Quotes and Sayings about Ants
"On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: End, Giants)
"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Abortion, Right, State, Woman)
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
- Hal Abelson
(Related: Giants)
"Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Military)
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Men, Power, Husbands)
"Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: God, Goodness)
"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Work, Company, Credibility, Dumb)
"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man)
"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Desire, Lust, Pleasure, Self, Wrong)
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Men, Ideas, Ants, Pursuit)
"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Happiness, Thought)
"The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Ability, Actions, Country, Present)
"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Guilt)
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."
- Aesop
(Related: Fire, Water)
"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
- Aesop
(Related: Today, Tomorrow)
"Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart."
- John Agar
(Related: America, First, Man)
"There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Government, Talent, Crisis, Losing, Public)
"Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Experience, America, Country, Palestine, Today)
"It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character."
- Alan Alda
(Related: Character, Actor, Defeat, Fun, Want)
"They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it."
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(Related: Life, Chance, Country)
"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
- Charles M. Allen
(Related: Technology, Hell, Help, Race)
"Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Government, People, Bureaucracy, Planning, Will)
"Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Power, Mercury, Plants, Pollution)
"God grants an easy death only to the just."
- Svetlana Alliluyeva
(Related: Death, God)
"This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem."
- Eric Allman
(Related: Technology, People, First, Want)
"People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy."
- Summer Altice
(Related: Life, People, Jealousy, Pretty)
"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Son, Poor)
"Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Help, Restaurants, Shops)
"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."
- Jeff Ament
(Related: Play)
"I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Taste)
"The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person."
- Benny Anderson
(Related: Time, Work, America, England)
"Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: People, Hope, Americans, Columbus, Country, Ocean, Want)
"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Job, Jobs, Research, Restaurants, Writer)
"I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager, Boston)
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
- Giulio Andreotti
(Related: Giants, Limits, Living, World)
"Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants."
- Yuri Andropov
(Related: War, Earth, Man, Trying, Will)
"Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived."
- Walter Annenberg
(Related: Liberty, Rest)
"Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school."
- Walter Annenberg
(Related: Kids, Public, School, World)
"Thank God we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Men, Women, God, Europe)
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: God, People, Distrust)
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: God, People, Distrust)
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
- David Antin
(Related: Thinking)
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Being, Difference, Film, Mind, Result)
"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: People)
"I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Politics, Entertainment)
"My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him."
- Dick Armey
"Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Religion, Society, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Liberal)
"It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: Christian, Blessings, Duty, Lust, World)
"In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Land)
"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret."
- Mary Kay Ash
"The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be."
- John Ashbery
"I think one wants lots of different lives."
- Jane Asher
"Why would people spend good money to have my pants?"
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Money, People)
"My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do."
- John Astin
(Related: Work, Dreams, People, Ideas, Actor, Encouragement)
"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Hollywood, Press)
"Everybody wants to be like everybody else."
- Christopher Atkins
"I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry."
- Robert Atkins
"You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past."
- Tom Atkins
(Related: People, Giants, Past, Stars)
"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
- Rowan Atkinson
(Related: Life, Bizarre, Man)
"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Animals, Environment, Plants)
"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."
- Red Auerbach
(Related: Plants, Study)
"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Mind)
"While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile."
- Alan Autry
(Related: Food, Plants, Value)
"As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form."
- Avicenna
"No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs."
- David Axelrod
(Related: Medical, Drugs, Want)
"I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement."
- David Axelrod
(Related: Values, Country, Ideals, Job)
"In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Government, Fact, Security)
"Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Government, Americans, Freedom, Land, Native Americans, Now, Principles, Separation, Speech, states, United)
"The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Act, Crisis, Energy, Help, Nation, School)
"As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: America, Cities, Jobs, states)
"Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Health, Society, Financial, Beginning, Class, Exploitation, Play, Rules, Workers)
"The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Growth, Jobs, State, Taxes, Wage)
"Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Law)
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Experience, Plants, Study)
"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: History, Time, Shipwreck)
"War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants."
- Michael Badnarik
(Related: War, Needs)
"I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early."
- Max Baer
(Related: Home, Fear)
"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
(Related: Land, Mystery, Plants, Sea, Variety)
"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves."
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
(Related: Opportunity, Children, Garden, Plants, Will)
"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
(Related: Attention, Effort, Garden, Intentions, Labor, Plants)
"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
- Pearl Bailey
(Related: First, Help)
"I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Revenge, Waking, Want)
"Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants."
- Nicholson Baker
(Related: Restaurants)
"A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Boston, Guests, Now, Restaurants, Will, Years)
"One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife."
- Robert T. Bakker
(Related: African, Danger, Wildlife)
"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: Morality, Dignity, Freedom)
"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Time, Greed, Needs, Sense, Want, Writer)
"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Future, Heaven, Now)
"A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."
- Stanley Baldwin
(Related: Time, Experience, Courage, Vision, First, Months, Patience)
"To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Faith, Love, Nature, God)
"It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Calculations, Giants, Man, Race)
"I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: People, Restaurants)
"Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Americans, Congress, Creation, Economy, Tax, Hurt, Job, Jobs, Majority, Will)
"There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now."
- Julian Barbour
(Related: Time, Now, Question, Universe)
"We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened."
- Travis Barker
(Related: Play, Skill)
"Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too."
- Travis Barker
"When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child."
- Ellen Barkin
(Related: Love, Mother, Baby)
"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall."
- J. M. Barrie
(Related: Equality, May, Will)
"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."
- James M. Barrie
(Related: Equality, May, Will)
"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Golf, Open, Today)
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
- Roland Barthes
(Related: Passion, Public)
"Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Work)
"The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Time, Restaurants, Winter)
"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."
- John Barton
(Related: Change, Poetry, Effect, Past)
"I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams."
- Jacques Barzun
(Related: Heart, America, Baseball, First, Mind, Rules, School)
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
- Saint Basil
(Related: Love, Friendship, Courtesy, Deed, Deeds, Kindness, Man, Plants)
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone."
- Frederic Bastiat
(Related: Forget, State)
"Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them."
- Georges Bataille
(Related: Dreams, Despair, Results, Violence, Weakness)
"There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat."
- Mario Batali
(Related: Art, Battle, Customer)
"No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants."
- Alan Bates
(Related: People, Film, Public)
"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Religion, Language, Liberty, Man)
"I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Love, Time, Gardening, Autumn, Plants, Trees)
"The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Politics, Power, Right, Talking, Today)
"Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings."
- Thomas Becket
(Related: Faith, God, People, Harvest, Now, Plants, Water)
"I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people."
- Harry Belafonte
(Related: Power, Truth, People, Will)
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Power, Man, Mind, State)
"The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy."
- Chris Bell
(Related: People, American, Delay, Democracy, Police, Protection, Public, Self)
"I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: Age, Son, Poor)
"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: America, Fight, Freedom, Weapons)
"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Goal)
"Whoever wants to understand much must play much."
- Gottfried Benn
(Related: Play)
"Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality."
- Arnold Bennett
(Related: Heaven, Hell, Reality)
"Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Money, Success, Wealth)
"The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece."
- James Theodore Bent
(Related: Belief, Greece)
"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."
- Jeremy Bentham
(Related: Time, Day, Earth, Hell, Living, Will)
"But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems."
- Paul Berg
(Related: Events, Plants)
"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
- Jeffrey Bernard
(Related: Being, Day, Lying, Nothing)
"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
- Tristan Bernard
(Related: Theatre)
"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."
- Ruth Bernhard
(Related: Nature, Clouds, Energy, Harmony, Plants)
"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Actor, Appearance, Play)
"One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it."
- Elmer Bernstein
(Related: Business, Success, Successful)
"So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here."
- Alvah Bessie
(Related: Home)
"The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges."
- Benazir Bhutto
(Related: Military)
"Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Education, Time, Behavior, Care, Problems, Research, School)
"Every actor wants to direct."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Actor)
"As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Family, Right, Woman)
"One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Affectation, Man, Pride)
"Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Influence, Woman)
"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Advice, Man)
"Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Time, Man, Misery, Years)
"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Life, Man, Ruin)
"Let tyrants shake their iron rod."
- William Billings
"People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Truth, People, Actors)
"I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Ideas, Preparation, Will)
"This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer."
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Plants)
"The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants."
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Diet, Plants)
"Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'."
- Bill Bixby
(Related: World)
"Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants."
- Cofer Black
(Related: War, American, Osama bin laden, states, United, Words)
"When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?"
