Quotes and Sayings about Gain
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Government, Country)
"I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Cause, Enemy, Words)
"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Boss, Defeat, Defense, Nothing, Osama bin laden, Planning, states, United)
"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."
- Karl Abraham
(Related: Work)
"There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Decision, Circumstances, First, Interest)
"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Government, Thought, Court, Respect)
"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Fight, Will)
"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."
- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
(Related: Poor)
"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Gain, Weight)
"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Democracy, Years)
"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: People, Purpose, Journey, Leaders, World)
"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Office, Public, Will)
"There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Now, Right)
"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."
- John Acton
(Related: Mother, Being, Constitution, Country, Democracy, English, Revolution, Opposition, Result, states, Traditions, United)
"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
- John Acton
(Related: Authority, Custom, Duty, Influence, Liberty, Man, Opinion)
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: People, Old, Walking, Windows, Years)
"I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again."
- Don Adams
(Related: Time, Wife, Church)
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Men, Women, People, Elections, Vote)
"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Feeling, Proof, Winter)
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Constitution, Country, Duty, Freedom, Worth)
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Fortune, Humility, Youth)
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Criticism, Defense, Obscurity)
"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Truth, Breeding, Gain, Praise, Sense)
"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: War, Brothers, Murder)
"An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Life, Desire, Gain, Possession, World)
"Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Now, Old, Will, Years)
"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Gods, Man, Misfortune)
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Wisdom, God, Heart, Despair, Forget, Grace, Pain, Sleep, Will)
"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Gain, Trouble, Will, Worth)
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
- Aesop
(Related: Force, Wind)
"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Gain)
"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: Buying, Credit)
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: Change, People, America, Credit, Now, states, United)
"The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Islam, World)
"New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Life, Cancer, Drugs, Fight, Medicine, Promise, Research)
"A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Disease, Security)
"When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Leading, Old)
"You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Accidents, Result, Students, Teaching, Years)
"As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Time, Language, Rules, Will)
"If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow."
- Mitch Albom
"Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
- Madeleine Albright
(Related: Iraq, Leaders, Security, State, Weapons, Will)
"We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism."
- Madeleine Albright
(Related: People, Democracy, Disease, Fight, Freedom, Poverty, Terrorism, Will, World)
"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."
- Alcaeus
(Related: Drinking, Folly, Grief, Melancholy, Pain, Sense, Thinking)
"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Dreams, Senses)
"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Students)
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Eyes, Influence, Self, Spirit, Will)
"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Beauty, Will)
"The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Anger, Being, Weapons)
"The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Government, Character, Fascism, Fight, Force, Popular, Republican, Spain)
"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Work)
"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience."
- Sasha Alexander
(Related: Experience, Life, People, Hollywood, Nothing, Now, World)
"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Purpose, Authority, Children)
"We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture."
- Hannes Alfven
(Related: Science)
"Will cannot be quenched against its will."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Will)
"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."
- Saul Alinsky
(Related: Life, Politics, Time, Mother, Father, Bed, Corruption, Play)
"Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech."
- Samuel Alito
(Related: Religious, Speech)
"It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies."
- David Allan
(Related: Truth, Gain, Hurt, Lies, Satisfaction)
"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Abuse, America, Children, Country, Fight, October, Violence)
"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"
- Debbie Allen
(Related: Actors)
"Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason."
- Ethan Allen
(Related: Reason)
"I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games."
- Marcus Allen
(Related: Games)
"At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones."
- Marcus Allen
(Related: People, Gain, Running)
"I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Want)
"Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show."
- Rick Allen
(Related: People, Practice, Repetition, Thinking)
"I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol... But we need the tax money."
- Walter Allen
(Related: Money, Christian, Church, Alcohol, Duty, Tax)
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Now)
"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Love, People, Responsibility, Right, Students, Will)
"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress."
- Chris Van Allsburg
(Related: Being, Horses, School)
"I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates."
- Marc Almond
(Related: Will)
"I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process."
- Herb Alpert
"That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization."
- John Amery
(Related: Civilization, Being, Crime)
"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Difficulties)
"By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Control, Europe, Gain, Now)
"He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again."
- Kingsley Amis
"They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history."
- John Amos
(Related: History, Work, God, Character, Rest)
"In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Love, Trust, Kids, Lust, Man)
"Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Life, Pain)
"I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Life, Time, Lies, Want)
"Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Fact, Luxury)
"But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore."
- Harry Anderson
"I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will."
- Paul Thomas Anderson
(Related: Time, Will)
"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
- Carl Andre
(Related: Life, Time, Art, Work, Artist)
"Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed."
- Prince Andrew
(Related: Family, Funny, Friends, Queen, Question)
"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Marriage, Wedding, Wife, HusbHeart, Church, Act, Choice, Day)
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: History, Courage, Pain)
"Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: Government, People, Ability, Freedom, Liberty, Vote)
"It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Globalization, Gravity, Laws)
"What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?"
- Kojo Annan
(Related: Father, Rest, Senators, Will, World)
"I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer."
- Walter Annenberg
(Related: Will)
"And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again."
- Phil Anselmo
(Related: Today)
"There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick."
- Phil Anselmo
(Related: Quick)
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Power, Gain, Help, World)
"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
- David Antin
(Related: Children, Saying, Singing)
"I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred."
- David Antin
"I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin."
- Judd Apatow
"I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: People)
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: God, Sin)
"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Conscience, Evil, Right, Wrong)
"When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again."
- Avi Arad
(Related: Despair)
"No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes."
- Avi Arad
(Related: Life, Being, Books, Literature, Metaphors, Reading, Understanding)
"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Day, Jokes, Reason, Years)
"We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again."
- Tom Araya
(Related: Home, Wife, Months)
"I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will."
- Joan of Arc
(Related: God, Sin, Will)
"I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Life, Day, London, Nothing, Will, Writing)
"I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Writing)
"And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?"
- Archilochus
(Related: Life, Cunning, Grave)
"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Crime, Discovery, Guilt, Nothing)
"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Certainty, Laws)
"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Revolution, Reputation, Violence)
"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
- Aristotle
(Related: End, Gain, Labor, Leisure)
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
- Aristotle
(Related: Nature, Habit)
"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."
- Aristotle
(Related: Time, Man, Praise, Right)
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
- Aristotle
(Related: God, Religion, Gods, Appearance, Devotion, Treatment)
"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
- Aristotle
(Related: Fear, Being, Law)
"The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Movies, Kids, Rules)
"I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air."
- Roone Arledge
(Related: Respect)
"There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Ambition, Ego, Press)
"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
"The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along."
- Richard Armitage
(Related: Power, War, Finance, Intelligence, Diplomacy, Fight, Fighting, Law, Military, Terrorism, Today, Tools, Wage)
"If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Being, End, Hate, Questions, Saying)
"I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved."
- Dido Armstrong
(Related: Time, Being, End)
"It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger."
- Lance Armstrong
(Related: Golf, May)
"When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: Country)
"This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: God, Truth, Gifts, Pride, Spiritual)
"But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: Art, World)
"And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Future, Right, Rumors)
"Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Time, People, First)
"But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Day, End, Fate, Months)
"This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship."
- Eddy Arnold
(Related: Songs)
"Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Business, Job)
"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."
- Paddy Ashdown
(Related: Property)
"All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do."
- Matthew Ashford
(Related: People, Environment, Play, Writers)
"We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Work, Credit, Criticism)
"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Legal, Information, Mail, News, Public, Talking)
"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Work, May, Months)
"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Conscience, Man, Order)
"Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?"
- Mary Astell
(Related: Slavery)
"Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it."
- Chet Atkins
(Related: People)
"I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider."
- Robert Atkins
(Related: Idea, Appetite, Weight)
"We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about."
- John Atkinson
(Related: Home, People, Fighting, Nothing)
"Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!"
- Dave Attell
(Related: People, Choice, Driving, Kids)
"I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage."
- David Attenborough
"They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world."
- Francis Atterbury
(Related: God, World)
"Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me."
- Lee Atwater
(Related: Thought, People)
"They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped."
- Rene Auberjonois
"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Life, Family, Success, America, Names)
"I waged war against my feelings."
- John James Audubon
(Related: War, Feelings)
"After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Home, Peace, America, Comfort, Europe, Mind, World)
"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Money, People, Possibility, May)
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Forgiveness, Being)
"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Friend, Friends, Gain, Strangers, Will)
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Earth, Heaven)
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Future, Present, Reason, Today, Weapons, Will)
"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Work)
"Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle."
