When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.;Harlan Coben;forgiveness 24173;To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.;Jose Bergamin;forgiveness 24174;I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.;Mario Batali;forgiveness 24175;One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.;Ian Mcewan;forgiveness 24176;Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.;Jewel;forgiveness 24177;Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.;Billy Ray Cyrus;forgiveness 24178;On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.;Laura Schlessinger;forgiveness 24179;The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.;Joe Nichols;forgiveness 24180;As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.;Joan Baez;forgiveness 24181;I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.;T. D. Jakes;forgiveness 24182;I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.;Sherri Shepherd;forgiveness 24183;I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.;John Rowland;forgiveness 24184;God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility and I do.;Jim Bakker;forgiveness 24185;Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.;Nancy Grace;forgiveness 24186;Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.;Jennifer O'Neill;forgiveness 24187;Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.;Dar Williams;forgiveness 24188;There is no forgiveness in nature.;Ugo Betti;forgiveness 24189;I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.;Jayson Blair;forgiveness 24190;I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.;Kate Atkinson;forgiveness 24191;China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.;Virginia Foxx;forgiveness 24192;The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.;Cheryl Hines;forgiveness 24193;I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.;Lee Tergesen;forgiveness 24194;I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.;Julian Clary;forgiveness 24195;I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.;Jean-Francois Cope;forgiveness 24196;I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.;William P. Leahy;forgiveness 24197;I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.;Scott Stapp;forgiveness 24198;I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.;William Brewster;forgiveness 24199;These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.;Norm Dicks;forgiveness 24200;The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.;Robert Rainy;forgiveness 24201;I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.;Sue Monk Kidd;forgiveness 24202;One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.;Louis-Ferdinand Celine;forgiveness 24203;And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.;John Rowland;forgiveness 24204;I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.;William P. Young;forgiveness 24205;Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.;Mackenzie Phillips;forgiveness 24206;And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.;Joseph J. Ellis;forgiveness 24207;Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.;Nick Wechsler;forgiveness 24208;I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!;Susan Smith;forgiveness 24209;Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.;Ronald Reagan;freedom 24210;For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24211;If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.;Dwight D. Eisenhower;freedom 24212;I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.;Robert A. Heinlein;freedom 24213;Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.;Mahatma Gandhi;freedom 24214;The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;freedom 24215;Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.;Albert Camus;freedom 24216;People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.;Soren Kierkegaard;freedom 24217;You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.;Robert Frost;freedom 24218;Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.;Jean-Paul Sartre;freedom 24219;The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.;Franklin D. Roosevelt;freedom 24220;The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.;Angelina Jolie;freedom 24221;We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.;H. L. Mencken;freedom 24222;Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.;John Adams;freedom 24223;Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.;Patrick Henry;freedom 24224;Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.;Mike Tyson;freedom 24225;Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.;Epictetus;freedom 24226;For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.;Alice Walker;freedom 24227;The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.;John Stuart Mill;freedom 24228;Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.;Marcus Tullius Cicero;freedom 24229;I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.;Nikos Kazantzakis;freedom 24230;As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.;Marcel Proust;freedom 24231;Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.;Coretta Scott King;freedom 24232;Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.;Pericles;freedom 24233;There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free to do what he ought.;Charles Kingsley;freedom 24234;Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.;David Herbert Lawrence;freedom 24235;I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.;Jimmy Wales;freedom 24236;We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.;George W. Bush;freedom 24237;None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.;Pearl S. Buck;freedom 24238;All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.;Samuel Johnson;freedom 24239;What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.;Salman Rushdie;freedom 24240;May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.;Peter Marshall;freedom 24241;Freedom is the only law which genius knows.;James Russell Lowell;freedom 24242;You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.;Clarence Darrow;freedom 24243;Freedom is from within.;Frank Lloyd Wright;freedom 24244;We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.;William Glasser;freedom 24245;Freedom rings where opinions clash.;Adlai E. Stevenson;freedom 24246;As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.;Arnold J. Toynbee;freedom 24247;Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.;Vernon Howard;freedom 24248;In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.;Peter Ustinov;freedom 24249;I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.;Dan Quayle;freedom 24250;Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.;William Lloyd Garrison;freedom 24251;I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.;Stockwell Day;freedom 24252;Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.;Frank Herbert;freedom 24253;You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.;Tertullian;freedom 24254;Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.;Moshe Dayan;freedom 24255;Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.;Baruch Spinoza;freedom 24256;We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.;Glenn Beck;freedom 24257;Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.;Anna Quindlen;freedom 24258;'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.;Dag Hammarskjold;freedom 24259;Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.;Brad Thor;freedom 24260;Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.;Graham Greene;freedom 24261;We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.;Herbert Spencer;freedom 24262;Freedom is the recognition of necessity.;Friedrich Engels;freedom 24263;There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.;Walter Cronkite;freedom 24264;The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.;William O. Douglas;freedom 24265;When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.;Charles Evans Hughes;freedom 24266;I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.;George Soros;freedom 24267;Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.;Bill Owens;freedom 24268;Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.;Warren E. Burger;freedom 24269;I need this wild life, this freedom.;Zane Grey;freedom 24270;Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.;Trent Lott;freedom 24271;Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.;Felix Frankfurter;freedom 24272;Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.;Robert McNamara;freedom 24273;Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.;Archibald