Top 1200 Grand Theft Auto Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think 2017 is going to be the year of the grand return of the nation-state, the control of borders and currencies.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn't expect it at just 19 years old.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

When you win a Grand Prix, it's the culmination of everything coming together. Not just trackside, but behind the scenes.

Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time.

She [Hillary Clinton] and Bill [Clinton] supported the NAFTA, the adoption of NAFTA that sent our jobs overseas, and they both supported Wall Street deregulation, which laid the groundwork for the disappearance of 9 million jobs and the theft of 5 million homes.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

There's a not a single doubt in my mind that the car that changed the conversation about Chrysler was the Grand Cherokee of 2010.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

I really believe that I can be the No 1, but for that to happen, I probably need to win a couple of grand slams, and they are not going to fall from the sky.

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.

I once asked a studio guy in Toronto, "How many people don't use auto tune?" and he said, "You and Nelly Furtado are the only two people who've never used it in here." Even though I'm not into Nelly Furtado, it kind of made me respect her. It's cool that she has some integrity.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.

I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as I graduated, so I was at this sort of crossroads - but it made me apply myself more, because I realized more than anything else what a thin thread we hang on in life, and I really wanted to make something out of my life.

Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.

I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.

I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.

To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

I've tried to learn something from other players and how they are really focused on the Grand Slams. I couldn't do that in the past.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam.

Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are self-righteous a lot are apparently doping themselves rhythmically with auto-secreted surges of dopamine, endorphins and enkephalins. Didn't you ever ask yourself why indignation feels so good?

It's really amazing. Novak, Rafa, Roger, they win couple times a year in a row all the grand slams.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.

I am quite a positive man in real life. In fact, even when I have a hard discussion with somebody, it lasts only five minutes. Then I forget. And I forgive everything. But at the same time, as I am such an easygoing guy, to create something more intense, I have to be auto-destructive on the making of a film. And this will guarantee some density.