All Quotes

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
‐‐ Mike Stoller

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
‐‐ Patti Smith

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
‐‐ James M. Barrie

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.
‐‐ Robert Reich

We never want to go into a tour and play 15 songs and say 'Enjoy.' We have messages: Number 1, follow your dreams. If I can do it, you can do it. Number 2, give your life to something. We say, 'Volunteer and add seven years to your life.' You can have your own personal ministry. The message we have is 'What do you stand for?'
‐‐ John Tesh

We never want to hear the customer say, 'You have nice sunglasses, but I can't find jeans in my size.'
‐‐ Robert J. Fisher

We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.
‐‐ Arthur Christiansen

We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or the umpires. We never gave any other team credit for being able to play ball, and the result was that we were hard to beat. If I could get my team to be confident, I think we would work our way to the front pretty quickly.
‐‐ Joe Kelley

We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
‐‐ Iman

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
‐‐ Travis Barker

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
‐‐ Abdolkarim Soroush

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
‐‐ Hans Urs von Balthasar

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.
‐‐ Jim Bunning

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.
‐‐ Andreas Schleicher

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.
‐‐ Jud Wilhite

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.
‐‐ Joshua A. Norton

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
‐‐ Bob Ney

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.
‐‐ Ken Mehlman

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
‐‐ Kenneth Burke

We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
‐‐ Shawn Achor

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
‐‐ Bob Schieffer

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
‐‐ Arthur Capper

We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.
‐‐ Niki Lauda

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.
‐‐ Peter Hain

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
‐‐ Stephen Vizinczey

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
‐‐ Jeremy Rifkin

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
‐‐ Ryan Seacrest

We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
‐‐ Zbigniew Brzezinski

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.
‐‐ Karine Vanasse

We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
‐‐ Cary Fowler

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
‐‐ Rupert Everett

We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.
‐‐ Paul Biya

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
‐‐ Richard Curtis

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
‐‐ David Elkind

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants will say: 'You won't believe this, but people were once allowed to hurl a couple of tons of dangerous metal around smashing into each other.'
‐‐ Norman Foster

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'
‐‐ John Burroughs

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
‐‐ John Fiske