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Hell, Wonder)
"In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants."
- Lewis Black
(Related: Evolution, Plants, Voting, Years)
"In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'."
- Tony Blair
"Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion."
- Eubie Blake
(Related: Trust, Friend, Emotion, Envy)
"And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence."
- William Peter Blatty
(Related: Truth, Career, Comedy, Existence, Memory)
"Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution."
- William Bligh
(Related: Caution, Now, Plants)
"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."
- William Bligh
(Related: Beginning, Day, First, Pleasure)
"The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Progress, Public)
"Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel."
- Earl Blumenauer
(Related: Friend, Congress, Future, Israel, Opposition, Security, Terror, United)
"If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident."
- Manute Bol
(Related: God, Accident, Kids, Play)
"There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Body)
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Office, Plants)
"I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation."
- Chastity Bono
(Related: People, Needs)
"As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Government, People, Congress, Responsibility)
"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
- Alain de Botton
(Related: Marriage)
"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."
- James Bovard
(Related: Enemy, Example, Scandal)
"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Education, Religion, Belief, Christian, Christmas, Kids, Schools, Years)
"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Culture, Kids, School)
"Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Peace, Time, Duty, Help, Law, Public, Safety)
"I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man."
- Bruce Boxleitner
(Related: Character, Actor, Leading, Man)
"Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem."
- Allen Boyd
(Related: War, Encouraging, America, Authority, Congress, Diplomacy, Needs, President, Solution)
"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do."
- Arthur Boyd
(Related: Art)
"Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: Problems)
"Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens."
- Susan Boyle
(Related: Love, Dream, Queen, Royalty, Singing, Variety, Will)
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Power, Wisdom, Conscience, Giants, World)
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: War, Peace, Giants, Killing, Living, World)
"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Design, God, Work, World)
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
- Louis D. Brandeis
(Related: Light, Publicity)
"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Life, Animals, Open, Plants)
"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."
- Bill Brandt
(Related: Experience, Effect, Instinct, Light, Treatment)
"I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Business, Feeling)
"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."
- Wernher von Braun
(Related: Mother, Thought, Boys, First)
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: People, Ants, Butterflies, Leisure)
"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Government)
"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Whim)
"It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people."
- John Bright
(Related: People, Church, Irish, Minority, Population, United)
"Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?"
- Peter Brimelow
(Related: End, Open, Restaurants, Schools, Teachers)
"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children."
- Peter Brimelow
(Related: Business, Children, Guest, Taxes, Will, Workers)
"Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones."
- David Brin
(Related: Universe)
"Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world."
- Sergey Brin
(Related: Successful, Being, Difference, Want, World)
"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
- Poppy Z. Brite
(Related: Food, HusbDiversity, Restaurants)
"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
- David Broder
(Related: Office, Presidency, Years)
"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Love, People, Being, Public)
"FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Gain, Job, Majority, Nothing, Today)
"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."
- James Broughton
(Related: Act, Bitterness)
"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Generations)
"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"
- David R. Brower
(Related: Bed, Reason, Wrong)
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
- A. Whitney Brown
(Related: Love, Animals, Hate, Plants)
"No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear."
- Aaron Brown
(Related: Truth, Want)
"A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember."
- John Mason Brown
"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
- Sam Brownback
(Related: Common sense, Effort, Oil, Public, Want)
"You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants."
- Harry Browne
(Related: Government, Power, Fact, Giving)
"The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence."
- John Bruton
(Related: Intelligence, Terrorism)
"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."
- Martin Buber
(Related: God, Quality, Being, Man)
"A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it."
- Art Buchwald
(Related: American, Talk)
"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."
- Pearl S. Buck
(Related: Age, Grave, May, Meditation, Old, World)
"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Crowds)
"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Talent, Purpose, Mankind)
"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."
- Luther Burbank
(Related: Attention, Children, Jungle, Living, Now, Plants)
"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Heart, Virtue, Moderation, Shame, Will)
"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Policy, Kings, Will)
"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Want)
"But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do."
- Solomon Burke
(Related: Financial, Managers, Right)
"The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Dreams, Work, Advertising, Deals, Needs)
"I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Boss, Advertising, Creation, Trying)
"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Music, Emotions, End)
"If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?"
- Marian Burros
(Related: Dress, Kitchen, Restaurants)
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Love, Care, Nothing)
"The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do."
- William S. Burroughs
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Power, Plants, Result)
"Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Fear, Freedom)
"I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Intelligence, Pretty, Respect)
"If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: God, People, Attention, Will, Wishes)
"The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all."
- Rocco Buttiglione
(Related: Religion, State)
"The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money."
- Robert Byrd
(Related: Money, American, Iraq, President, Security, Will)
"Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?"
- David Byrne
"Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them."
- James Caan
(Related: God, Actor, Actors, Hurt, Want)
"Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment."
- Scott Caan
(Related: Compliment)
"These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime."
- Giraldus Cambrensis
(Related: People, Being, Cunning, Intellect, Quick, Understanding)
"I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living."
- James Cameron
(Related: Bicycles, Evening, Living, Magic, Sun, World)
"If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: God, America, Country)
"I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: Time, People, Israel, Justice, State)
"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Hope, Actions, Desire, Man, Will)
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
- Albert Camus
(Related: People, Welfare)
"Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips."
- John Candy
"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
- Elias Canetti
(Related: Man, Nothing)
"God uses whoever he wants."
- Dyan Cannon
(Related: God)
"I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Being, Needs)
"Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel."
- Karel Capek
(Related: God, Victory, Ants)
"No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs."
- Kate Capshaw
(Related: Reason, Want)
"God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all."
- George Carey
(Related: God)
"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."
- Mariah Carey
(Related: Time, People, Singing, World)
"I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle to get at Saudi Arabia. I think Osama bin Laden really wants to topple that regime and have his people move in, but that's a whole other story."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: People, Hate, Osama bin laden)
"Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him."
- Stokely Carmichael
(Related: People, Ability, Choice, Rights, Man, Want, Will)
"In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Security)
"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."
- Andrew Carnegie
(Related: Business, Credit, Will)
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
- Andrew Carnegie
(Related: Leader, Credit, Man, Will)
"That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories."
- Thomas Carper
(Related: Learning, Now, Plants, Will)
"You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it."
- Eric Carr
(Related: Kiss, Attitude, Girls)
"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Want)
"The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child."
- Jonathan Carroll
(Related: Government, Time, Public, Smile, World)
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Government, Wisdom, People, Right, Will)
"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Happiness, Life, Survival, Rights, Human rights, Liberty, Pursuit, Spiritual)
"The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character."
- Rene Cassin
(Related: Character, Rights)
"Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel."
- Margaret Cavendish
(Related: Children, Giving, Necessity, Reason)
"My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery."
- Margaret Cavendish
(Related: Mother, Care)
"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Want)
"I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day."
- Jim Caviezel
(Related: Day)
"My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: states, United)
"A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results."
- Bennett Cerf
(Related: Results)
"Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Giants)
"One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves."
- Miguel De Cervantes
"There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them."
- Eugene Chadbourne
(Related: Building, Folk, Songs)
"Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?"
- George Chakiris
(Related: Open, Restaurants)
"I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life."
- Richard Chamberlain
(Related: Life, Time, Necessity, Saying)
"All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it."
- Jimmy Chamberlin
(Related: Change, Music, Day, Practice, Want)
"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Men, Women, Mother, Longing, World)
"Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe."
- Iris Chang
(Related: Country, Europe, Now)
"The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Thought, Books, Interest, Man, Mind)
"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."
- Charlie Chaplin
(Related: Thought, Dress)
"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."
- Charlie Chaplin
(Related: Career, Public)
"Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change."
- Steven Curtis Chapman
(Related: Change, Music, Country, Country music, Production, Will)
"Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default."
- Chevy Chase
"Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses."
- Linda Chavez
(Related: War, Afghanistan, Enemy, Rights, Human rights, Iraq, states, Terror, United)
"Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision."
- Michael Chertoff
(Related: Decision, Congress, Formula, State)
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Difference, Man)
"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Apology, Hurt, Insult, Party, Want)
"Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Enemy, Houses, Suicide)
"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."
- Noam Chomsky
(Related: People, Fear, Control, Crime, Drugs, Mothers, Welfare)
"Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Women, Work, Courage, Christian, Bravery, Respect, Years)
"My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Fight, Now, World)
"Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Love, Fool, Man, Woman)
"Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: War, Man, Now, Soldiers)
"Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy."