MacLeish;freedom 24274;Human beings crave freedom at their core.;John Ensign;freedom 24275;The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.;Silvio Berlusconi;freedom 24276;We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.;George Allen;freedom 24277;The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.;Elizabeth Dole;freedom 24278;Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.;Jim Morrison;freedom 24279;Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;freedom 24280;Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.;Ronald Reagan;freedom 24281;A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.;Jim Morrison;freedom 24282;Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.;Jim Morrison;freedom 24283;If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.;George Washington;freedom 24284;Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;freedom 24285;All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.;Winston Churchill;freedom 24286;Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.;Thomas Jefferson;freedom 24287;Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.;Viktor E. Frankl;freedom 24288;Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.;Abraham Lincoln;freedom 24289;The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;freedom 24290;The best road to progress is freedom's road.;John F. Kennedy;freedom 24291;Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.;Eleanor Roosevelt;freedom 24292;The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.;John F. Kennedy;freedom 24293;Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.;John F. Kennedy;freedom 24294;It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.;Mark Twain;freedom 24295;Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.;Kevyn Aucoin;freedom 24296;Freedom lies in being bold.;Robert Frost;freedom 24297;In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.;Abraham Lincoln;freedom 24298;Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.;John F. Kennedy;freedom 24299;The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.;Jim Morrison;freedom 24300;Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.;George Orwell;freedom 24301;True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.;Franklin D. Roosevelt;freedom 24302;China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.;Dalai Lama;freedom 24303;Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.;Kurt Cobain;freedom 24304;It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.;Samuel Adams;freedom 24305;There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24306;Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.;George Washington Carver;freedom 24307;In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.;John F. Kennedy;freedom 24308;Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.;Malcolm X;freedom 24309;Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?;Mahatma Gandhi;freedom 24310;Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.;Sigmund Freud;freedom 24311;I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.;Marilyn Monroe;freedom 24312;Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.;Mahatma Gandhi;freedom 24313;The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.;John F. Kennedy;freedom 24314;I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.;Jim Morrison;freedom 24315;If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.;Noam Chomsky;freedom 24316;I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.;Frederick Douglass;freedom 24317;A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.;Bob Dylan;freedom 24318;I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.;Jim Morrison;freedom 24319;We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.;John F. Kennedy;freedom 24320;I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.;James Madison;freedom 24321;War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.;George Orwell;freedom 24322;Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.;Alexis de Tocqueville;freedom 24323;Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.;Stephen Covey;freedom 24324;It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.;Benjamin Britten;freedom 24325;The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;freedom 24326;Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.;Wayne Dyer;freedom 24327;What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.;Thomas Sowell;freedom 24328;Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24329;Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?;George Carlin;freedom 24330;I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.;Eminem;freedom 24331;Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.;Friedrich Nietzsche;freedom 24332;Responsibility is the price of freedom.;Elbert Hubbard;freedom 24333;A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.;Albert Camus;freedom 24334;A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.;Frank Lloyd Wright;freedom 24335;Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24336;The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.;Billy Graham;freedom 24337;Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24338;If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.;Robert Frost;freedom 24339;The only certain freedom's in departure.;Robert Frost;freedom 24340;I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.;Ron Paul;freedom 24341;Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24342;Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.;Albert Camus;freedom 24343;I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.;Bob Dylan;freedom 24344;Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.;Elbert Hubbard;freedom 24345;Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.;Mitt Romney;freedom 24346;I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.;Malcolm X;freedom 24347;Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.;Albert Camus;freedom 24348;Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.;Albert Camus;freedom 24349;Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24350;There is no such thing as part freedom.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24351;We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.;Barack Obama;freedom 24352;Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.;Theodore Roosevelt;freedom 24353;You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.;Robert A. Heinlein;freedom 24354;I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.;Brad Thor;freedom 24355;The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.;Samuel Adams;freedom 24356;Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.;Nelson Mandela;freedom 24357;Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.;Friedrich Schiller;freedom 24358;Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.;Pope John Paul II;freedom 24359;This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe;freedom 24360;Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.;Oprah Winfrey;freedom 24361;If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.;Malcolm X;freedom 24362;When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.;Pope John Paul II;freedom 24363;There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.;Ron Paul;freedom 24364;I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.;Johnny Depp;freedom 24365;If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.;Leo Buscaglia;freedom 24366;I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.;Simone de Beauvoir;freedom 24367;How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.;Soren Kierkegaard;freedom 24368;For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.;Barack Obama;freedom 24369;You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.;Malcolm X;freedom 24370;The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.;Oliver Tambo;freedom 24371;Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.;Thomas Paine;freedom 24372;Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.;Rabindranath Tagore;freedom 24373;Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.;Karl Marx;freedom 24374;We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.;Mitt Romney;freedom 24375;He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe;freedom 24376;Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.;Bill Maher;freedom 24377;Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.;Mitt Romney;freedom 24378;Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.;Thomas Sowell;freedom 24379;If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is wait

