Statement Quotes

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama

Change, History, Government

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald Reagan

Before, Questions, Refuse

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Waiting, Around

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein

Made, Authority, Believed

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.
Mitt Romney

American, Anybody, Clear

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

Opinion, Belief, Absurdity

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James

True, Until, Clear

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell

Women, Men, Him

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
Donald Trump

Good, Living, Looking

Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
Andy Rooney

Year, Attention, Days

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

Simple, Everyone, Fact

I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.
Donald Trump

Win, Said, Lose

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin

Help, Wish, Suffering

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
Jay-Z

Done, America, Leader

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy Carter

Confidence, Lie, Betray

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.
Marilyn Manson

Home, Freedom, Help

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
Lady Gaga

Woman, Themselves, Nobody

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Mason Cooley

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
Charles R. Swindoll

Important, Words, Try

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Women, Policy, Favor

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
Al Gore

Tired, Night, Made

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
Barbara Boxer

Voting, Sure, Republican

Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious. A statement show.
Jerry Saltz

Serious, Show, Once

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
Robert Collier

Mind, True, Thought

Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.
Conan O'Brien

Dating, Old, Her

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
George C. Marshall

Time, Mind, Him

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Arthur Erickson

Spiritual, Space, Physical

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Ezra Pound

Value, Meet, General

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Whole, Often, Fragments

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Spiritual, Islam, Political

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