- Marcus Aurelius
"I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet."
- Sherman Austin
(Related: People, Action, Internet)
"It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
(Related: Love, Daughters, Gain, May, Sin, Will)
"But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20."
- David Axelrod
(Related: Age, People, Parents)
"I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Love, Play)
"The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction."
- Jose Maria Aznar
(Related: Alliance, Destruction, Terrorism, Weapons)
"I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute."
- Bruce Babbitt
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Chance, Conservation, Country, President)
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
- Irving Babbitt
(Related: Science, Theology, Today)
"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
- Irving Babbitt
(Related: Civilization, Nationalism, Unity)
"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism."
- Irving Babbitt
(Related: Democracy, Now)
"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Friends, Meeting, Moments)
"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."
- Gaston Bachelard
(Related: Childhood, Fire)
"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Fame, Fire, May, Will)
"I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Want)
"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Gain, Listening, Observation, Occupation, Talk, Will)
"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"
- John Badham
(Related: Gravity, Light, Space)
"The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves."
- Michael Badnarik
(Related: First, Victims)
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
- Enid Bagnold
(Related: Father, Baby, Woman)
"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring."
- Enid Bagnold
(Related: Marriage, Wedding, Accusations, Criticism, Luxury, Manners, May)
"I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions."
- Oksana Baiul
(Related: Feeling)
"To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter."
- Fredrik Bajer
(Related: Ideas, Arguments, Resolution)
"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
- Nicholson Baker
(Related: Day, Reading)
"The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Discrimination)
"You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think."
- Howard H. Baker, Jr.
"I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you."
- Jim Bakker
(Related: Examination)
"Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones."
- Robert T. Bakker
(Related: Age, Time, Animals, Land, Ocean, Sea)
"Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Actions, Adversity)
"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Evil, Will)
"Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Desire, Interest, May)
"To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Evil, Fight, Self)
"I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused."
- Scott Bakula
(Related: Fear, Hope, Agreement, Exploration, Space, Weapons)
"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: God, Earth, First, Heaven, Theology, Tyranny, Will)
"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: Life, Dignity, Instinct, Vitality)
"This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: God, Contradiction, Humanity, Lies)
"The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule."
- Emily Greene Balch
(Related: Desire, Liberty, Struggle, Tyranny)
"As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so."
- Emily Greene Balch
(Related: Time, Future, Judgment, Possibilities)
"Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?"
- John Baldacci
"One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you."
- Faith Baldwin
(Related: Life, Conviction, Nothing, Road, Will)
"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, Soul, Possibility, Conquest, Question, Surrender)
"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Talent, Nothing, World, Writer)
"Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind."
- James M. Baldwin
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Mind, Psychology)
"I'm a Jewish born-again Christian."
- Stephen Baldwin
(Related: Christian)
"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Time, English, Film, Months)
"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."
- J. G. Ballard
(Related: Soul, Fear, Future, Nothing)
"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Business, Houses, Ruin)
"Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Thought, Enjoyment, Key, Miser, World)
"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
- Albert Bandura
(Related: Justification, Service)
"I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor."
- Ashleigh Banfield
(Related: War, Americans, Fight)
"Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that."
- Lester Bangs
"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Life, Mistakes, Past, Regret)
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Life, Mistakes)
"Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach."
- Henry Campbell Bannerman
(Related: Answers, Force, Racing, Security)
"The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: University, World)
"I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days."
- Roger Bannister
(Related: People, Race, Want)
"It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise."
- William Banting
(Related: Friend, Appetite, Exercise, Old, Weight)
"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Children, Now, Parents, Pretty)
"But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: Time, Truth, Dream, Friends, Gain)
"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(Related: Victory, Gain, May)
"I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Society, Marriage)
"The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Government, Force)
"I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Day, Republican)
"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Country, Customer, Police, Trying, Will)
"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip."
- J. M. Barrie
"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."
- James M. Barrie
"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Time, Choice, Holiday, Religious)
"The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Time, People, Management, Democrats)
"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Travel, Opportunity, Rain, Will)
"I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange."
- Todd Barry
"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Comedy, Road)
"God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped."
- Drew Barrymore
(Related: God, Work, Body, Choice, Obvious)
"When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?"
- Ethel Barrymore
(Related: Life, Will)
"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."
- Roland Barthes
(Related: Knowledge, Formula, Mythology, World)
"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
- Roland Barthes
(Related: Desire, Language, Words)
"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."
- Jacques Barzun
(Related: Age, Civilization)
"Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!"
- Abu Bakar Bashir
(Related: Society, Community, Order, Radical)
"I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet."
- Count Basie
(Related: Feet, Listening)
"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
- Kim Basinger
(Related: Time, People, Intuition)
"There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Change, Time, Beginning, Interest, Now, Schools, World)
"Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does."
- Alan Bates
(Related: Voice)
"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Time)
"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Money, Confession)
"I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either."
- Gary Bauer
(Related: Government, Health, Bureaucracy, Care, Company, Decisions, Washington)
"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again."
- L. Frank Baum
"I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men."
- Richard Baxter
(Related: Men, Dying, Man)
"It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again."
- Michael Bay
(Related: Mind)
"Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?"
- Michael Bay
(Related: Work, Hell, Worth)
"People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world."
- Birch Bayh
(Related: Life, People, Attention, Fathers, World)
"I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money."
- Birch Bayh
(Related: Money, People, Gain, Right)
"But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government."
- Birch Bayh
(Related: Government, People, Babies, School, Vote)
"I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Soul, Protest, Sense)
"Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative."
- Jennifer Beals
"History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again."
- Alan Bean
(Related: History)
"If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Trust, Public, Want)
"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."
- Cecil Beaton
(Related: Gold, Islands, Sky)
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
- Cecil Beaton
(Related: Purpose, Vision, Integrity, Play, Will)
"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."
- Ann Beattie
(Related: Writers)
"Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways."
- Ann Beattie
(Related: Men, Women)
"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Desire, Gain)
"No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist."
- Beck
(Related: Artist, Bargain)
"Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Faith, People, Character, Civil rights, Content, Justice, Lies, Skin)
"But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war."
- Ulrich Beck
(Related: War, Sense, Terrorism)
"And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view."
- Ulrich Beck
(Related: Possibility, Hearing, Voice, World)
"It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host."
- Franz Beckenbauer
(Related: Opportunity, Career, Friends, Lies, World)
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
- Samuel Beckett
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
- Samuel Beckett
"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"
- Max Beckmann
(Related: Music, Death)
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
- Max Beckmann
(Related: Infinite, Space)
"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
- Catharine Beecher
(Related: Intelligence, Soul, People, Common sense, Liberty)
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Forgiveness, Forget, Saying, Will)
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Art, Man, Medicine, Sickness, Will)
"Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged."
- Paul Begala
(Related: Blind, Enemies, Eye, President)
"Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all."
- Paul Begala
(Related: Policy, Effect, Months, Presidency, President)
"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear."
- Menachem Begin
(Related: Country, Effect, Israel, World)
"Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Being, Now, World)
"I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community."
- Harry Belafonte
(Related: Community, Israel, Right, State)
"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Army, Navy, Protection)
"Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Work)
"I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas."
- Chris Bell
(Related: Complaint, Corruption, Delay, Ethics, Republican)
"Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: Beginning)
"Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: Time, Freedom, Leaders, Military, Result, Struggle)
"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Leadership, Time, Financial, Benefits, Children, Corporate, Expertise, World)
"Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Education, Children, Exercise, Future, Rights)
"I never look at things again once they're done."
- Brian M. Bendis
"Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Success, Time, Health, Failure, Anticipation, Hollywood, Sickness)
"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: History, Decision, Future, Racism, Today, Will, World)
"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Past)
"I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done."
- Michael Bennett
(Related: Justice)
"I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it."
- Robert Foster Bennett
(Related: War, Fact, Serenity, Terrorism)
"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
- Tony Bennett
(Related: Popular)
"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
- William Bennett
(Related: Happiness, Business, Attention, Will)
"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."
- William Bennett
(Related: Man, Now, Reason, Will)
"Man, an animal that makes bargains."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Man)
"The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving."
