8790 Quotes & Sayings

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question ... is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied. — Calvin Coolidge

I don't give a fiddler's fart! — Frank McCourt

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love. — Lawrence Durrell

St. Paul's
Loomed like a bubble o'er the town. — Oscar Wilde

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders. — Dick Cheney

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad. — Bruno Zheng Wu

Today's college students demand a self-segregating "safe space". Rosa Parks spinning in her grave. — A.E. Samaan

This is the best thing I've ever done," he said. And he pushed into her, hungry to take the step for his own mankind. Daisy — Suanne Laqueur

Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem ... — P.W. Creighton

I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once. — Margot Kidder

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies. — Howard Coble

Whether the challenge is getting a raise or a promotion, doing our job in a certain way, pushing an elected official to vote for a bill we favor, planning a vacation with a spouse, or getting a child to eat right, we are always, consciously or not, gauging our power: assessing our capacity to get others to behave as we want. We bridle at the power of others and its irritating and inconveniencing effects: how our boss, the government, the police, the bank, or our telephone or cable provider induces us to behave in a certain way, to do certain things, or to quit doing others. And yet we often seek power, sometimes in very self-conscious ways. — Moises Naim

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously. — Matt Gonzalez

Plus he'd been raised on a farm, or near a farm anyways, and anybody raised on a farm knew you had to do what you had to do in terms of sick animals or extra animals - the pup being not sick, just extra. — George Saunders

I fear that I am not made for rough touch — Sai Marie Johnson