- Jennie Churchill
(Related: Life, Being)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Truth, Lie, Chance, World)
"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: War, Giants, Will)
"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Judges, Law, Laws, May, Rest)
"I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private."
- Sandra Cisneros
(Related: Balance, Now, Public, Trying)
"If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Honor, Spirit, Will)
"I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl."
- Kelly Clarkson
(Related: God, People, American, Cute, Hate, Reason)
"Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Men, Force, Night)
"Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold."
- Adam Clayton
(Related: Men)
"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all."
- Eldridge Cleaver
(Related: Prison)
"Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made."
- Grover Cleveland
(Related: People, Laws, Public)
"Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life."
- Brian Clough
(Related: Life, Hell, Holiday)
"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn."
- Irvin S. Cobb
(Related: Humor, Tragedy)
"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
- William Cobbett
(Related: Greatness, Man)
"And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier."
- Tom Coburn
(Related: Science, Thought, Fact, Today)
"In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too."
- Johnnie Cochran
(Related: Family, People, Thinking)
"I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may."
- Jarvis Cocker
(Related: Women, Day, May, Post, Stress)
"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Admiration)
"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Actor, Content, Paris)
"Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change."
- Andrew Cohen
(Related: Change)
"I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy."
- Nat King Cole
(Related: Day, Musicians, Night, Trying)
"It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense."
- Ornette Coleman
(Related: Work, Sense)
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Animals, Man)
"Your real self - the "I am I" - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm."
- Robert Collier
(Related: Power, Land, Self)
"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do."
- Robin G. Collingwood
(Related: Work, Freedom, Man)
"All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie."
- Jackie Collins
(Related: Money, Movies, Books, Potential, Question)
"And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Fashion, Football, Want)
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Wealth)
"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Men, War, Loss, Principles)
"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Mind)
"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
- Bill Condon
(Related: Actor, Actors, Being, Needs)
"I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books."
- Michael Connelly
(Related: Books, Past, Writer)
"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Power, Trust, Argument, Right, Sense, Sound, Word)
"Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked."
- Robert Conrad
(Related: Character, Light, Years)
"The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite."
- John Conyers
(Related: Truth, Legislation, Republicans, Years)
"These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges."
- Alistair Cooke
(Related: War, Soldiers, World, World war)
"Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode."
- Gary Cooper
(Related: Man)
"They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph."
- Jackie Cooper
(Related: Beginning, Hair)
"Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Nature, God, Cats, Culture, Internet, Talk)
"All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Friends)
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
- Bernard Cornwell
(Related: Internet)
"We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings."
- Andrea Corr
(Related: Life, Ants, Queen, Want)
"An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes."
- Hernando Cortes
(Related: Body, Water)
"Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love."
- Jon Corzine
(Related: Love, Values, Deeds, Nation, Public, Words)
"Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water."
- Jim Costa
(Related: Technology, Quality, Plants, Water)
"When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Being, Man, Religious, Right, Taxes)
"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Change, Life, Choice, Principles)
"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."
- Noel Coward
(Related: Fact, Memory)
"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."
- William Cowper
(Related: God, Footsteps, Plants, Sea, Wonders)
"The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to."
- Robert Creeley
(Related: End, Necessity)
"Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected."
- Martin Van Creveld
(Related: War, People, Majority)
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: God, People, Ireland, Woman)
"Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big."
- David Crosby
(Related: Lawyers, Now)
"I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way."
- Jon Crosby
(Related: Want)
"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
- Samuel McChord Crothers
(Related: Prose, Writer, Writing)
"Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home."
- Cameron Crowe
(Related: Home, Music, Challenge, Song)
"I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much."
- Penelope Cruz
(Related: Love, Life, Truth, Job, Lies, Sleep, Whisper)
"The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress."
- Caleb Cushing
(Related: Power, People, Congress, Constitution, Right)
"I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what."
- Miley Cyrus
(Related: Dad, Mom)
"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
- Roald Dahl
(Related: Needs, Writer)
"The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people."
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: People, Nationality, Party)
"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Business, Soul, Heart, Chicago, Community, Spirit)
"And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Time, People, Country, Philosophy)
"It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants."
- Matt Damon
"My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive."
- Rodney Dangerfield
(Related: Car, Sex, Wife)
"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't."
- Rodney Dangerfield
(Related: Hope, Fight, Man, Reform, World)
"The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures."
- Rick Danko
"Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey."
- Godfried Danneels
(Related: Intelligence, Civilization, Audiences, Doubt, Fantasy, Islands)
"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."
- Joe Dante
(Related: Bugs, Journey, Want)
"I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: People, Editors, May, Will)
"The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'"
- Alvin Dark
(Related: Giants)
"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything."
- Clarence Darrow
(Related: Opinions, World)
"Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman."
- Larry David
(Related: Man, Trying, Woman)
"The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore."
- Larry David
(Related: Change)
"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
- Robertson Davies
(Related: Art, Belief, Literary, Spirit)
"The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people."
- Angela Davis
(Related: Death, People)
"Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists."
- Colin R. Davis
(Related: Success, Artists, Celebrity)
"I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine."
- Fred Davis
(Related: Time, People, Being, Games, Popular)
"Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Power, End, Plants)
"We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Power, Plants, Summer, Years)
"Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Government, Money, People, Bed, Energy, Fight)
"So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Power, First, Plants)
"I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Government, People, Building, Conservation, Energy, Plants)
"I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure."
- Danielle Dax
(Related: Nature, Time, People, Heroes, Human nature, Insecurity, Want)
"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."
- Clarence Day
(Related: Ants, First)
"But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?"
- Thomas Day
(Related: Peace, War, America, Inventions)
"Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Now, states, United)
"The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Babies, states, United)
"All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it."
- Dizzy Dean
(Related: Careers, Giants, Help, Want, Wind)
"All men would be tyrants if they could."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Men)
"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Men, Nature, Blood)
"Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow."
- Ellen DeGeneres
(Related: Old, Woman)
"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can."
- Eugene Delacroix
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay."
- Dana Delany
(Related: Life, People, Kids, Pets, Plants)
"The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Energy, Priorities, State, states)
"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: Life)
"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."
- Michael Dell
(Related: Design, Selling, Care, Customer, Linux, Windows)
"If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools."
- Jim DeMint
(Related: Gay, Public, Schools, Teaching)
"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Security, states)
"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Movies, Friends, Restaurants)
"I may have a feather duster down my pants."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: May)
"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Love, Dogs)
"The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth."
- Alan Dershowitz
(Related: Truth, Defense, Job, Jury)
"The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions."
- Alan Dershowitz
(Related: Questions, Will)
"Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed."
- Anita Desai
(Related: Athletes, Day, Effort, Practice, Sense, Writing)
"It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth."
- Morarji Desai
(Related: Life, Truth, Fact, Will)
"If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others."
- Morarji Desai
(Related: Man, Pain, Want)
"Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north."
- Jared Diamond
(Related: Animals, Plants)
"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Crowds, Eye, Eyes, Smile)
"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Imagination, Memory)
"If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could."
- Joe DiMaggio
(Related: Family, Kids)
"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."
- Isak Dinesen
(Related: Nature, Abundance, Ants, Evil, Horror)
"The mob is the mother of tyrants."
- Diogenes
(Related: Mother, Mob)
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Sympathy, Feelings, Thoughts, Habits, Nations, Poor)
"Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Favorite, Restaurants)
"Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry."
- Dorothy Dix
(Related: Kiss)
"The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control."
- Bill Dixon
(Related: Music, Control, Being, Magic, Musicians, Succeed)
"Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Children, Help, Potential)
"I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!"
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Care, Public)
"Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Education, Possibility, Students, Tools)
"We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend."
- Betty Dodson
(Related: Intelligence, Men, Girlfriend, Ego, Man, Sensitivity)
"The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good."
- Betty Dodson
(Related: Media)
"If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard."
- Shannen Doherty
(Related: Power)
"I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own."
- Shannen Doherty
(Related: Business)
"I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity."
- Ray Dolby
(Related: Business, Opportunity, Desire)
"For infants and toddlers learning and living are the same thing. If they feel secure, treasured, loved, their own energy and curiosity will bring them new understanding and new skills."
- Amy Laura Dombro
(Related: Curiosity, Energy, Learning, Living, Understanding, Will)
"Your child should feel entitled to cry when you leave; crying is a natural thing for a child to do when she feels bad. The fact that your child cries when you go doesn't mean she will never like day care. It just means she wants you to stay."