- Polly Berrien Berends
(Related: Love, Children, Discovery, Gain)
"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Genius, Training)
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Film, Moments)
"There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him."
- Peter Berg
(Related: Coach)
"The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace."
- Michael Bergdahl
(Related: Business, Focus, Key)
"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
- Peter L. Berger
(Related: Democracy, Economy)
"When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win."
- Dennis Bergkamp
(Related: People)
"My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again."
- Dennis Bergkamp
(Related: Games, Play)
"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Marriage, Reason)
"I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime."
- Ingrid Bergman
"In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside."
- Henri Bergson
(Related: Thought, Consciousness, Present)
"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."
- Isaiah Berlin
(Related: Ideas, Being)
"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."
- Isaiah Berlin
(Related: Men, Thought, Control, Values, Denial, Will)
"Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people."
- John Desmond Bernal
(Related: Religion, Soul, People, Expression, Opium, Protest, Religious, Sentiment, Suffering, World)
"The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order."
- John Desmond Bernal
(Related: Action, Army, Order)
"Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Imagination)
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."
- William Bernbach
(Related: Talent, Idea, Magic)
"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science."
- William Bernbach
(Related: Science, Advertising)
"Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again."
- Sandra Bernhard
(Related: College, Kids, Questions)
"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me."
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Life, Countries, Now)
"Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff."
- Corbin Bernsen
(Related: Feelings)
"It's like deja-vu, all over again."
- Yogi Berra
"I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison."
- Daniel Berrigan
(Related: Brother, Prison, Will, Years)
"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."
- Bernardo Bertolucci
(Related: Life, Censorship)
"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."
- Annie Besant
(Related: Arguments, Class, Crowds, Hatred, Liberty, Nation, Passion)
"There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war."
- Ernest Bevin
(Related: War, Facts, Folk, Man, Protection)
"When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous."
- Jello Biafra
(Related: Life, People, Trying)
"No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax."
- Joe Biden
(Related: Tax, Income, Investment, Will)
"Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community."
- Joe Biden
(Related: Home, Opportunity, American, Americans, Blood, Cause, Community, Obvious, Service, Spirit, Trade, World)
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Failure, Being, Enemies, First, Man)
"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Success, Sin)
"No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: War, Children, Fighting, Law, Mission, Nation, Support, Terrorism, Troops, Workers, Years)
"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)
"I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: Love, Work, Opportunity)
"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Being, Fight, Road)
"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Gain, Politeness)
"It's great playing someone who is not like me at all. I'm really a nice girl, so it's fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they're surprised that I'm a good person."
- Rachel Bilson
(Related: Home, People, Fun, Now)
"There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again."
- Rudolf Bing
(Related: Life, Manager, Disaster, First, Night, Opera)
"Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Funny, People, Feet)
"Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds."
- Larry Bird
"Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why."
- Bill Bixby
(Related: Children, Network, Parents, President)
"Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice."
- Georges Bizet
(Related: Religion, Ambition, Exploitation, Injustice, Vice)
"The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again."
- Claudia Black
(Related: Time, Family, Home, People, Hope, Actor, Faces, Friends, Night)
"We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies."
- Cofer Black
(Related: Certainty, Enemy, Will)
"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)
"People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library."
- Frank Black
(Related: Money, Brother, People)
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again."
- Hugo Black
(Related: Advice, Man, Play, Tennis)
"I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Life, Women, Fans, Name, Woman, Years)
"I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Wife, Career, First, Kids, Pretty)
"It was a wild time - a time that I don't miss anymore. But then again, I'm 62 years old now and I think that lifestyle would probably put me where Frank's at now."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Time, Now, Old, Years)
"When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs."
- Otis Blackwell
(Related: Interest, Songs, Writing)
"Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again."
- Nina Blackwood
(Related: Time, Now, Sound)
"So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74."
- Ruben Blades
(Related: End, Now, Right)
"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."
- Dennis C. Blair
(Related: Information)
"You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions."
- Gary Ryan Blair
(Related: Goal, Waiting)
"Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in."
- John Blair
(Related: Food, Police, Water)
"That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians."
- William Blake
(Related: God, Benefits, Right, Will)
"Everything in our favour was against us."
- Danny Blanchflower
"At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Responsibility, State, Wrong)
"Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season."
- Sepp Blatter
(Related: Effort, Future, Will, World)
"I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance."
- Carla Bley
(Related: Ignorance)
"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force."
- William Bligh
(Related: Strength, Force, Respectability, Years)
"The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects."
- Dave Blood
(Related: Time, End, Fun, Projects, Result)
"When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Love, Women, Thinking)
"This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Time, Dream, American)
"Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Country, Rights)
"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Discrimination, Insults, Martin)
"Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Religion, Open, Repression)
"When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again."
- Leon Blum
(Related: Woman)
"Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq."
- Earl Blumenauer
(Related: Action, Iraq, Years)
"The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: People, Progress, Democrats)
"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: War)
"I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again."
- David Blunkett
(Related: Life, Events, Public)
"There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice."
- Anthony Blunt
(Related: War, Cruelty, Vice)
"Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Work, Film)
"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
- Don Bluth
(Related: Waiting, Will)
"I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell."
- Nellie Bly
(Related: Life, Heaven, Hell, Liberty, Will)
"I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving."
- Nellie Bly
(Related: God, Pain)
"The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel."
- John Boehner
(Related: Peace, Destruction, Israel, Violence, Want)
"If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy."
- Eric Bogosian
(Related: People, First, Literature, Sense, Thinking)
"This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it."
- David Bohm
(Related: Thought, Want)
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
- David Bohm
(Related: Knowledge, Ability)
"And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence."
- David Bohm
(Related: Thought, Results, Thinking, Trying)
"The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision."
- David Boies
(Related: Love, Decision, Purpose, Constitution, Court, Decisions, Rights, Legislation, Majority, Minority, Past)
"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die."
- Anne Boleyn
(Related: People, Christian, Law, Man, Nothing, Will)
"Why can't she move in with you? Is she against that? She's not a Mormon or anything, is she?"
- Joseph Bologna
(Related: Mormon)
"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Reason)
"I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh."
- Simon Le Bon
(Related: Age, People, Jokes, Old)
"We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won."
- Simon Le Bon
(Related: Men, Girls)
"Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Battle, Being, Conflict, Iraq, National security, Service)
"At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Time, Iraq, Measure, Saying, Will)
"The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so."
- Tommy Bond
(Related: Play, Pretty)
"I like to be against the odds."
- Barry Bonds
"That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Love, Daughter, People, Choice)
"Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Country, Fighting, Name, Stability, states, Terrorism, United)
"It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Islam, Fight, Right)
"The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Development, Act, African, End, Fight, Order, states)
"But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: People, Being, End, Europe, Nations, United)
"Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous."
- John Bonham
"Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one."
- Mary Bono
(Related: Americans)
"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
- Daniel Boone
(Related: Delight)
"The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born."
- Elayne Boosler
(Related: Mothers)
"When the sun comes up, I have morals again."
- Elayne Boosler
(Related: Morals, Sun)
"Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that."
- Lizzie Andrew Borden
(Related: Home, Father, Church, Evening, Winter)
"'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them."
- David Borenstein
(Related: Men, Gain, Honor)
"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again."
- Hal Borland
(Related: October, Sight)
"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)
"It seemed to be inadmissible to give in on such a fundamental point. This would have meant that any one who would have wanted to be a terrorist could gain eventually their freedom thanks to another kidnapping."
- Robert Bourassa
(Related: Freedom, Gain)
"I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Women, Charity, Violence)
"Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Want)
"It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it."
- James Bovard
(Related: Faith, Government, People, Friend, Blind, Country, Years)
"He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words."
- Bobby Bowden
(Related: Fear, Meaning, Word, Words)
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Enemies, Feeling, Jealousy)
"A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge."
- Marvin Bower
(Related: Business, People, Profit)
"Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together."
- David Bowie
(Related: Time, Work, Now, Space, Years)
"I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again."
- Muriel Box
(Related: Love, Being, Hate, Want)
"So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Work, Financial, Energy, Oil, Right, World)
"Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: God, Will)
"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Cause, Democracy, Example, Military, Respect, World)
"Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again."
- Bruce Boxleitner
(Related: Ideas, Draft, First, Writer)
"I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion."
- Bruce Boxleitner
(Related: Love, Fashion)
"Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy."