Mitt Romney

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

America, to me, is freedom.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'

The precondition to freedom is security.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A &amp M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs it was about sexual freedom.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Freedom is such a gift.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

The American dream is about freedom.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Our forefathers got it they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker something that's truly about freedom.

They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have it is about those who gave it to us.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Money equals freedom.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

True friends stab you in the front.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

He who hath many friends hath none.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Friends are born, not made.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Love is a friendship set to music.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Opposition is true friendship.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Love is friendship set on fire.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

I never said most of the things I said.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

I like children - fried.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

All men are equal before fish.

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

My life needs editing.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Be obscure clearly.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Never fight an inanimate object.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Never floss with a stranger.

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

I like marriage. The idea.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Communism is like one big phone company.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

I rant, therefore I am.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Never put a sock in a toaster.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

I cannot sing, dance or act what else would I be but a talk show host.

I think serial monogamy says it all.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

I don't mean to be funny.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

It's a funny old world.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.;Steve Martin;funny 25997;You need to be silly to be funny.;William Shatner;funny 25998;You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.;Rush Limbaugh;funny 25999;In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.;Rosie Perez;funny 26000;I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.;Taylor Swift;funny 26001;Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.;Adam Sandler;funny 26002;I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.;Leonardo DiCaprio;funny 26003;I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.;Jerry Seinfeld;funny 26004;Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.;Jennifer Aniston;funny 26005;The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.;J. K. Rowling;funny 26006;I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.;Megan Fox;funny 26007;It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.;Edward Hopper;funny 26008;I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.;Jennifer Aniston;funny 26009;You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.;Lily Tomlin;funny 26010;It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.;Gertrude Stein;funny 26011;That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.;Jennifer Aniston;funny 26012;I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.;Jennifer Aniston;funny 26013;My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.;Jennifer Aniston;funny 26014;Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.;Joan Rivers;funny 26015;Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.;John Krasinski;funny 26016;Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.;Stevie Wonder;funny 26017;If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.;Tom Hiddleston;funny 26018;Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.;Wavy Gravy;funny 26019;Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.;Chris Rock;funny 26020;Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.;Justin Bieber;funny 26021;Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.;Denis Leary;funny 26022;Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.;Demetri Martin;funny 26023;I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.;Demetri Martin;funny 26024;I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.;Demetri Martin;funny 26025;The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.;Demetri Martin;funny 26026;It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.;Adlai E. Stevenson;funny 26027;I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.;Shaun White;funny 26028;I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.;Karl Lagerfeld;funny 26029;One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.;Zac Efron;funny 26030;The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.;Joan Jett;funny 26031;A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.;Billy Corgan;funny 26032;Hollywood's just not funny.;Chris Rock;funny 26033;Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.;Chris Rock;funny 26034;It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.;Jeff Bridges;funny 26035;Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.;Jeff Bridges;funny 26036;The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.;Drew Barrymore;funny 26037;If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.;Larry David;funny 26038;I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.;Gertrude Stein;funny 26039;I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.;Petra