- Amy Laura Dombro
(Related: Care, Day, Fact, Will)
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Public)
"My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it."
- Vincent D'Onofrio
(Related: Ireland)
"Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me."
- Richard Dooling
(Related: Money, Care, Children, First, Mothers)
"Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth."
- Mark Van Doren
(Related: Humor, Truth, Man, Nothing, Sense)
"I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea."
- Kyan Douglas
(Related: Idea, Feeling, Plants)
"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
(Related: Necessity, Talk)
"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."
- Mary Douglas
(Related: Religion, Society, God, Community, Harm)
"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
- William O. Douglas
(Related: Nixon)
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
- Frederick Douglass
(Related: Endurance, Limits)
"I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself."
- Hugh Downs
(Related: Thought, Creation, Man, Old)
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
(Related: Man, Rest)
"Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it."
- Fran Drescher
(Related: Being, Events, Famous, Restaurants)
"If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?"
- Marie Dressler
(Related: Time, Ants, Workers)
"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."
- Helen Dunmore
(Related: Opponents, Want)
"My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed."
- Philip Dunne
(Related: Deep, Woman)
"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."
- Lawrence Durrell
(Related: World)
"There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser."
- Buenaventura Durruti
(Related: Victory, Class, Freedom, Tyranny)
"There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants."
- Eliza Dushku
(Related: Attitude)
"The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: God, Contrast, Saints)
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Success, Money, Bed, Man, Night)
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Success, Bed, Man, Night)
"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Success, Bed, Night)
"One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff."
- George Eads
(Related: Death, Lady)
"That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Strategy, Racing)
"Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants."
- Shirin Ebadi
(Related: Job, Lawyers, Security)
"Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants."
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
(Related: Being, Sound)
"She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember."
- Dick Ebersol
(Related: First, Meeting, Pretty)
"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."
- Aaron Eckhart
(Related: Content, Now, Right, Violence)
"I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point."
- Aaron Eckhart
(Related: Actor)
"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."
- Meister Eckhart
(Related: God, Heart, Man)
"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."
- Thomas A. Edison
(Related: Body, Community)
"We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look."
- Adrian Edmondson
(Related: Girls, Quick)
"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."
- Tryon Edwards
(Related: Death, Grave, Heaven, May)
"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Artists, Giants, Years)
"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Computers, Now, Software, Years)
"Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: Family, Life, Work, Quality, Opportunity, Financial, Building, Healthcare, Schools, Security)
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Art, Leadership, Want)
"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Life, Men, People, Hope, Europe, Israel, Land, State, Will)
"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Man, President)
"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough."
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
(Related: Work)
"It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do."
- Danny Elfman
(Related: Hate)
"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."
- George Eliot
(Related: Strength, Man, Will, Woman)
"That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise."
- George Eliot
(Related: Wife, Fool, Man)
"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Age, Hearing, Mercy, Now, Sense)
"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."
- Larry Ellison
(Related: Intelligence, People, Wealth, America, Man, Right)
"The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation."
- Jacques Ellul
(Related: Work, First, Today, Woman, World)
"Elephants are contagious."
- Paul Eluard
"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Self)
"Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area."
- Todd English
(Related: Wife, Europe, Restaurants, Traveling)
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
- Epictetus
(Related: Wealth, Possessions)
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Architecture, Choice, Research)
"The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Values, Disease)
"In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes."
- John Erskine
(Related: Leader)
"Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face."
- Susan Estrich
(Related: Women, Being)
"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
- Joe Eszterhas
(Related: People, Marketing)
"It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants."
- Jeffrey Eugenides
(Related: First)
"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."
- Robert Evans
(Related: Creativity, Principles, Will)
"Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health."
- Robert Evans
(Related: Health, Aesthetics, Attention)
"The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Tourists)
"The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player."
- Ron Fairly
(Related: Quality, Giants, Trade)
"When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say."
- Edie Falco
(Related: Attention)
"I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case."
- Dennis Farina
(Related: People)
"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Danger, Needs, Nothing, Want)
"The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be."
- William Feather
(Related: Men, Advertising, Man, Observation, Old, Philosophy)
"Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it."
- William Feather
(Related: Applause, Man, Old, Speech)
"Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand."
- Ferdowsi
(Related: Jewels)
"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(Related: Power, American, Europe)
"People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors."
- Geraldine Ferraro
(Related: People, Disasters)
"Give the lady what she wants!"
- Marshall Field
(Related: Lady)
"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."
- Dorothy Fields
(Related: Time, Women, Careers, Doctors, Lady, Lawyers, Reason)
"There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Policy, Fascism, Today, Welfare)
"Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one."
- W. C. Fields
(Related: Women, Want)
"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Actor, Want)
"As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture."
- Bob Filner
(Related: Legal, Congress, Culture, Debate, Economy, Nation)
"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."
- David Fincher
(Related: Movies, People, Idea, Deals, Years)
"Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes."
- Werner Finck
(Related: Government)
"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Related: Events, Plants, Trees, Words)
"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."
- Ernst Fischer
(Related: Art, Change, Faith, Society, Help, World)
"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Diet, Heart)
"If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time."
- Bobby Flay
(Related: Food, Time, Business, Daughter, Decision, Being, Support)
"Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved."
- Bobby Flay
"Always think in terms of what the other person wants."
- James Van Fleet
"I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants."
- Gennifer Flowers
(Related: Needs, Woman)
"You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed."
- Larry Flynt
(Related: Wife, Goal, Vision, Doubt, Job, Kids, Security, Succeed, Temptations, Will)
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
- B. C. Forbes
(Related: Autumn, Harvest, Plants, Spring)
"As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence."
- Edward Forbes
(Related: Life)
"Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter."
- Gerald R. Ford
"I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading."
- John M. Ford
(Related: Giving, Reading)
"Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream."
- George Foreman
(Related: Dream, Confidence)
"Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Love, Youth)
"The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Husband, Influence, Vote, Woman)
"The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded."
- Frederick Forsyth
(Related: Man, Midnight, Past)
"We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Fact, First, Observation, Plants)
"So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Growth, Plants, Will, Wishes)
"Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Growth, Plants, states, Trees)
"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Gardens, Houses, Plants)
"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Importance, Plants, Trees)
"My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Father, Being, Plants, Trees)
"I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Animals, Plants, Talking)
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
- Anatole France
(Related: Life, Man, Will)
"War is not a thing one wants."
- Hans Frank
(Related: War)
"Our necessities never equal our wants."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: God, Obedience, Rebellion)
"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Being, Man, May, Result)
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Money, Nature, Happiness, Man, Nothing, Will)
"A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it."
- Don Fraser
(Related: Home, Possibility, May, Right)
"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy."
- Morgan Freeman
(Related: Movies, Time, Work, Fact, Saying)
"I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy."
- Morgan Freeman
(Related: Work)
"Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be."
- Anna Freud
"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Civilization, Existence)
"Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support."
- Anna Friel
(Related: Learning, Now, Support)
"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."
- Lynette Fromme
(Related: Houses)
"Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status."
- Northrop Frye
(Related: Money, Americans, Country)
"Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?"
- Edward Furlong
(Related: School)
"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art."
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
(Related: Art, Work, Motives)
"I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: People, Famous, Play, Will)
"I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written."
- Neil Gaiman
"Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Legal, College, School, states, University)
"We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Laws, Nation)
"In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Health)
"Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: People, Cards, Fact, states, United)
"The big tyrants never face justice."
- George Galloway
(Related: Justice)
"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Religion, Life, Belief, Ants, Bees, Future, Service)
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Happiness, Contentment, Lies, Living, Man, Pursuit, Thinking)
"All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted."
- Jeff Gannon
(Related: Purpose, Press)
"Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance."
- Marguerite Gardiner
(Related: Appearance, Manners, Remarkable)
"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."
- John W. Gardner
(Related: Education, People, Flowers, Giving, Plants, Teaching, Today)
"Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it."
- James Garner
(Related: Movies, People, Now, Relationships, Want)
"We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves."
- Kevin Garnett
(Related: Coaches, Order, Responsibility, Weight)
"I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants."
- Jesse James Garrett
(Related: Projects)
"If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own."
- Jesse James Garrett
(Related: Experience, Strategy, Day, Direction, Perspective)
"There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were."