- Belle Boyd
(Related: Acquaintance, Enemy, Gain, Information)
"It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams."
- Paul D. Boyer
(Related: Basketball, College, School, Skill)
"Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
"All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort."
- Anna C. Brackett
(Related: Action, Acting, Effort, Exercise, Force, Freedom, Necessity, Will)
"He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world."
- Anna C. Brackett
(Related: Letters, Man, Rest, Struggle, World)
"Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character."
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
(Related: Feelings, Idea, Character, Conformity, Order, Want)
"When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Expectations, Will)
"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Sports, Athletes, Difficulty, Metaphor, Obstacles, Overcoming)
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
- F. H. Bradley
(Related: Force, Struggle, Temptation, Yield)
"As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl."
- Terry Bradshaw
(Related: Winning, Fame)
"Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all."
- Sarah Brady
(Related: Buying)
"Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music."
- Zach Braff
(Related: Music, Thought)
"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: Business, Racism)
"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: Time, Punk)
"Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today."
- Billy Bragg
(Related: Politics, America, Today)
"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."
- Lakhdar Brahimi
(Related: Gain, Nations, Respect, United)
"Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice."
- Lakhdar Brahimi
(Related: People, Injustice)
"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars."
- Lakhdar Brahimi
(Related: Community, Genocide, Security, Troops)
"However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another."
- Lakhdar Brahimi
(Related: Time, Work, Afghanistan, Community, Influence, Neighbors, Now)
"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."
- Lakhdar Brahimi
(Related: People, Fact, Will)
"There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike."
- Lakhdar Brahimi
"Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Time, Improvement)
"I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh."
- Jo Brand
(Related: Will, Years)
"Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on."
- Jo Brand
(Related: Children, Want)
"I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that."
- Jo Brand
(Related: HusbThought)
"Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Balloons, Being, First, Flying, World)
"The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Force, Wind)
"Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid."
- Richard Branson
"And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Fun, Will)
"Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again."
- Robert Brault
(Related: Life)
"The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: War, Country, Fact, Iraq, Saying)
"I think Americans want to believe in this country again."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Americans, Country, Want)
"I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Women, People, Being, Civil rights, Now, Open)
"Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again."
- Toni Braxton
"It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science."
- James H. Breasted
(Related: Science, Achievement, Career, Study, Unity)
"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
(Related: Life, Hope, Seasons, Spring, Will)
"But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again."
- John Breaux
(Related: Time, People)
"If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Impatience, Interest, Man, News, Profit, Public, Tears)
"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Life, Film, First, Flowers, Living, Order, Water)
"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Community, Job, Office, Understanding)
"My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together."
- Beau Bridges
(Related: Work, Brother, Trying)
"The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession."
- John Bright
(Related: Government, Men, Parliament, Will)
"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."
- Claude M. Bristol
(Related: Success, Thought, Achievement, Wealth, Gain, Inventions)
"I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2."
- Eric Bristow
(Related: World)
"There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!"
- Poppy Z. Brite
(Related: Time, People, Books, Fact, Hate)
"I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred."
- Harold Brodkey
(Related: Funny, Peace, Time, Knowledge)
"What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous."
- Tom Brokaw
(Related: Internet, News)
"We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws."
- Jacob Bronowski
(Related: Nature, Control, Gain, Laws, Understanding)
"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life."
- Jacob Bronowski
(Related: Life, Time, Career, End, May, Will)
"The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself."
- Charles Bronson
(Related: Anger, Fear, Betrayal, Body, First, Frustration)
"Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought."
- Charles Bronson
(Related: Thought, Betrayal, Body, Worry)
"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."
- Emily Bronte
"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."
- Rupert Brooke
(Related: Kiss, Heart, Years)
"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)
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Gold, Will)
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Humor, Defense, Universe)
"The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Nature, Greatness, Will)
"They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: Constitution, Law, Right)
"I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung."
- Earl Browder
(Related: History, Leadership, Influence, Open, Struggle)
"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."
- Chester Brown
(Related: Mom, Reading, Research)
"I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: Time, People, Fact)
"Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: American, Jobs, Public)
"You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted."
- Dee Brown
"I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back."
- James Brown
(Related: Thought, Body)
"I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest."
- Jim Brown
(Related: Deep, Running)
"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
- Pam Brown
(Related: Conscience, Will)
"I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Life, Time, Work, Bargain, Nothing, Trade)
"I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Corporate, Leaders, Party, Will)
"Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste."
- Thomas Edward Brown
(Related: Art, Nature, Morality, Letters, Man, Rules, Taste)
"As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future."
- Thomas Edward Brown
(Related: Mother, Future, Old, Patience, Weakness)
"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Death, Cure, Labor)
"My sun sets to raise again."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Sun)
"My sun sets to rise again."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Sun)
"But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Purpose, Eyes, Nerves)
"The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!"
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Universe)
"Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: War, Hope, Crime, Fighting, Terrorism)
"It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Funny, Goals, Chance, Protest)
"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."
- Jack Bruce
(Related: Country, Internet, Sales)
"Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!"
- Michael Owen Bruce
(Related: Work, End, Months, Road)
"For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough."
- Tammy Bruce
(Related: Death, Civil rights, Gay, Wrong)
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
- Bill Bruford
(Related: Jazz)
"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."
- Alois Brunner
(Related: Chance)
"The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Colors, May)
"A man with money is no match against a man on a mission."
- Doyle Brunson
(Related: Money, Man, Mission)
"Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."
- William Jennings Bryan
(Related: Cities, Country, Magic, Spring, Will)
"There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again."
- Bill Bryson
(Related: Home, Life, Company)
"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
- Peabo Bryson
(Related: Guitar, Years)
"But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: Peace, Policy, Genocide, Media, Russia, Zone)
"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Open, Surrender)
"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Government, Liberty, Tyranny)
"This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security."
- Art Buchwald
(Related: Birthday, Security)
"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Related: Government, Defense)
"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: America)
"A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Legal, Thought, America, Betrayal, Committee, Giving)
"I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again."
- Genevieve Bujold
(Related: Study)
"You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case."
- Deborah Bull
(Related: Ballet, Example, Training)
"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Opera, Years)
"I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Being, London, Now, Want)
"Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: People, Play)
"Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her."
- Bernhard von Bulow
(Related: Peace, Alliance, EnglForce, Germany, Intentions)
"Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea."
- Bernhard von Bulow
(Related: War, People, Duty, Independence, Heroism, Right, Safety, Sea, World)
"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea."
- Charlotte Bunch
(Related: Women, Idea, Government, Effort, End, Rights, Human rights, Obligation, Violence)
"I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: People, Yoga)
"We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: Life, Drugs, Will)
"The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: War, Communism, Fascism, Fight, Struggle, Terror, World, World war)
"But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: War, Communism, Fascism, Fight, Struggle, Terror, World, World war)
"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."
- John Bunyan
(Related: Poor)
"Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Genius, First, Results, Universe, World)
"In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Country, Production, Wind)
"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: War, People, Will)
"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)
"To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Music, Artist, Choice, Compromise, Gain)
"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it."
- Ken Burns
(Related: Music, Play)
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
- Ken Burns
(Related: Americans, Film, Sense)
"Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves."
- Richard Burr
(Related: Change, Ability, Country, May, Protection)
"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."
- Edgar Rice Burroghs
(Related: Anger, Love, Contempt, Hate, Pity)
"I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom."
- Amanda Burton
(Related: Being, Emotions, End)
"Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder."
- Richard Francis Burton
(Related: May, Support)
"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."
- Leo Buscaglia
(Related: Play, Wind)
"Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror."
- George W. Bush
(Related: War, Winning, Iraq, Terror)
"We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Peace, Friends, Israel, State, Support, Terrorism, Violence, Will, World)
"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Gain, Man, Moon, Ships, Universe, Will)
"Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Civilization, Chaos, Iraq, Terror)
"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."
- George W. Bush
(Related: War, Country, Terror, Yesterday)
"The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Financial, Growth, Strength, Crisis, Taxes)
"America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
- George W. Bush
(Related: America, Proof, Smoking)
"I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand."
- Lauren Bush
(Related: Family, Hurt, Want)
"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Comedy, Man, Old, Parents)
"Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Men, People, Attention, Body, Self, Sexuality)
"I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Kids, Want)
"Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this."
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
(Related: May, Promises, Will)
"To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge."