Nemcova;funny 26040;It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.;Julia Roberts;funny 26041;It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.;Craig Bruce;funny 26042;If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.;Billy Wilder;funny 26043;I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.;Larry David;funny 26044;It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.;Satchel Paige;funny 26045;As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.;Joseph Gordon-Levitt;funny 26046;What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.;Susan Orlean;funny 26047;I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.;Daniel Radcliffe;funny 26048;Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.;Michael Caine;funny 26049;Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.;Tom Hiddleston;funny 26050;I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.;Megan Fox;funny 26051;The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

I don't think I'm funny.

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

It's funny to be a critic.

I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.;Adam Lambert;funny 26101;The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.;George Saunders;funny 26102;A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.;Jennifer Lopez;funny 26103;There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.;Christopher Walken;funny 26104;Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?;Christopher Walken;funny 26105;I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.;Christopher Walken;funny 26106;I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.;Jenny McCarthy;funny 26107;Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.;Johnny Vegas;funny 26108;The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

I thought I was funny as a kid.

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

I grew up in a funny way.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.

It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.

Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.

It's funny because it's funny.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

I don't just try to be funny.

It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.

Funny is funny.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.;Katey Sagal;funny 26270;My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.;Ian Hislop;funny 26271;I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.;Dave Chappelle;funny 26272;It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.;Dave Grohl;funny 26273;It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.;Corey Feldman;funny 26274;It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike.;Emma Roberts;funny 26275;I don't really have a type of guy I like. It's just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.;Emma Roberts;funny 26276;But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.;Robert Downey, Jr.;funny 26277;I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.;Rachael Ray;funny 26278;And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.;Drew Brees;funny 26279;I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.;Rainn Wilson;funny 26280;We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.;Matt Groening;funny 26281;Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.;Matt Groening;funny 26282;I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.;Dane Cook;funny 26283;I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.;Jimmy Carr;funny 26284;Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.;Lee Trevino;funny 26285;Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.;Thom Yorke;funny 26286;We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.;David Walliams;funny 26287;I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.;Andy Cohen;funny 26288;I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.;Frank Carson;funny 26289;It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.;Michael Haneke;funny 26290;'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.;Michael Haneke;funny 26291;When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.;Michael Haneke;funny 26292;I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.;Paul Feig;funny 26293;For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.;Paul Feig;funny 26294;I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

See, I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them.

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

Funny is an attitude.

My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.;Jonah Hill;funny 26360;I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.;Albert Brooks;funny 26361;Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.;Albert Brooks;funny 26362;I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.;Albert Brooks;funny 26363;I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.;Mayim Bialik;funny 26364;I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!;Wesley Snipes;funny 26365;It's funny how most activists are pacifists.;Craig Bruce;funny 26366;I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!;Leslie Nielsen;funny 26367;So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.;Emily Mortimer;funny 26368;If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.;Olivia Munn;funny 26369;Funny is funny is funny.;Bob Newhart;funny 26370;I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.;Bob Newhart;funny 26371;You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

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.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't.

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.

I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'

Everybody's funny if you love them.

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

I had a very funny family.

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.

I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

It is funny what a year can do.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.

Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.;Colin Hanks;funny 26607;There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.;Dave Navarro;funny 26608;And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.;Fran Drescher;funny 26609;I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.;Stephen Dorff;funny 26610;The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.;Seal;funny 26611;This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.;Charisma Carpenter;funny 26612;I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.;Seal;funny 26613;A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows?;Stephen Moyer;funny 26614;And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.;James Denton;funny 26615;It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.;Stephen Moyer;funny 26616;Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.;Sarah Silverman;funny 26617;The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.;James Denton;funny 26618;But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.;Sarah Silverman;funny 26619;It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?;Josh Gad;funny 26620;I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.;Sarah Silverman;funny 26621;It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.;Josh Gad;funny 26622;I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.;Jennifer Ellison;funny 26623;I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.;Angela Kinsey;funny 26624;My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.;Jeff Ross;funny 26625;Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.;Nicholson Baker;funny 26626;I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.;Jennifer Weiner;funny 26627;Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.;Jeff Ross;funny 26628;Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.;Tucker Carlson;funny 26629;I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.;Jeff Ross;funny 26630;My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.;Emma Stone;funny 26631;It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.;Ashley Judd;funny 26632;People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.;Sally Hawkins;funny 26633;So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.;Piper Perabo;funny 26634;When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.;Shirin Ebadi;funny 26635;I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.;Wanda Sykes;funny 26636;It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.;Artie Lange;funny 26637;But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.;Wanda Sykes;funny 26638;The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.;Joey Lauren Adams;funny 26639;The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.;Winston Churchill;future 26640;Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.;Oscar Wilde;future 26641;Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.;Steve Jobs;future 26642;I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.;Albert Einstein;future 26643;It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.;William Shakespeare;future 26644;The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.;Albert Einstein;future 26645;You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.;Steve Jobs;future 26646;The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.;Albert Ellis;future 26647;If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.;Winston Churchill;future 26648;Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.;Jim Rohn;future 26649;Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.;Bob Marley;future 26650;I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.;Mahatma Gandhi;future 26651;In this bright future you can't forget your past.;Bob Marley;future 26652;Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.;Malcolm X;future 26653;For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.;John F. Kennedy;future 26654;Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.;Wayne Dyer;future 26655;It looks like the future's really bright.;Michael P. Anderson;future 26656;I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.;Leo Buscaglia;future 26657;The future starts today, not tomorrow.;Pope John Paul II;future 26658;What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.;Sai Baba;future 26659;Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.;William Jennings Bryan;future 26660;Study the past, if you would divine the future.;Confucius;future 26661;Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.;George Orwell;future 26662;I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.;Bob Dylan;future 26663;I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.;Charlie Sheen;future 26664;Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.;William Wordsworth;future 26665;A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.;Denis Waitley;future 26666;God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.;Joel Osteen;future 26667;The future ain't what it used to be.;Yogi Berra;future 26668;There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.;George Carlin;future 26669;Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.;Henri Frederic Amiel;future 26670;Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.;Marcus Aurelius;future 26671;I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.;Patrick Henry;future 26672;Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.;Nelson Mandela;future 26673;On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.;Barack Obama;future 26674;The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.;Bill Cosby;future 26675;No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.;Alan Watts;future 26676;The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.;Gustave Flaubert;future 26677;The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.;Bill Cosby;future 26678;Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.;Coco Chanel;future 26679;If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.;William James;future 26680;The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.;Barack Obama;future 26681;Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.;Ayn Rand;future 26682;Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.;Arnold H. Glasow;future 26683;As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.;Denis Waitley;future 26684;Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.;Bob Dylan;future 26685;The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.;Malcolm X;future 26686;Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.;Niels Bohr;future 26687;Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.;Marcus Aurelius;future 26688;It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.;Robert Kennedy;future 26689;The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.;Marcel Pagnol;future 26690;The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.;Dietrich Bonhoeffer;future 26691;A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.;Jean de La Fontaine;future 26692;Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.;Thomas S. Monson;future 26693;I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.;Ray Bradbury;future 26694;I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

I touch the future. I teach.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

The future is always beginning now.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

My future is righteousness.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

You can never plan the future by the past.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

My business is to prevent the future.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas bring me big ideas to match our future.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

The future is purchased by the present.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Evolution never looks to the future.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.

In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.

The future is today.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.