All Quotes

Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.
‐‐ Ma Jun

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
‐‐ Theresa May

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.
‐‐ Dan Savage

Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.
‐‐ Bruce Willis

Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.
‐‐ Mark Pryor

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.
‐‐ Marilu Henner

Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market.
‐‐ Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
‐‐ J. B. Priestley

Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
‐‐ Viet D. Dinh

Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world.
‐‐ Tito Jackson

Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls.
‐‐ Mother Angelica

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Like Jon Voight, Pat Boone, Kelsey Grammer, and Gary Sinise, Clint Howard is one of the few courageous enough to identify himself publicly as a conservative.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
‐‐ Bob Kerrey

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

Like Juan Gabriel and Ana Gabriel, both singers and songwriters of legendary talent, Marco Antonio has reshaped a kind of Mexican romanticism. What he brings to pop music is the kind of songs that really talk to people's hearts.
‐‐ Alicia Villarreal

Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.
‐‐ Stanley A. McChrystal

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.
‐‐ Thorne Smith

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
‐‐ Zainab Salbi

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
‐‐ Sarah Vowell

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.
‐‐ Peter York

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
‐‐ Rachel Hunter

Like love, breakfast is best when made at home.
‐‐ Gina Barreca

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.
‐‐ Serge Schmemann

Like many actors, I'm very grateful, I feel very fortunate, very lucky to be able to make a living with what I do and what I love. I'm surprised and grateful all the time.
‐‐ Gregg Henry

Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes.' I'm the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that - then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in 'The Ring.'
‐‐ Kelly Stables

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.
‐‐ Mercedes McCambridge

Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.
‐‐ Doc Hastings

Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.
‐‐ Ally Carter

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
‐‐ Mario Puzo

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
‐‐ Simon Callow

Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ambitious young woman, Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino Richards Hilton, who had married into the celebrated Hilton Hotel family, was often out and about.
‐‐ Jerry Oppenheimer

Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.
‐‐ Amy Gerstler

Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my children - and my desire to make the world better a better place for them, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.
‐‐ Tom Carper

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,' in that they can't see the multiple colors required to reconstruct a color image of the world. They do, however, have specialized cells that enable them to see ultraviolet wavelengths.
‐‐ Michael Dickinson