- Leif Garrett
(Related: People, Accident, Drugs)
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Men, Arguments, Reason, Waste, Will)
"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: Genius, Inspiration, Magic)
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
(Related: Knowledge, Act, Enjoyment, Learning, Possession)
"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."
- Willard Gaylin
(Related: Behavior, Man, Unconscious)
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
- Clifford Geertz
(Related: Information, Language, Writer, Writing)
"You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well."
- Bob Geldof
(Related: Trust, Lies, Politicians, Speech)
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
- Jean Genet
(Related: American, Country, Deep, Hatred, Man, Plants, Wonder)
"Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom."
- George III
(Related: End, Evil, Knavery, May, Will)
"The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in."
- Steven Gerrard
(Related: Competition)
"If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script."
- Mel Gibson
(Related: Wrong)
"I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles."
- Sara Gilbert
(Related: Music, Restaurants, Theatre)
"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."
- Walter Gilbert
(Related: Knowledge)
"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
- Jerry Gillies
(Related: Want)
"Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
(Related: Reason)
"When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place."
- Christopher Gist
(Related: Family, Wife, People, Man, Old, Winter)
"Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?"
- Carter Glass
(Related: People, American, Banks, Country, Reason)
"Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about."
- William Glasser
(Related: Being, Conversation, Profession, Students, Talk, Teachers)
"If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them."
- Dan Glickman
(Related: Business, Economy, Rights, Pretty, Property, Respect, World)
"A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests."
- Alma Gluck
(Related: Advice, Poor, Saying, Will, Worth)
"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Destiny, Order, Wishes)
"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Men, Purpose)
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Work)
"The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled."
- Arthur J. Goldberg
(Related: Constitution, Now, Reason)
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
- Oliver Goldsmith
(Related: Friendship, Love, Commerce)
"All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little."
- Oliver Goldsmith
(Related: Wife, Husband)
"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."
- Oliver Goldsmith
(Related: Man)
"The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage."
- Al Goldstein
(Related: Marriage, Work, Man, Thinking, Woman)
"I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail."
- Selena Gomez
(Related: Time, People, Dress, Hair)
"I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!"
- Selena Gomez
(Related: Opportunity, Day, End)
"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."
- Samuel Gompers
(Related: Day, Devil, Man, Poor, Voice, Want, Will)
"There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act."
- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
(Related: People, Act, Actor, Want)
"To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!"
- Herman Gorter
(Related: Europe, Poor, Public)
"The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia."
- Herman Gorter
(Related: Europe, Revolution, Help, Mind, Poor, Russia, Workers, World)
"The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants."
- Herman Gorter
(Related: Time, Development, Victory, Revolution, Now, Russia, Years)
"And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails."
- Herman Gorter
(Related: Belgium, Countries, France, Poor)
"For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side."
- Herman Gorter
(Related: War, Eyes)
"Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help."
- Herman Gorter
(Related: Class, Europe, Help, Poor, Russia)
"As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food."
- Herman Gorter
(Related: Food, Land, Poor)
"I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked."
- Gilbert Gottfried
"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Dreams, Will)
"God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies."
- Billy Graham
(Related: God, Angels, Enemies, Potential)
"A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI."
- Bob Graham
(Related: Leadership, Public)
"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."
- Lindsey Graham
(Related: Baby)
"I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Now)
"I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Nerves, Years)
"The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: Purpose, Environment, Help, Investment, Jobs, Plants)
"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."
- Cary Grant
(Related: Want)
"Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can."
- Joe Grant
(Related: Business, Battle, Giants, Right)
"Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?"
- Asa Gray
(Related: Family, Plants)
"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Animals, Being, Plants, Years)
"It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Animals, Plants)
"The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Animals, Difficulty, Now, Opinion, Plants)
"Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: Power, Automobiles, Oil, Plants)
"Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants."
- Andrew Greeley
"Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed."
- Al Green
(Related: Success, Responsibility, Succeed, Teaching)
"Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice."
- Eva Green
(Related: Work, America, Choice)
"Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them."
- Julien Green
(Related: Life)
"Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments."
- Harold H. Greene
(Related: Being, Circumstances, Effect)
"Good leaders must first become good servants."
- Robert Greenleaf
(Related: First, Leaders)
"We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum."
- Philip Greenspun
(Related: Science, Hope, Computer, Curriculum, Job, School)
"One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so."
- Christine Gregoire
(Related: Education, Quality, Tools)
"Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description."
- George Grey
(Related: Animals, Plants)
"If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation."
- Raul Grijalva
(Related: Policy, Debate, Nation, Problems, Security)
"No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better."
- Raul Grijalva
(Related: Body, Force, Iraq, Terrorism)
"I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course."
- Red Grooms
"And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock."
- Robert Grosseteste
(Related: Money, Kitchen, Pleas, Wages)
"I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see."
- Paul Guilfoyle
"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."
- Alma Guillermoprieto
(Related: Food, Love, Cooking, Fun, Restaurants)
"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."
- Alma Guillermoprieto
(Related: Work, Gardens, Pretty, Restaurants, Shops, states, United, Will)
"I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published."
- James Gunn
(Related: Being, Merit, Names, Right)
"Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Being, First, Tax, Income, Property, Sales, Taxes)
"Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Work, Truth, Jobs, Today)
"Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Hope, Labor, Nation)
"As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Tax, Income, State, Taxes)
"Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: History, People, Fear, Ignorance, Nation, Old, Uncertainty)
"It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Fear, America, Americans, Meaning)
"I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group."
- Gary Gygax
(Related: Play)
"Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die."
- David Hackworth
(Related: Enemy)
"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
- Mark Haddon
(Related: Mind, Want)
"It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Home, Life, Time, Wife, Pretty, Quick)
"If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker."
- Jessica Hahn
"Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them."
- George Halas
"If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens."
- Daryl Hall
(Related: Funny)
"Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum."
- Geri Halliwell
(Related: Mothers)
"Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art."
- Lawrence Halprin
(Related: Art, Work, Talent, Feeling, Now)
"Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots."
- Johann G. Hamann
(Related: Nature, Nothing, Physics, Reason, Word)
"When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants."
- Jupiter Hammon
(Related: War, Thought, People)
"Good servants frequently make good masters."
- Jupiter Hammon
"There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them."
- Tom Hanks
(Related: Time, People, Animals, Land, Plants)
"No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Kids, Oil)
"A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music."
- Taylor Hanson
(Related: Music, People, Hiring)
"When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor."
- Cedric Hardwicke
(Related: Actor, Actors, Talking)
"To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Home, Paradise)
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Life, Babies, Conceit, Importance, Intellect, Mothers)
"I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'"
- Mariska Hargitay
(Related: Actor, Day, Fantasy, Living, Thinking)
"Compost makes houseplants very happy."
- Shalom Harlow
"What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Government, Time, Support)
"The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use."
- W. Averell Harriman
(Related: War, Thought, Effort, Plants, Washington)
"Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty."
- Paul Harris
(Related: Ancestry, Deed, EnglFact, Liberty, Religious, states, United)
"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process."
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: Man, Pity, Will, Woman)
"A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone."
- Jane Harrison
(Related: Work, Artist, Creation, Fight, Reality, Will)
"If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine."
- John Harrison
(Related: Plants, Will)
"Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves."
- Albert Bushnell Hart
(Related: Class, Wages, Years)
"Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored."
- Gary Hart
(Related: Care)
"One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming."
- Haldan Keffer Hartline
(Related: Students)
"They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms."
- Larry Harvey
(Related: Experience, Religion, Mystery)
"With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays."
- Ernie Harwell
(Related: Giants)
"In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie."
- David Hasselhoff
"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
- Paul Hawken
(Related: Art, Work, Management, Problems)
"He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants."
- Friedrich August von Hayek
(Related: Knowledge, Growth, Environment, Plants, Results, Will)
"I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: Men, Love)
"And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: Peace, Israel, Land, Want)
"Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: Legal, Laws, Nation, National security)
"All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved."
- Rita Hayworth
"My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?"
- Mitch Hedberg
"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Plants, Water)
"Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist."
- Levon Helm
(Related: End, Song)
"I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel."
- Levon Helm
(Related: Travel, Policy, Country, Eating, Restaurants, Road)
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
- Claud-Adrian Helvetius
(Related: Books, Fools, Insult, Nation, Press, Reading)
"I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants."
- Florence Henderson
(Related: Love, Flying, Television)
"That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences."
