All Quotes

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.
‐‐ Mary Bono

For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.
‐‐ Alfie Allen

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
‐‐ Harriet Ann Jacobs

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.
‐‐ Moby

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.
‐‐ Butch Otter

For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

For years, people have re-dialed when the line was busy. They waited their turn. When I'm put on hold, I always hope that as my revenge, their other call will be someone wanting to sell them something.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.
‐‐ Lukas Foss

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
‐‐ Alex Gibney

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.
‐‐ Lina Wertmuller

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
‐‐ Nat King Cole

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
‐‐ Jane Gardam

For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.
‐‐ Lord Robertson

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
‐‐ Regina Doman

For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.
‐‐ Evan Davis

For years, whenever I'd been travelling and came back to Copenhagen, I'd think: 'People are so stylish.' And it's not any one class. It's everyday life.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
‐‐ Kate Seredy

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
‐‐ Franklin Knight Lane

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
‐‐ Johnny Cash

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
‐‐ Athol Fugard

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing.
‐‐ Jean Dujardin

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
‐‐ Anne Hutchinson

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
‐‐ Elliot Richardson

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
‐‐ Terence

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.
‐‐ Jim Rash

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
‐‐ Donnie Wahlberg

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.
‐‐ Helle Thorning-Schmidt

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!
‐‐ Lulu

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
‐‐ Simon Wiesenthal

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
‐‐ Catherine Drinker Bowen

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.
‐‐ Jason Moore

For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.
‐‐ Gagan Narang

For your information, I would like to ask a question.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
‐‐ Janet Frame

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
‐‐ Luke Evans

For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.
‐‐ Charlie Fink

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
‐‐ Ieyasu Tokugawa