All Quotes

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

For the life of me, I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite, in those holes and detonate that dynamite and seal that - seal that leak. And seal it permanently.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

For the life of me, I cannot understand Clinton and her proposed across-the-board tax hikes on individuals, businesses and investors. I cannot fathom her plans for increased regulatory burdens, which include more government-run healthcare and a halt to the fossil-fuel energy boom.
‐‐ Lawrence Kudlow

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
‐‐ Dianne Feinstein

For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.
‐‐ Pia Toscano

For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

For 'The Lobster Kings,' I listened to a lot of Johnny Cash. And it makes its way into the book.
‐‐ Alexi Zentner

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.
‐‐ Michael Symon

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
‐‐ James Mercer

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
‐‐ Zedd

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
‐‐ Daniel Johnston

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'
‐‐ Allyn Rachel

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.
‐‐ Jacqueline Emerson

For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
‐‐ Bipasha Basu

For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.
‐‐ Clay Matthews III

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
‐‐ Gero Miesenbock

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.
‐‐ Christopher Poole

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.
‐‐ David Letterman

For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.
‐‐ Georg Stanford Brown

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
‐‐ George Gissing

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

For the men, they are more of a risk taker, and for the women, they are more nurturing and more details. So the combination of the men and women is very good for business.
‐‐ Teresita Sy-Coson

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people.
‐‐ James Lankford

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
‐‐ Edwin Way Teale

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
‐‐ Quintilian

For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over.
‐‐ Glen Duncan

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
‐‐ Polybius

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.
‐‐ James Gleick

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
‐‐ John Burns

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.
‐‐ Cheryl James

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
‐‐ Demi Moore

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
‐‐ Hermann Maier

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'
‐‐ Douglas Booth

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
‐‐ Paul Graham

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
‐‐ Ellen Willis

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.
‐‐ John Eldredge