- Joe Henderson
"I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants."
- Martin Henderson
(Related: Work, Thought, Job, Now, Trying, University, Want)
"I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment."
- Jill Hennessy
(Related: Life, Journey, Living, Man, Mind, Open)
"East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State."
- O. Henry
(Related: People, Race, State)
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
- Charles Hermite
(Related: Mathematics)
"But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great."
- Andy Hertzfeld
(Related: Leadership, Excellence, Passion, Spirit)
"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
(Related: Love, People, Affection, Being, Care, Children, Culture, Dictators, Gold)
"Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does."
- John Hickenlooper
(Related: Government, Time, People, Restaurants)
"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: Race)
"Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe."
- Benny Hill
"I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive."
- Damon Hill
(Related: People, End, Fact, Objectives)
"Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games."
- Faith Hill
(Related: Children, Football, Games, Pretty)
"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."
- Ken Hill
(Related: Food, Body)
"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Quality, Knowledge, Purpose, Desire)
"I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading."
- Tony Hillerman
(Related: Old, Reading, Will, Writing, Years)
"We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security."
- James Hillman
(Related: Society, Security, Want)
"The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?"
- James Hillman
(Related: Car, Home, Being, Children, Culture, Depression, Will, World)
"Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done."
- Sidney Hillman
(Related: Work, Labor)
"Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have."
- Maurice Hinchey
(Related: Education, Country, Want)
"Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous."
- Benny Hinn
(Related: God, Devil, Poverty)
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Motivation, Character, Actor)
"Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: Technology, Defense, Order)
"As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports."
- Eric Hobsbawm
(Related: People, Restaurants, Xenophobia)
"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow."
- David Hobson
(Related: Soul, Challenge, Eye, Joy, Nostalgia, Novelty, Patience, Plants)
"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Love, America, Americans, Hate, Native Americans, Needs)
"Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Pride, Self)
"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Men, Nature, Angels, Human nature)
"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Related: Actor, Being, Restaurants)
"How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky."
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
(Related: Freedom, Humanity, Poor, Sky)
"It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Positive)
"They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: People, May, Office, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, World)
"We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that."
- Geoffrey Holder
(Related: Fight, Profession, Quick, Spirit)
"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Beach, Order, Restaurants, Summer)
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."
- Winifred Holtby
(Related: Worth)
"So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them."
- Thomas Hooker
(Related: Truth, May, Shadows, Sorrow)
"What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'"
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Confidence, Right, Saying, Speech, Therapy, Voice)
"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."
- Horace
(Related: Life, Work, Hard work, Nothing)
"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
- Horace
(Related: Fortune, Gain, Tomorrow)
"There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you."
- David Horowitz
(Related: Peace)
"But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath."
- Harry Houdini
(Related: Honor, Secrecy)
"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."
- Harry Houdini
(Related: Thought, Integrity, Public, Years)
"I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants."
- Whitney Houston
(Related: Men, Being, Man, Woman, World)
"Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?"
- Joseph Howe
(Related: Men, Blood, Care, Language, Principles, Will)
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
- William Dean Howells
(Related: American, Ending, Public, Theater, Tragedy)
"He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want."
- Thomas Hughes
(Related: Nothing, Right, Want)
"Everybody wants to be great at something."
- D. L. Hughley
"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Nature, Knowledge, Majority, Occupations, World)
"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Fact, Plants, Variety)
"The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Truth, America, American, Identity, Nation, Worth)
"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Society, Country, Culture, Europe, Generations, Repression)
"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Society, People, Country)
"First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: First)
"Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: America, Nation)
"I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: Love, American, Country, Difference, Help, Opinion, President, Question, Respect, Will)
"Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time."
- Douglas Hurd
(Related: Men, Time, Values, Actions)
"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Related: People, Plants, Trees)
"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace."
- King Hussein I
(Related: Life, Peace, Work, Fear, Children, Dawn, Living, Want)
"Every actor I know wants to be a pop star."
- Michael Hutchence
(Related: Actor)
"Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that."
- Michael Hutchence
(Related: Fame)
"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Race)
"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Work, Nature, Man)
"God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven."
- Bill Hybels
(Related: Power, Father, God, Approval, Heaven, Promise)
"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Manager, Waiting)
"If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it."
- Scott Ian
(Related: Opportunity, Reason)
"A forest bird never wants a cage."
- Henrik Ibsen
"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go."
- Robert Iger
(Related: Interest, Old, Rules)
"We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants."
- Bob Inglis
(Related: Laws, Nation)
"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."
- Muhammad Iqbal
(Related: Plants)
"Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about."
- Steve Israel
(Related: People, Living, Nothing, Shadows)
"Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Laws, Nation)
"My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Father, Son, Strength, Ability, America, Diversity, English, Principles)
"Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Society, American, Benefits, English, Printing)
"It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism."
- Joichi Ito
(Related: Rights, Human rights, Law, Terrorism)
"They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'"
- Eddie Izzard
"Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition."
- Andrew Jack
(Related: Art, Work, Wealth, Competition)
"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."
- Bruce Jackson
(Related: Events, Media, Public)
"Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it."
- Michael Jackson
(Related: Love, Children, Kids)
"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."
- Bianca Jagger
(Related: Marriage, Forget, Media)
"Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants."
- Kevin James
(Related: Day, Man, Thanksgiving)
"So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones."
- Fredric Jameson
(Related: Being, Globalization)
"Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another."
- Yahya Jammeh
(Related: Peace, Discipline, Freedom, Tolerance, Will)
"The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic."
- Bill Janklow
(Related: Rest, World)
"I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Time, God, Living)
"I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch."
- Wyclef Jean
(Related: Woman)
"We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired."
- Joseph Jefferson
(Related: Will)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Time, Blood, Liberty)
"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Country, Majority, May, Nation, Right, Will)
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Country)
"I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
(Related: Legal, Women, Rights, Land)
"The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country."
- William L. Jenkins
(Related: Policy, Country, Diversity)
"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective."
- Peter Jennings
"Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Police, Rules)
"The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Countries, English, France)
"Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody."
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(Related: Power, People, Islam, Will)
"LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks."
- Scarlett Johansson
(Related: Love, People, Care, Giving, Lonely, Talk)
"Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways."
- Lara St. John
(Related: American, Cards, Fact)
"Every President wants to do right."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: President, Right)
"If the American people don't love me, their descendants will."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Love, People, American, Will)
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Life, Desire, Fancy)
"We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'"
- Tim Johnson
(Related: Health, Idea, Care, Country, Privilege, Right, World)
"I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Love, Taste)
"Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note."
- Jeffrey Jones
(Related: Character, Actor)
"The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back."
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones
(Related: Development, Decision, Cities, Community)
"We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: People, Example, Nation, Public, Rest)
"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: America, Danger, Faces, Interest, Nation, Will)
"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace."
- Chief Joseph
(Related: Peace, Man)
"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Money, Goal, Thinking)
"I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants."
- William Joyce
(Related: People, Idea, Giants, Land, World)
"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: Artist, Day, End, Man)
"The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people."
- Walid Jumblatt
(Related: People, Iraq, Soldiers)
"There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance."
- Akhmad Kadyrov
(Related: Enemy)
"There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Truth, Lie, Lies)
"The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Leader, Artist, Being, Credit, Trouble)
"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."
- Louise J. Kaplan
(Related: Sympathy, Adolescence, Children, Compassion)
"In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women."
- Carl Karcher
(Related: Men, Women, Employees, Restaurants)
"With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes."
- Islom Karimov
(Related: Abundance, Aspirations, Beginning, Harvest, Spring)
"The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time."
- Hamid Karzai
(Related: Time, War, Fight, Terrorism, Will)
"The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy."
- Lawrence Kasdan
"It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants."
- Leon Kass
(Related: Belief)
"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem."
- Mathieu Kassovitz
(Related: Film, France, Months, Police, Training)
"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."
- Ric Keller
(Related: College, Help, Nation, Students)
"No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine."
- Thomas Keller
(Related: Funny, People, Restaurants)
"Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine."
- Thomas Keller
(Related: Food, People, Now, Restaurants, Wine)
"I think every young cook wants to write a book."
- Thomas Keller
"We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks."
- Kevin Kelly
(Related: Help, Managers, Mind)
"In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live."
- Fanny Kemble
(Related: Hope, Day)
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Destiny, Man, May, Problems)
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Divorce, Job)
"Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator."