- Geezer Butler
(Related: Challenge, Sabbath)
"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Controversy, Temper)
"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Opinion, Will)
"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Love, Instinct, Reason)
"Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again."
- Yancy Butler
"Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will."
- Eric Butterworth
(Related: God, Consciousness, Devil, Force, Man, Possession, Spirits, Thinking, Will)
"For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force."
- Rocco Buttiglione
(Related: Christian, Communism, Driving, Europe, Fact, Fight, Force)
"From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Age, Country, Depression, Struggle, Tyranny)
"The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again."
- Ruth Buzzi
(Related: Love, Comedy, Martin, Variety, Writers)
"I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else."
- Amanda Bynes
(Related: Teen, People, Being, Class)
"I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments."
- James F. Byrnes
(Related: Peace, Mistake, People, Hope, American, Force, Nation, Will)
"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Soul, Body)
"I'm never going to get in a fight in public again."
- Scott Caan
(Related: Fight, Public)
"Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is."
- James Branch Cabell
(Related: Poetry, Being, Man, Rebellion)
"They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him."
- Jack Cade
(Related: Land, Will)
"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."
- Herb Caen
(Related: Time, Pain, Trouble)
"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."
- James Callaghan
(Related: Leader, Courage, Act, Advice)
"There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility."
- Maria Callas
(Related: Age, Childhood, Children, Law, Responsibility)
"I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was."
- Maria Callas
(Related: Age, Fool, Friends, Girls, Play)
"Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever."
- Roberto Calvi
(Related: Nothing, Will)
"Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?"
- Roberto Calvi
"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God."
- John Calvin
(Related: God, Misery, Will)
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
- Italo Calvino
(Related: Knowledge, Concern, World)
"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."
- Stephen Cambone
(Related: Choice)
"Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again."
- Julia Cameron
(Related: Nothing, Pursuit, Quest, Will)
"Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board."
- Matt Cameron
(Related: Time, People, Being, Depression)
"I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Heart, Will, World)
"With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue."
- Anne Campbell
(Related: Money, Hope, Concern, Difficulties, Football, Land, Now, Will)
"The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer."
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
(Related: Legal, American, Defense, Office, President)
"I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution."
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
(Related: Marriage, Act, Constitution, Defense, Discrimination, Minority)
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
- Joseph Campbell
(Related: Space)
"If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything."
- Neve Campbell
(Related: Home, Life, Body, Company, Dancing, Evening)
"If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!"
- Vivian Campbell
(Related: Humanity, Justice, Will, World)
"The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: Time, Abortion, Community, Gay, Will)
"Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem."
- Tony Campolo
"I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: Punishment)
"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Order, World)
"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Life, Sin)
"Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself."
- Dyan Cannon
(Related: Being)
"As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again."
- Max Cannon
(Related: Space)
"Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Government, Being, Help, Hurt, Jobs, Now, Washington)
"People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Government, People, Responsibility)
"I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Job, Jobs, Taxes)
"Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: People, American, Learning, Order, Reality, Today)
"The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Expediency, President, Principles, Republicans, Voting, Want)
"And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again."
- Jerry Cantrell
(Related: Power, Ballads, Hair)
"We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us."
- Maria Cantwell
(Related: Heart, Enron, Rest, Will)
"Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Age, Health, May)
"I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players."
- Jennifer Capriati
(Related: Experience)
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
- Orson Scott Card
(Related: Work)
"Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books."
- Orson Scott Card
(Related: Behavior, Books, Laws)
"We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again."
- Drew Carey
"I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated."
- Drew Carey
(Related: Government, Information)
"One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting."
- Mariah Carey
(Related: God, Day, Quitting, Voice)
"If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again."
- Will Carleton
(Related: Home, Earth, Heaven)
"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."
- Tucker Carlson
(Related: Policy, Arguments, End, Foreign policy)
"Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions."
- Arvid Carlsson
(Related: Action, Actions, Effect, Risk, Running)
"My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates."
- Steve Carlton
(Related: Old)
"A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it."
- Vanessa Carlton
(Related: Success, People, First, Influence, Want)
"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Thought, Man)
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Life, Gain, Question)
"Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Men, Time)
"One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto."
- Stokely Carmichael
(Related: People, Now, Racism, Struggle)
"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)
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Successful, Man, Mistakes, Profit, Will)
"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Opinion, Will)
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Work, Nothing, World)
"When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape."
- Charisma Carpenter
(Related: Fear, Gain, Pregnancy)
"Well, they know that I'm not very anxious to get into one hour again."
- Charisma Carpenter
"Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again."
- Liz Carpenter
(Related: Women, Office)
"Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror."
- Caleb Carr
(Related: Terror)
"Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it."
- David Carradine
(Related: Being, Training, Want)
"There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated."
- Keith Carradine
(Related: Men, People, Argument, Facts)
"Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia."
- Jose Carreras
(Related: Life, God, Goal, Struggle)
"The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again."
- Tia Carrere
(Related: Sound, Want)
"When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: People, Performance, First, Will, Wonder, Worth)
"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Work, Power, Hope, Will)
"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."
- Lewis Carroll
(Related: Question, Thinking)
"So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'."
- Frank Carson
(Related: Want)
"Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it."
- Kit Carson
(Related: Money, Time, Thinking)
"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Age, Credit, Gain, Order, World)
"In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'"
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Strength, Ceremony, Nation, Principles, School, Spiritual)
"It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Decisions, Interest)
"Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime."
- John Carter
(Related: Government, First, Opponents, Party, Public, Suspicion)
"I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court."
- Vince Carter
(Related: Court, Gain, Respect, Want)
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Related: Earth)
"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Related: Earth, Memory)
"It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate."
- David Caruso
(Related: Movies, People, Fact)
"It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice."
- Enrico Caruso
(Related: Nature, Time, Work, Necessity, Public, Singing, Voice)
"When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be."
- George Washington Carver
(Related: Thoughts, Actions, Hate, Hell, Living, Will)
"I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one."
- James Carville
(Related: Marriage, Gay)
"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power."
- Julian Casablancas
(Related: Power, Religion, People, Gain)
"I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage."
- Ed Case
(Related: Marriage, Gay)
"You can't just play the same thing, over and over again."
- Neko Case
(Related: Play)
"I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike."
- Rosanne Cash
(Related: Country, Wrong)
"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
- Mary Cassatt
(Related: Art, Life)
"The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights."
- Rene Cassin
(Related: Possibility, Rights, Influence)
"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
- Dan Castellaneta
(Related: Duty, Jury)
"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
- Barbara Castle
(Related: Economy, Fighting, Philosophy, Unemployment)
"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."
- Fidel Castro
(Related: Faith, Men, Action, Revolution)
"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
- Fidel Castro
(Related: Dictatorship, Revolution)
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Memories)
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
- Kim Cattrall
(Related: Theatre)
"We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough."
- Jerome Cavanagh
(Related: Hope, Riot)
"You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else."
- William Cavendish
(Related: Art, Nature, Strength, Nothing, Order, Spirit)
"I'll rail against what I think is wrong."
- Neil Cavuto
(Related: Wrong)
"If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!"
- Neil Cavuto
(Related: Hair)
"When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again."
- Camilo Jose Cela
(Related: Cards, Talk)
"The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Being, Depression)
"I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration."
- Emanuel Celler
"I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Power, Growth, Civil rights)
"Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Sacrifice, Perseverance, Struggle, Terrorism, Vigilance, Will, Years)
"So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Action, Canada, Iraq, Military)
"Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious."
- Michel De Certeau
(Related: Politics, Churches, Religious)
"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Truth, Falsehood, Oil, Water, Will)
"He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Trying, World)
"I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Wife, Thought, Idea, Fear, Fact, Woman)
"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."
- Marc Chagall
(Related: Artist, Dignity, Duty, Lies, Sense, Sleep, Wonder, World)
"This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign."
- James Chalmers
(Related: Now, Rebellion, State, Writer)
"Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again."
- Joshua Chamberlain
(Related: Life, College, Danger, Hardship)
"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."
- Joshua Chamberlain
(Related: Old, Stars)
"This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal."
- Joshua Chamberlain
(Related: Life, Christ, Mystery, Reward, Service)
"I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight."
- Wilt Chamberlain
(Related: Boston, Games)
"At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: Faith, Society, Man, Mercy, Question)
"A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: Fact, Man)
"On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: Feeling, Night, Pleasure, Road)
"The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services."
