Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by American Authors - Page 16

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

I enjoy wearing fragrance every day and have found myself searching for the one signature scent that truly reflects my personality and the things I love, such as Bulgarian rose. I have always wanted to create a fragrance from its inception to fruition and articulate femininity, confidence, and fortitude.

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is.

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

I'm just doing the only thing I know how to do. There was never a plan B.

If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.

To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.

Just go out and do things, and those things that continue to spark an interest, do more of.

At the end of the day, I'm out of here - above anything.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.

I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.