- Bob Kerrey
(Related: Baseball, Needs)
"I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people."
- Vanessa Kerry
(Related: Dad, People, Fighting, Integrity, Man)
"Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Fascism)
"The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants."
- Jack Kevorkian
(Related: Medical, Decision, Advice)
"They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with."
- Nicole Kidman
(Related: Force, Gay)
"It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up."
- Jimmy Kimmel
(Related: Funny, Now, Popular, Pretty, School, states, United, Want)
"The industry now wants to be in charge of everything."
- Ben E. King
(Related: Now)
"If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that."
- Billie Jean King
(Related: Respect)
"My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!"
- Jonathan King
(Related: Being, Careers, Reward)
"Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer."
- Larry King
(Related: America, Jobs, Summer, Today)
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."
- Stephen King
(Related: Favorite, Laughter)
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Defeat, Questions, Sense)
"I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: People, Animals, Plants)
"They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on."
- Michael Kinsley
(Related: Development, Restaurants, Shops)
"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
(Related: Peace, War, Conflict)
"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
- Gustav Klimt
(Related: Artist, Want)
"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."
- Aaron Klug
(Related: Computer)
"I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much."
- Evel Knievel
(Related: Hurt)
"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"
- Shirley Knight
(Related: Thought, Vanity)
"If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them."
- Howard Koch
(Related: Peace, Nation, Neighbors)
"The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox."
- Rem Koolhaas
(Related: Names, Worth)
"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."
- Alexis Korner
(Related: People, Pain)
"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."
- Lajos Kossuth
(Related: Government, Circumstances, Countries, England, May, Motive, Opinion, Queen, Wishes)
"You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place."
- Leo Kottke
(Related: Attention, Will)
"My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager."
- Anna Kournikova
(Related: Manager, Dress, Want)
"Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match."
- Vladimir Kramnik
(Related: Now, Years)
"The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker."
- John Krasinski
(Related: Work)
"The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed."
- Lee Krasner
(Related: Artist)
"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Ideals)
"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Public)
"I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care."
- Peter Krause
(Related: Care)
"Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation."
- Joe Krauss
(Related: Control, Congress, Hollywood, Innovation, Media)
"The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: American, Being, Gentleman)
"So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think."
- David Krumholtz
(Related: People, Country, Dumb)
"The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens."
- David Krumholtz
(Related: Truth, America, Blush, Daughters, Hair, Now, Play, Talk, Want, Weight, Woman)
"I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me."
- Gustav Krupp
(Related: People, Plants, Production)
"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: War, Man)
"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."
- Mike Krzyzewski
(Related: Responsibility)
"And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops."
- Hans Kung
(Related: God, People, Church, Community, Understanding)
"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him."
- William Kunstler
(Related: Liberal)
"So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs."
- Patti LaBelle
(Related: Party, Want)
"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."
- Steve Lacy
(Related: Experts, Jazz, Wine)
"I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy."
- Emeril Lagasse
(Related: Food, Day, Now, Philosophy, Service, Wine)
"You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?"
- Emeril Lagasse
(Related: Change, Food, Restaurants, Years)
"When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants."
- Emeril Lagasse
(Related: Fun, Restaurants)
"The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years."
- Emeril Lagasse
(Related: Employees, Restaurants, World, Years)
"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Happiness, People, Dream, Opportunity, Children, Giving)
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: People, Affection)
"To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain."
- Louis L'Amour
(Related: Work, Democracy, Right, Vote)
"No man should have a political office because he wants a job."
- Franklin Knight Lane
(Related: Job, Man, Office)
"But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there."
- Judge Mills Lane
(Related: Society, Direction, Help, Judges, Obligation, Right)
"Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do."
- Artie Lange
"When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work."
- Jessica Lange
(Related: Home, Work, Want)
"I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants."
- James Larkin
"The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love."
- Dino De Laurentiis
(Related: Love, Drama, Emotion, Suspense)
"Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget."
- Arthur Laurents
(Related: Forget)
"You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all."
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Related: Art, Man, May)
"I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things."
- Jude Law
(Related: Actor, Celebrity, Interest)
"My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society."
- Jude Law
(Related: Society, Goal, Actor, Appearance)
"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: God, Life, Man, Woman)
"He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be."
- Mark Lawrenson
"The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life."
- John Lawson
(Related: Life, Richness)
"The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders."
- John Lawson
"I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour."
- Nigella Lawson
(Related: First, Restaurants, Taste, Wine)
"The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants."
- Kenneth Lay
(Related: Power, Plants, Problems)
"My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied."
- Irving Layton
(Related: Want)
"No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well."
- William P. Leahy
(Related: Day, Errors, Light, Physicians, Police, Wrong)
"Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya."
- Louis Leakey
(Related: People, Criticism, Popular, Service)
"The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done."
- Louis Leakey
"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: People, Now)
"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: Being)
"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: Life, Circumstances, First, Water)
"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: Insects, Plants)
"Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: Age, People, Memory, Years)
"Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: Now)
"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
- Norman Lear
(Related: News)
"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Desire, Freedom, Interest, Public, Restaurants, Speech)
"To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Land)
"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Buying)
"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Trust, Heart, Blood)
"The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well."
- Michael Ledeen
(Related: Iraq)
"My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts."
- Chris LeDoux
(Related: End, Race)
"We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be."
- Amy Lee
(Related: Media, Religious)
"I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons."
- Tanith Lee
(Related: Men, Women, Writing)
"Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity."
- Mike Leigh
(Related: Compromise, Danger, Film, Hollywood, Integrity, Principles, Will)
"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Sea, Shakespeare, Words)
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
- Madeleine L'Engle
(Related: Children, Will)
"The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you."
- John Lennon
"Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons."
- Sugar Ray Leonard
(Related: Health, Will)
"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
- Doris Lessing
(Related: Work, People, World)
"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."
- Jonathan Lethem
(Related: Career, Writer)
"A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag."
- David Letterman
(Related: Time, Example, France, Iraq, Paris, Right, Thinking)
"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"
- Sam Levenson
(Related: Father, Now, Want)
"The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror."
- Sonya Levien
(Related: Horror, Instinct, Man, Pleasure, Ugly)
"Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on."
- Joe E. Lewis
(Related: Feet, Man)
"Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
"It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find."
- Gerald F. Lieberman
(Related: Politicians)
"If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!"
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Daughter, Day)
"Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Want)
"None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Country, Rest, World)
"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."
- Abbey Lincoln
(Related: Saying, Trying, Want)
"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: People, Decisions)
"It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents."
- John Linder
(Related: Legal, Fact)
"I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia."
- John Linder
(Related: Guest)
"The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders."
- John Linder
(Related: Congress, Country, Security)
"The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Home, America, Animals, Plants, Variety, Wilderness)
"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: People, Court, Fool, Whisper)
"The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants."
- Franz Liszt
"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."
- Seth Lloyd
(Related: Society, Science, England, Information, Pretty, Today)
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
- John Locke
(Related: Body, Mind, Sound, State, Will)
"Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Life, Animals, May, Plants, Word, World)
"My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward."
- Kenny Loggins
(Related: Love, Power, Trust, Life)
"There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens."
- Kenny Loggins
(Related: Love, Trust, Life, Power, Being, Spirit)
"My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her."
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: Mother, Sister, Opinions, Trouble, Want)
"My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!"
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: Brother, Entertainment, Help, Want)
"We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness."
- Bernard Loiseau
(Related: Happiness, Dreams, Selling)
"I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me."
- Jay London
(Related: Identity, Theft, Worry)
"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort."
- Adolf Loos
(Related: Art, Work, People, Being, Comfort, State, World)
"Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art."
- Adolf Loos
(Related: Art, Comfort, Man)
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
- Joe Louis
(Related: Heaven)
"I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best."
- Courtney Love
(Related: Want)
"It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?"
- Lyle Lovett
"Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle."
- Francis Cabot Lowell
(Related: History, Flowers, Garden, Plants, Will)
"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Intelligence)
"So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul."
- Ignatius Loyola
(Related: Love, Soul, Simplicity, Will)
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
- Max Lucado
(Related: Man)
"People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: People, Ants)
"There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Pressure)
"Who wants to be married to a grandfather?"
- Loretta Lynn
"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
- George MacDonald
(Related: Work, Quality, God, Exhaustion, Quantity)
"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."
