All Quotes

For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
‐‐ George W. Bush

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
‐‐ Edwin Markham

For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.
‐‐ Suze Orman

For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.
‐‐ Stuart Scott

For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.
‐‐ Saul Perlmutter

For almost a year, I sporadically made these rather lame video blogs in my dorm. These video blogs were reflective of most video blogs during that time in that they had no real structure and were kind of just all over the place.
‐‐ Ray William Johnson

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
‐‐ Russell Banks

For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription. For 'Two Moons,' which was set in 1877, I think I read just about every day of the 'Washington Evening Star' for that year. For 'Henry and Clara,' I read the 'Albany Evening Journal' of the time.
‐‐ Thomas Mallon

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
‐‐ Ralph Nader

For almost the first year of The Muse's life, I would do 5 to 8 networking events a week. And I don't necessarily think that's the right path for everyone, but I realized that as an entrepreneur, one of my strengths was finding the right people who could help us. I didn't come into startups with any network.
‐‐ Kathryn Minshew

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.
‐‐ Alfred Schnittke

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.
‐‐ Robert Casey

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
‐‐ Frederic William Farrar

For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.
‐‐ John Ensign

For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.
‐‐ Hani Furstenberg

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

For an acquisitive Wall Streeter, the money saved by choosing a practical car can be put toward the cost of some pricier means of mobility - like a plane.
‐‐ Michael Shnayerson

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
‐‐ T. R. Knight

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.
‐‐ Dean Norris

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.
‐‐ Curtis Armstrong

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
‐‐ Simon Baker

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
‐‐ Barry Corbin

For an actress, everything is always fine - you are looked after, you have your trailer, and everything provided. But the crew are the ones out there in the wilds all the time, hours before and after us.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
‐‐ Isabelle Huppert

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
‐‐ Ethel Barrymore

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
‐‐ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.
‐‐ Robert Pinsky

For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.
‐‐ Cyrano de Bergerac

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
‐‐ Cai Guo-Qiang

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.
‐‐ Roger Waters

For an athlete myself, it is especially meaningful for our country to host an Olympics. Every athlete hopes to participate in an Olympics, so I still can't believe the games of dreams is going to take place in Korea.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

For an athlete, there's no time off... until it's over.
‐‐ Terry Bradshaw

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.
‐‐ Peter Welch

For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.
‐‐ Steve Breen

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
‐‐ Adam Johnson

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.
‐‐ Ernst Zundel

For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.
‐‐ Molly Sims