All Quotes

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
‐‐ Michael Crichton

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.
‐‐ Iyad Allawi

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.
‐‐ Iyad Allawi

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
‐‐ J. T. Walsh

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.
‐‐ Henry Selick

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
‐‐ Marianne Moore

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.
‐‐ Howard Barker

We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it? Clintonworld is a galaxy where personal enrichment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of jarringly familiar characters pad their pockets every which way to Sunday.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
‐‐ Sheena Easton

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.
‐‐ Brian Kilmeade

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
‐‐ Joseph de Maistre

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!
‐‐ Richard Curtis

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.
‐‐ Neal Schon

We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement.
‐‐ Greg Walden

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.
‐‐ Ken Salazar

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
‐‐ Kate Mulgrew

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
‐‐ James Agee

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.
‐‐ Michael Scheuer

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg

We are taught to believe it's bad to be angry, or at least it's not good. That's not the case all throughout the world. People are more open and not embarrassed about it. For instance in Paris, people believe Americans have a really unhealthy relation with anger. They think it's essential to get angry.
‐‐ Koren Zailckas

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
‐‐ River Phoenix

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.
‐‐ Richard Louv

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
‐‐ Muammar al-Gaddafi

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.
‐‐ Nick Lampson

We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
‐‐ Lawrence Clark Powell

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
‐‐ Lawrence Durrell

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.
‐‐ Traian Basescu

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
‐‐ Bill Hicks

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
‐‐ Arthur Peacocke

We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don't test on animals.
‐‐ John Paul DeJoria

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.
‐‐ Anthony Carmona

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
‐‐ Martin Sheen

We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
‐‐ Bootsy Collins

We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.
‐‐ Rick Larsen

We are the greatest experts in the world in criticizing our country, but no one loves his country more than the Israelis. No one.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

We are the hero of our own story.
‐‐ Mary McCarthy

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
‐‐ Amy Tan