- George MacDonald
(Related: God, Man, Want, Will)
"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: Act, Fact, Grief, Man)
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
- Mary MacLane
(Related: Literature, World)
"To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?"
- Virginia Madsen
(Related: Life)
"Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself."
- Sydney Madwed
(Related: Life, Blame, Man)
"Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Experience, Day, Gifts, Nation, Spiritual, State)
"Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: History, Country, Nation)
"The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Death, Church, Abuse, Exploitation)
"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Children)
"It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: America, Blame, Nation, State)
"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
- Norman Mailer
(Related: People, America, Eye, Sound, Wind)
"We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro."
- Jeff Malone
(Related: People, Passion)
"Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Love, Time, History, Truth, Despair, End)
"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."
- Maxwell Maltz
(Related: Feelings, Needs, Trouble)
"Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class."
- Ernest Mandel
(Related: Class, Contradiction, Participation)
"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."
- Bernard de Mandeville
(Related: Women, People, Opportunity, Being, Consequences, May, Pleasure, Sin)
"In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work."
- Nong Duc Manh
(Related: Work, Fact)
"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Insanity, State, Writing)
"I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Life, Lies, Now, Play)
"When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him."
- Marla Maples
(Related: Man, Nothing)
"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."
- Robert Mapplethorpe
(Related: Father, Brother)
"People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?"
- Imelda Marcos
(Related: Beauty, People, Want)
"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life."
- Teena Marie
(Related: Life, Daughter, God, Day, Excitement, Gifts)
"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Family, Blood, Will)
"People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about."
- Steve Marriott
(Related: People, Idea, Feet)
"The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem."
- Mike Marsh
(Related: Past, Plants, Running, Years)
"It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character."
- Alfred Marshall
(Related: Character, Class, First)
"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."
- Alfred Marshall
(Related: Purpose, Absence, May)
"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
- Alfred Marshall
(Related: Wealth)
"Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels."
- Archer J. P. Martin
(Related: Work, Machine)
"Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so."
- Paul Martin
(Related: Opportunity)
"The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!"
- Ricky Martin
(Related: Life, Community, Gay, Living, Talk, Writer)
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Marriage)
"But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever."
- Richard Marx
(Related: Business, Success, Style)
"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."
- Marlee Matlin
(Related: Hearing, Today)
"Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore."
- Yukihiro Matsumoto
(Related: Language, Theory)
"The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here."
- Don Mattingly
(Related: Love, Money, Play, Respect)
"Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude."
- Bill Mauldin
(Related: Attitude, Living, Soldiers)
"I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains."
- Bill Mauldin
(Related: Time, People, Army, Cartoons, Man, Mountains)
"In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals."
- James C. Maxwell
(Related: Men, Science, Occupation, Will, Years)
"Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Virtue, Obedience, Public)
"So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position."
- Thom Mayne
(Related: Art, Time, Attitude, Media, Public)
"In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing."
- Willie Mays
(Related: Car, Community, Giants, Mercury)
"I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood."
- Debi Mazar
(Related: Time, Americans, Fun, Hollywood, Italy, World)
"Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important."
- James McAvoy
(Related: People, Actors, Public)
"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."
- Carolyn McCarthy
(Related: Selling, Children, Common sense, Country, Questions)
"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: People, American, Man)
"I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them."
- Barbara McClintock
(Related: Plants, Pleasure)
"If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction."
- Mitch McConnell
(Related: Cooperation, Direction, Will)
"The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress."
- Mitch McConnell
(Related: Congress, Result)
"I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!"
- John C. McGinley
(Related: Love, Memory)
"The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants."
- John McGraw
"No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness."
- John McGraw
(Related: Greatness)
"When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story."
- Aaron McGruder
(Related: Music, News)
"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
- Claude McKay
(Related: Development, Nations, Plants)
"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."
- Ian McKellen
(Related: Management, Performance, Audiences, Judgment, Right, Theatre, Waiting, World)
"Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced."
- Terence McKenna
(Related: Animals, Plants, Solution)
"What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!"
- Mark McKinney
"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved."
- Mignon McLaughlin
"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Public, Want)
"TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Work, Film, Hard work, Hell, Play, Want, Years)
"You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?""
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Being, Fun)
"There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man."
- Herman Melville
(Related: Deep, Help, Man, Want, Wrong)
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Fear, Emotion, Inexplicable, Man, Safety)
"The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted."
- Gregor Mendel
(Related: Fitness, Purpose, Plants, Value)
"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."
- Gian Carlo Menotti
(Related: God, Vision, Day, Gifts, Hell)
"Who wants to live forever?"
- Freddie Mercury
"It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Control, Plants)
"If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics."
- Charles E. Merrill
(Related: Politics, Work, Labor)
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
- Thomas Merton
(Related: Life, Soul, Earth, Man, Plants)
"Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season."
- Al Michaels
(Related: Contention, December, Will)
"There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church."
- Arthur Middleton
(Related: Church, Doctrine, Thinking, Worship)
"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."
- Bette Midler
(Related: Conformity, Cruelty, Want)
"I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired."
- John Milius
"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Related: Help, Hurt, Nothing)
"He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."
- Arthur Miller
(Related: Son, Want, World)
"The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: states, United)
"California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States."
- Gary Miller
(Related: states, United)
"An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Population, states, United)
"Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Criticism, Fire, Passion)
"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants."
- Jeff Miller
(Related: Management, Fact, Plants, Treatment)
"Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm."
- Merton Miller
(Related: Value)
"John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security."
- Zell Miller
(Related: National security)
"Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants."
- Robert Millikan
(Related: Civilization)
"The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants."
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
(Related: Men, Plants)
"Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Peace, Influence, Nations, State)
"My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area."
- George J. Mitchell
(Related: Mother, Father, Son, Boston, Ireland, Parents, states, United)
"As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people."
- Steve Mitchell
(Related: People, African, Mistrust, Racism)
"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else."
- Issey Miyake
(Related: Machine, Old)
"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Disease, Effect)
"She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!"
- Maria Monk
(Related: Feelings, Information)
"Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants."
- Elizabeth Montagu
(Related: Women, Consequences, Wit, Wounds)
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Company, Reason)
"Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Future, Self)
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
- Maria Montessori
(Related: Work, Help, Teachers)
"The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants."
- Helen Wills Moody
(Related: Being, Rest)
"In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government."
- John Moody
(Related: Government, War, Land)
"Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution."
- John Moody
(Related: Difficulties, Now, Public, Solution, Traveling)
"Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years."
- Sun Myung Moon
(Related: President, Will, Years)
"I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road."
- Archie Moore
(Related: Road)
"Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about."
- Thomas Moore
(Related: Day, Plants, Sleep)
"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: History, Time, Future)
"The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer."
- Christian Morgenstern
(Related: Art, Being)
"In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not."
- Samuel E. Morison
(Related: Design, History, Values, Acting, Gold, Judgment)
"You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it."
- Nils-Axel Morner
(Related: Science, People, Honesty, Climate, Research, Scientists)
"My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Government, Focus, Job, Needs, Public)
"Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect."
- Richard Morris
(Related: Music, Talent, Self, Today, Will)
"And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem."
- Richard Morris
(Related: Talk)
"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: People, Divorce, Names, Want)
"The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Nature, Babies, Body, Income)
"With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting."
- David Morse
(Related: Acting, Danger, Want)
"All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting."
- John Mortimer
(Related: Children, Congress)
"He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family."
- Andrew Morton
(Related: Family)
"It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it."
- Jerry Moss
(Related: People)
"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."
- Bill Moyers
(Related: Dream, Freedom, Secrecy)
"So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants."
- Robert Mueller
(Related: Intelligence, Purpose)
"Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes."
- Dennis Muren
(Related: People, Will)
"And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world."
- Dennis Muren
(Related: Movies, Work, Being, Public, World)
"There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Government, Drugs, Needs, Pressure)
"Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Will)
"A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Help)
"Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Drugs, Job)
"Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community."
- Said Musa
(Related: People, Aspirations, Community, Support)
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: History, People, Battle)
"It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'"
- Ellen Muth
(Related: Father, Thought, Rejection, Ruin, Self, Want)
"I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too."
- Mike Myers
(Related: Family, Reality, World)
"John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Car, Media, Name, Oil)
"Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that."
- Parminder Nagra
(Related: Dream, Heart, Deep, Football, Obstacles, Passion)
"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."
- Ajay Naidu
(Related: America, Mind)
"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going."
- Joe Namath
(Related: Leader, People, Want)