All Quotes

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.
‐‐ Mara Brock Akil

A star for every State, and a State for every star.
‐‐ Robert Charles Winthrop

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
‐‐ Harold Prince

A star needs all the rest she can get.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
‐‐ Plato

A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
‐‐ Barbara Ann Radnofsky

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
‐‐ Kwame Nkrumah

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
‐‐ Charles Inglis

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
‐‐ Rene Descartes

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
‐‐ Sophocles

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.
‐‐ Dannel Malloy

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
‐‐ Kurt Huber

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
‐‐ Edmund Barton

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
‐‐ Aristotle

A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.
‐‐ Tracy Reese

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
‐‐ Stanley Baldwin

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
‐‐ Abba Eban

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
‐‐ Richard E. Byrd

A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society. He was a trustee and namesake of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, an upstate New York school dedicated to educating Native-American boys.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
‐‐ George Canning

A steak is a steak, so I tried to experiment with different side dishes, such as truffle croquettes, and unusual condiments, but I learned that people don't want you to change the steakhouse.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

A steak needs fat to taste great.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio

A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!
‐‐ Rita Ora

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
‐‐ Virginia Foxx

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
‐‐ Cullen Hightower

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
‐‐ Nancy Kress

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
‐‐ Jean Giraudoux

A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
‐‐ Claude Pepper

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
‐‐ Gabe Newell

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes.
‐‐ Bryan Cogman

A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.
‐‐ Dito Montiel