- Saxby Chambliss
(Related: Men, Women, Defense, Law, Nation, Will)
"Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan."
- Saxby Chambliss
(Related: Action, Inexplicable, Trade, Will)
"Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies."
- Saxby Chambliss
(Related: Intelligence, Defense, First, Security, states, Terrorism, United)
"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever."
- Nicolas de Chamfort
(Related: Scandal, Will)
"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Bargain, Deception, End, Parents)
"I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us."
- Samuel de Champlain
(Related: Men, People, Duty)
"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Parents)
"When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese."
- Iris Chang
(Related: First)
"Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law."
- Iris Chang
(Related: Civil rights, Country, Difficulty, Law, Laws, Mind)
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again."
- Michael Chang
(Related: First, Succeed)
"I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom."
- Michael Chang
(Related: Mom, Nature, Time, Play)
"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Nature, Knowledge, Growth, Ignorance, Mind)
"I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me."
- Brandi Chastain
(Related: Time, School, Soccer, State)
"Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again."
- Brandi Chastain
(Related: Sports, Work, Women, Community, Events, Fun)
"I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual."
- Dennis Chavez
(Related: Freedom, Limitations, Man, Voice)
"The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target."
- Linda Chavez
(Related: May)
"The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money."
- Linda Chavez
(Related: Money, Truth, Labor, Laws, Public, Workers)
"If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: Aspirations, Force, Military, Reason)
"I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: War)
"You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again."
- Cher
(Related: Promise, Will)
"In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Rest)
"The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort."
- C. J. Cherryh
(Related: Home, Family, Society, Fight, Fighting, Gain, Gold, May, Winter)
"And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again."
- Michael Chertoff
(Related: Money, Cities, Risk, Security)
"Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl."
- Kenny Chesney
(Related: Home, Music, People, Country, Country music, May, Songs)
"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Love, People, Fear, Ambition, Pity, Pride, Reason)
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Mind)
"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Pride)
"It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Day, Machine, Rain)
"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."
- Dominic Chianese
(Related: Father, American)
"You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: People, Battle, Effort, Pleasure)
"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time."
- Chilon
(Related: Time, Gain, Loss, Pain)
"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Morality, Profit)
"Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again."
- Margaret Cho
(Related: Beauty, Direction, Right)
"Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Money, Time, People, Growth, Jobs)
"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
- Noam Chomsky
(Related: Argument, Violence)
"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world."
- Deepak Chopra
(Related: Thought, Hatred, Violence, World)
"The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Men, Mother, Daughter, Daughters)
"For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?"
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Soul, Gain, Loss, Man, Profit, World)
"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Truth, Eye, Heaven, Man)
"I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help."
- Erika Christensen
(Related: Experience, Life, People, Drugs, Help, Want)
"Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Want)
""No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Expression)
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Kites, Wind)
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Time)
"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"
- Winston Churchill
(Related: People, Forget, Will, World)
"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Being, Risk)
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Argument, Conversation, Democracy)
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Being, Risk)
"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Defense, Departure, Enemy)
"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
- John Ciardi
(Related: Trust, Concern, Pen, Theory)
"If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna."
- Madonna Ciccone
(Related: Fans)
"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Life, Fire, Infinity)
"As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Character, Fire, Heaven, Man, Sea, Water)
"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Children, Now)
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Man)
"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."
- Tom Clancy
(Related: Gain, Loss, Right, Vietnam)
"The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this."
- Eric Clapton
(Related: First)
"It's real good to be back with you again this year."
- Dick Clark
"The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me."
- George Rogers Clark
(Related: Mother, Old, State)
"Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke."
- Guy Clark
(Related: Change, Time, Evolution)
"I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost."
- J. Reuben Clark
(Related: Blood, Liberty)
"If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves."
- John Bates Clark
(Related: Men, Court, Gain, Violence, Will)
"Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions."
- John Bates Clark
(Related: Experience, Knowledge, Worth, Years)
"As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: God, Truth, Enemy)
"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."
- Arthur C. Clarke
(Related: Nature, Judges, Laws, Mercy)
"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."
- Arthur C. Clarke
(Related: Men, Earth, Extreme, Nationalism, Perspective, Stars)
"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
- Eldridge Cleaver
(Related: Dream, American, Struggle)
"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."
- Grover Cleveland
(Related: Act, Public)
"I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!"
- Patsy Cline
(Related: Fancy, Today, Will)
"I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore."
- Patsy Cline
"Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Democrats, Republicans, Today, Tomorrow)
"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Finance, Nation)
"Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Committee, Democrats, Republicans, Security, Today)
"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."
- Ty Cobb
(Related: Life, Fight)
"The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field."
- Ty Cobb
(Related: Challenge)
"From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war."
- Richard Cobden
(Related: Government, War, Peace, Confidence, Proof, Security)
"It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share."
- Howard Coble
(Related: American, Gain, Obvious, Workers)
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Poets)
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
- Paulo Coelho
(Related: Time, Will)
"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them."
- Joel Coen
(Related: People, Actor, Result)
"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
- Joel Coen
(Related: Work, People, Arguments, Questions, Years)
"To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down."
- Andrew Cohen
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Court, Theory, Will)
"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Work, Idols, Literature, Philosophy)
"There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them."
- Stephen Cohen
(Related: History, Hope, Day, Memory, Russia, Will)
"I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight."
- Roy M. Cohn
(Related: Fight, Letters)
"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Home, Injury, Violence)
"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Force, Law, Reason)
"Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face."
- William Colby
(Related: Money, Years)
"By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Gain)
"Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Knowledge, Deception, Persecution, Temptation, Word)
"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003."
- Juan Cole
(Related: Americans, April, Country, March, Party)
"When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Success, Successful, Want)
"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Anger, Music, Compassion, Luck, Pain)
"And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are."
- Dabney Coleman
(Related: Time, Successful)
"For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Music, Gain, Pretty, Unity)
"I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart."
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Related: Heart, Country, Name, Past)
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Related: Freedom, Poison, Solitude, Wine)
"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal."
- Robert Collier
(Related: Goal, Encouragement, Nothing, Praise, Tides, Trouble, Will, World)
"I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts."
- Bootsy Collins
(Related: Work, People, Selling)
"And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Beauty, Food, Health, Books, Eating, Habits)
"When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!"
- Judy Collins
(Related: Inspiration, Friend, Talk)
"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."
- Kitty O'Neill Collins
(Related: First, Man, Woman)
"I'd be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right."
- Stephen Collins
(Related: Right, Writing)
"Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again."
- Stephen Collins
(Related: Job, Writing)
"I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
- Wilkie Collins
(Related: Income)
"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Age, Excess, Interest, Years, Youth)
"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Books, Friends, Will)
"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Night)
"He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage."
- George Combe
(Related: Power, Facts, Goodness)
"I think it would be fun to write about movies again."
- Bill Condon
(Related: Movies, Fun)
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."
- Confucius
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, First, Reflection)
"We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer."
- Michael Connelly
(Related: Government, Power, Law, Now, Question, Want)
"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
- Billy Connolly
(Related: Marriage)
"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Strategy, Buying, Gain, Leaders, Old, Support, Trade, World)
"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."
- Robert Conrad
(Related: Name)
"But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication."
- Tony Conrad
(Related: Actions, Communication, Literature)
"Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse."
- John Conyers
(Related: Judges, Leaders, Violence)
"It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws."
- John Conyers
(Related: Age, Americans, Being, Civil rights, Crime, Discrimination, Fight, Hate, Laws)
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
- James Cook
(Related: Attention, Limitations, Will)
"We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: People)
"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: Time, War, Peace, Victory, Army, Nation)
"They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw."
- Alice Cooper
(Related: Home)
"We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene."
- Jeff Cooper
(Related: Solution)
"Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up."
- Wendy Cope
(Related: Peace, Men, Christmas, Earth, Goodwill)
"It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Age, Success, Career)
"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Opinion, Profession)
"George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again."
- Francis Ford Coppola
"The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other."
- Piers Corbyn
(Related: Years)
"I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece."
- Rob Corddry
(Related: Funny, Want)
"You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Fame, Will)
"As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Winning, Chicago)
"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Power, Universe)
"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Crime, State)
"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again."
- Andrea Corr
(Related: Action)
"The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this."
- Jon Corzine
(Related: Act, Americans, President, Risk)
"If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better."
