep up with them.

Lorrie Miller

Some of our longtime residents are offended that they have to show us two forms. But because of (the policy), we've pretty much gotten to the point that it's an impossibility to do any more.

David Pearson

Some have gotten very angry, however, ... That's the reality.

Bob Rice

Our $20 drive-offs have gotten to $50 now, thanks to the higher prices.

Andre Agassi

Robby's improved a lot, ... He's gotten a lot smarter with his game. ... I was very impressed with how he's improved since last time I've played him.

Robbie Tobeck

I'm impressed with the group, as a unit. The protection Matt has gotten and obviously the yardage Shaun is piling up, you've got to put it right on them. It's the identity of our team.

Tanyon Sturtze

I was a little sore that week or so, but I think I've gotten over that hump and I'm back to where I was before, ... I feel great.

Roger Toussaint

I will do 30 years before transit workers surrender. Working people have tried to obey the law, and we have gotten nothing but insults for it.

Pete Carroll

Reggie just tried too hard on that play and he'll regret it forever. Reggie was just trying to get a TD.

Linda Ronstadt

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

John Berlin

(Paul) is a perfectionist. She works so hard on hurdles and it really shows.

Malik Rose

Part of me thinks Larry likes it, people not knowing what he wants or whatever. All I know is I go as hard as I can when I'm out there. Sometimes, things just don't go your way.

Bertrand Russel

Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor

Dan Rucker

Our motto is play hard to play another day.

Steven Lopez

People in the U.S. didn't know what taekwondo was. But they saw what the Lopezes were able to do with all the love and support and hard work we put in, and what we accomplished. It makes me feel real lucky to be in a position like that.

David Walton

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

Samantha Morton

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Lawrence Eagles

Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

Muqtada Sadr

We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility... to keep Iraq's unity and safety.

Bayan Jabor

We as Iraqis are responsible for solving our own problems,

Sherrod Brown

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

James Dobbins

Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Frank Tashlin

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Blake Shelton

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Yoshiharu Izumi

This seems to justify the Westinghouse acquisition from a strategic perspective.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Abdullah Ocalan

Our movement is the liberation movement of the Turkish people,

Abdullah Ocalan

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

Marianne Williamson

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Atharva Veda

Contemplating and meditating on the 'real-self' accelerates this process of self-development and makes liberation possible.

Granth Sahib

They perform all sorts of rituals, but they do not obtain liberation through them. They wander around the countryside, and in love with duality, they are ruined.

Ian Smith

The legislation is so draconian it even surpasses Ian Smith's own legislation during the liberation struggle.

Pico Iyer

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Susan Faludi

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

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.

Carl Sagan

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

Ben Jorgensen

I was kind of stuck in that place where the only thing I could write about was through the perspective of me being dead, What to Do When You Are Dead.

Matthew Pinsent

I can't really get any perspective on it at the moment,

Nick Ingelbrecht

From a practical perspective, any telecom manufacturer has to have a big position in China.

Larry Brown

From my perspective, it's a big step forward.

Jonathan Burns

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

Brian Smith

From our perspective it would be a positive.

Jonathan Littman

From most of these shows you get a different perspective,

David Wagler

From his perspective we know what he would have said -- he had no regrets.