Federally Declared Quotes & Sayings

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover. — Jay Leno

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. — George Jean Nathan

Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent. — Iman

Love is anti-mechanical, anti-materialist: that's why bad love is still good love. It may make us unhappy, but it insists that the mechanical and the material needn't be in charge — Julian Barnes

We can fight Big Industry. — Bobby Scott

Don't, said Laurent, toy with me. I - have not the means to defend against this. — C.S. Pacat

When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn't give me that life. — M.F. Moonzajer

I prefer to stay poor. — Azzedine Alaia

We are supposed to believe [capitalist ideology] was the champion of freedom and prosperity in the epic struggle called the Cold War. If there was such a champion, might it not have been freedom itself, as realized in the institutional forms of democracy? This is not how the story has been told. We are t believe it was an economic system, capitalism, that arrayed its forces against its opposite, communism, and rescued all we hold dear. Yet in the new era ... [capitalism] has shown itself very ready to devour what we hold dear, if the list can be taken to include culture, education, the environment, and the sciences, as well as the peace and well-being of our fellow citizens. — Marilynne Robinson

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and ... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation. — Katherine Jenkins

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. — W.S. Gilbert

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. — Abraham H. Maslow

It turns out, to disrupt someone else's business, you have to add a net new line of business to your own portfolio. This — Geoffrey A. Moore

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. — Michelle Obama