- Jon Corzine
(Related: People, American, Americans, Country, Will)
"'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide."
- Jon Corzine
(Related: Genocide, Mankind)
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Business, Wisdom, Children, Mistakes)
"Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert."
- Elvis Costello
(Related: Music, Guitar, Man, Mind, Play)
"Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Quality, Development, Growth, Ability, Nation, Population, Stress, Water)
"Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: People, Culture, Effort, Genocide, Humanity)
"I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Feelings)
"My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else."
- Marion Cotillard
(Related: Parents, Want)
"Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: America, Difference, Idiots, Liberals, Self)
"We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: War, Fight, Liberals, states, United, Want)
"Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Time, Work, Democrats, Will)
"Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Government, Abortion, Democrats, Taxes, Will, Words)
"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Future, Will)
"Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Fashion)
"Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again."
- Doug Coupland
"If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke."
- Katie Couric
(Related: Word)
"All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things."
- Victor Cousin
(Related: Men, Nature, Development, Laws, Protection, Reason, Right, State)
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Leadership, Success, Management, Efficiency, Right)
"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."
- Noel Coward
(Related: Love, Peace, Courage, Greatness, Hope, Country, Day, Dignity, Gallantry, Heaven, Hell, Spirit, Will)
"I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again."
- Noel Coward
(Related: Thought)
"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"
- William Cowper
(Related: Heart, Man, Popular, Proof)
"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
- William Cowper
(Related: Happiness, Life, Purpose, Bargain, Existence)
"Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain."
- George Crabbe
(Related: Gain)
"To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind."
- George Crabbe
(Related: Experience, Life, Courage, Effort, Mankind, Mind, World)
"When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal."
- Yvonne Craig
(Related: Energy)
"True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is."
- Ralph A. Cram
(Related: Life, Influence, Nothing, Numbers, Weight)
"In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition."
- Ralph A. Cram
(Related: Character, Aristocracy, Evil, Measure, Race, Tradition)
"What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Money, Now, Right, Saying, Today, Will)
"They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again."
- Walter Crane
(Related: People, Right, Shops)
"Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him."
- Robert Creeley
(Related: Lying, Man, Mind, Now, Words)
"I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming."
- Uberto Crescenti
(Related: Causes, Global warming, Man, Scientists, Senate, Theory)
"The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself."
- Martin van Creveld
"It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again."
- Peter Criss
(Related: People, Running, Will)
"I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Country, Disgrace, Duty, Gain, Ruin, Self, Will)
"The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: Equality, Civilization, Achievement, American, Americans, Benefits, Gain, Liberty, Prosperity, World)
"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Life)
"The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again."
- Hansie Cronje
(Related: End, Now, Quick, Sales, Shops)
"I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently."
- Hansie Cronje
(Related: Mistake)
"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man."
- George Crook
(Related: Positive, Man, Mind, Prejudice, Race, Will)
"Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money."
- Mackenzie Crook
(Related: Money, Buying, Now, Worth)
"I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists."
- Harry Crosby
(Related: Gay, Wind, World)
"I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again."
- Jon Crosby
(Related: Feeling, Longing, Song)
"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)
"I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine."
- David Cross
(Related: Years)
"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
- Stanley Crouch
(Related: Business, Court, Public)
"Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: Art, Nature, Wisdom, Fact)
"I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: Business, Nature, Being, Hate)
"The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against."
- John Crowley
(Related: Difficulties, Inspiring, Want)
"Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them."
- Johan Cruijff
"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people."
- Tom Cruise
(Related: People, Humanity)
"When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate."
- Robert Crumb
(Related: World)
"Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again."
- Warren Cuccurullo
(Related: Old, Years)
"I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie."
- Macaulay Culkin
(Related: Movies, Art, Want, Years)
"I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again."
- Macaulay Culkin
(Related: Actors, Old, Want, Years)
"If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."
- Michael Cunningham
(Related: Want)
"The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV."
- Kaley Cuoco
"After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again."
- Kaley Cuoco
(Related: Family, Love, Want)
"I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators."
- Andrew Cuomo
(Related: Acting, Corruption, Integrity, Legislators, Public)
"I am against the death penalty."
- Andrew Cuomo
(Related: Death)
"If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: World)
"Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't."
- Jamie Lee Curtis
(Related: Day, Want)
"Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule."
- Richard Curtis
(Related: Books, Self)
"It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot."
- John Cusack
(Related: Men, Movies, Love, Women, People, Pretty)
"Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People."
- Caleb Cushing
(Related: Government, Intelligence, People, Virtue, Forget, Gentlemen, Republican)
"The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one."
- Lloyd Cutler
(Related: Opportunity, Americans, Country)
"Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid."
- Chuck D.
(Related: Bragging, Now, Voting)
"Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me."
- Puff Daddy
(Related: Faith, God, Celebrity, Lawyers, Man)
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
- Roald Dahl
(Related: Memory, School, Stairs, Trying)
"Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever."
- Roald Dahl
(Related: Eating, Result, Taste)
"We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Key, President, Support)
"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
- Salvador Dali
(Related: Experience, Being, Pleasure)
"'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable."
- Timothy Dalton
(Related: Film, Glory, Opera, Wind)
"I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer."
- Johnny Damon
(Related: Beer, Drinking, Right, Weight)
"I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment."
- Matt Damon
(Related: People, Being, Famous, May)
"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."
- Matt Damon
(Related: Play, Songs)
"Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things."
- Matt Damon
(Related: People, Killing)
"I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs."
- Hugh Dancy
(Related: Money, Time, Bargain, Effort)
"The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since."
- Hugh Dancy
(Related: Experience, Dance, End, Reason, Song, Voice)
"I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Hair)
"I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Experience)
"My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend."
- Rodney Dangerfield
(Related: Marriage, Wife, Boyfriend)
"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Faith, Men, Women, People, God, Americans, Dignity, Enemy, Liberty, Self, Will)
"The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again."
- Rick Danko
(Related: Time, Famous, Play)
"Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air."
- Blythe Danner
(Related: Experience, Friends, Grandparents, Saying, Walking)
"The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies."
- Georges Jacques Danton
(Related: Enemies, Today)
"We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring."
- Georges Jacques Danton
"During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Effect, Exercise, Gain, Solitude)
"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Performance, Being, Hurt)
"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Gain)
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
- Charles Darwin
(Related: Men, American)
"We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority."
- Tom Daschle
(Related: Being, Challenge, Minority)
"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people."
- Tom Daschle
(Related: Leader, People, Destruction, Iraq, Nation, Weapons, World)
"I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again."
- Elizabeth David
(Related: Trying)
"The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense."
- Peter Maxwell Davies
(Related: Art, Education, Profit, Sense)
"At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall."
- Peter Maxwell Davies
(Related: Art, Education, Music)
"What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man."
- Ray Davies
(Related: Man, Right)
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
- Robertson Davies
(Related: Age, Building, Light, Maturity, Old, Youth)
"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
- Ron Davies
(Related: Question)
"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)
"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."
- Angela Davis
(Related: Alliance, Energy, Repression)
"Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Gay, Nothing)
"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Man)
"Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate."
- Geena Davis
"This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win."
- Geoff Davis
(Related: Thought, Spirit)
"I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again."
- Gray Davis
"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)
"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)
"Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God."
- Judy Davis
(Related: Men, Women, God, Ideas)
"Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective."
- Patti Davis
(Related: Father, Proof, Research, Television, Treatment)
"Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body."
- Patti Davis
(Related: Belief, Hope, Vision, Body, Walking)
"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."
- Rebecca H. Davis
(Related: Time, Heart, Bargain, Driving, Will, World)
"I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again."
- Richard H. Davis
(Related: Feelings, Now)
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
- Richard Dawkins
(Related: Religion, Understanding, World)
"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Legal, Battle, Community)
"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Thought)
"Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time."
- Robin Day
(Related: Time, Morality, Commerce)
"I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true."
- Robin Day
"The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change."
- Stockwell Day
(Related: Change, Work, Gain, Nation, Reputation, Trying)
"Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong."
- Stockwell Day
(Related: History, Time, Liberals, Right, Wrong)
"In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican."
- Stockwell Day
(Related: People, Conservative, Liberal, Republican, states, United, Vote, Will)
"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Israel, World)
"Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income."
