Quotes 881 till 900 of 8624.
-
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
-
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
-
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
-
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
-
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
-
Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
-
Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
-
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
-
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
-
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
-
Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
-
Among them, but not of them.
Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III, 113 -
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-
An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.
-
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Source: The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (1970) -
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
-
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
-
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
-
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
All us—but famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 45)