- Mark Dayton
(Related: Tax, Income, Poor, Republicans, Senate, Support, Wage)
"For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Health, Opportunity, Beginning, Community, May, Nurses, Will, Years)
"I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Heart, Chance, Trouble, Words)
"I've waffled before. I'll waffle again."
- Howard Dean
"I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils."
- Howard Dean
(Related: May)
"I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault."
- Kool Moe Dee
(Related: Fault)
"Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death."
- Peter DeFazio
(Related: Death, Men, War, Women, Humanity, Measure, Now, Opposition)
"One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement."
- Edgar Degas
(Related: Art, Accident, Nothing)
"We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything."
- Jacques Delors
(Related: Change, Right, Struggle, Want)
"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."
- Jacques Delors
(Related: Driving, Europe, Force, Liberal)
"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law."
- Cecil B. DeMille
(Related: Law)
"A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism."
- Jim DeMint
(Related: Extremism, Iraq, Light, Shadow, Will)
"There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again."
- Ted Demme
(Related: Want)
"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."
- Democritus
(Related: Cause, Gain)
"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."
- Democritus
(Related: Hope, Beginning, Gain, Loss)
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Security, Suspicion)
"I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again."
- Judi Dench
(Related: Actors)
"We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders."
- Dorothy Denning
(Related: Government, Court, Gain, Privacy)
"Generally I'm against regulation."
- Dorothy Denning
"We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future."
- Charlie Dent
(Related: Freedom, Future, Now, Religious, states, Tolerance, United)
"I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly."
- James Denton
(Related: Money, Job)
"Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted."
- James Denton
(Related: Work, People, Friends, Fun, Hard work)
"I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences."
- John Denver
(Related: Life, Understanding)
"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Selling, Tomorrow)
"In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again."
- Rick Derringer
(Related: Christian, Past, Years)
"I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate."
- Alan Dershowitz
(Related: College, Debate, Israel, Right, Television, Terrorism, Years)
"Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible."
- William Devane
(Related: Change, Control, Actors, Right, Writers)
"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
- Bernadette Devlin
(Related: Gain, May, Worth)
"Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia."
- Ted Dexter
"Biblical names are hot again."
- Anita Diament
(Related: Names)
"Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen."
- Dustin Diamond
(Related: People, Boxing, Word)
"Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon."
- Jim Diamond
(Related: God, Hope, Right, Talk, Visit)
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Joy, Meeting, Nothing, Pain, Parting)
"My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra."
- Angie Dickinson
(Related: Mother, Being)
"A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded."
- Bruce Dickinson
(Related: Conflict, Interest, Now)
"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Life, Will)
"The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country."
- Norm Dicks
(Related: Men, Women, People, American, Country, Majority, Military, Party, Today, Vote, Voting)
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Man, Suffering)
"We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again."
- Casper Van Dien
(Related: Women, Mistakes)
"I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Logic, Waking, Years)
"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Children, World, Years)
"As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Life, Work, Loss)
"Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again."
- David Dinkins
(Related: People, Now, Today)
"But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown."
- David Dinkins
"People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far."
- Marcel Dionne
(Related: Experience, People, Winning, Career, Regret)
"We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again."
- Everett Dirksen
(Related: Now, Past, Quiet, Years)
"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Life, Competition)
"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Power, Health, Men, Conscience, Fame, Pleasure)
"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Calamity, Difference, Misfortune)
"Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Being)
"Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona."
- Larry Dixon
(Related: Time, Competition, Rest, Will, Worry)
"And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday."
- Alfred Doblin
(Related: Time, Being, Justice, World)
"I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all."
- Frank Dobson
(Related: Muslim, Schools)
"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."
- Anthony Doerr
(Related: Experience, Friends, Fun, Man, Maturity, May, School, Trying, Words)
"They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible."
- John Doerr
(Related: Family, Gain, World)
"I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me."
- Lexa Doig
(Related: Job, Universe)
"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
- Don Dokken
(Related: Gold, World)
"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again."
- Eric Dolphy
(Related: Music)
"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Charm, Colors, Singing, Voice)
"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar."
- Phil Donahue
(Related: Charity, Volunteerism)
"The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant."
- James Donald
(Related: People)
"If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again."
- Sam Donaldson
"Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again."
- Richard Donner
"I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone."
- Jeffrey Donovan
(Related: Property)
"Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them."
- Richard Dooling
(Related: Computers, Financial, Credit, Experts, Folk, Talking)
"I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Home, War, Gratitude, First, Terrorism)
"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure."
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
(Related: Discovery, Fiction, Nothing, Pleasure)
"The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated."
- David Douglas
(Related: Hope, Joy, Land, May, Pleasure)
"The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall."
- Mary Douglas
(Related: Old, Saints, World)
"There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors."
- Stephen Douglas
(Related: War, Man, Question, states, United)
"It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it."
- Robert Downey, Jr.
(Related: Idea, Gain)
"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
(Related: Character, Children, First, Parents)
"The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience."
- Rachel Dratch
(Related: Experience, Idea, Fun, Pretty, Trying)
"I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again."
- Dr. Dre
(Related: Change)
"I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing."
- Fran Drescher
"I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Work, Will)
"Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Knowledge, Decision, Expectations, Information, Results)
"Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Drinks)
"After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis."
- Alexander Dubcek
(Related: War)
"I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again."
- Hilary Duff
(Related: Love, Control, Clothes)
"When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart."
- Raoul Dufy
(Related: Nature, Heart, Study)
"Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me."
- Michael Dukakis
"I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place!"
- George Duke
(Related: Time)
"I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning."
- Patty Duke
(Related: Bed, Night)
"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Government, Violence)
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
- Alexandre Dumas
(Related: Failure, Being, Enemies, First, Man)
"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."
- Alan Dundes
(Related: Culture, Future, Light, Questions)
"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person."
- Katherine Dunham
(Related: Ability, Career, Dancing, Will)
"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."
- Helen Dunmore
(Related: Hope, Books, Will)
"The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized."
- Katherine Dunn
(Related: Women, Schools, Violence)
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
- Will Durant
(Related: Acting, Machine, Majority, Minority, United)
"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."
- Will Durant
(Related: Virtue, Hatred, May, Vice)
"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
- Will Durant
(Related: Income)
"Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante
(Related: People)
"These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation."
- Dick Durbin
(Related: Men, Women, Country, Defense, Fact, Nation, Reputation, Risk)
"It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh."
- Emile Durkheim
(Related: Life, Time, Comfort, Man)
"I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Effort, Rules)
"Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: Change, Time, World)
"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: Control, Birth control, Hunger)
"Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that."
- Charles S. Dutton
(Related: Life, Character)
"And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is."
- Charles S. Dutton
(Related: Movies)
"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Genius, Reality, Rebellion, United)
"Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Men, Power, Arguments, Name, Radical)
"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Men, Women, Freedom, Justice, Struggle, Support, Violence, Want)
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."
- Wayne Dyer
"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Nature, Dreams)
"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors."
- Esther Dyson
(Related: Politics, Father, People, Favors, Washington)
"My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: Acting, Now, Will)
"We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again."
- Sheena Easton
(Related: Funny, Life, Love, People, Now, Teaching)
"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."
- Clint Eastwood
(Related: Marriage)
"Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow."
- Abba Eban
(Related: Time, Today, Tomorrow)
"Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains."
- Bernard Ebbers
(Related: Company, Internet, Post)
"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
(Related: Force, Night, Rules, School)
"A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness."
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
(Related: Heart, Consciousness, Effort, Will)
"Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive."
- Richard Eberhart
(Related: Death, Feelings, Heart, Mankind, Now, Poems)
"The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again."
- Dick Ebersol
(Related: Financial, Winning, Rights, Property)
"I will never be cynical again about people."
- Dick Ebersol
(Related: People, Will)
"None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Experience, Gain, Old)
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
- Umberto Eco
(Related: Life, Nature, War, Time, Books, Mankind)
"I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time."
- Stefan Edberg
(Related: Time)
"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
- Arthur Eddington
(Related: Hope, Law, Nothing, Theory)
"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
- Arthur Eddington
(Related: Nature, Science, Mind)
"You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Fleas, Injustice, Nation)
"People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: People, Act, Credit, Vote)
"You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way."
- Anthony Eden
(Related: Peace, Policy, Gain, May, Violence)
"In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past."
- Charles Edison
(Related: Time, Past, Promises, Public, Reform)