Going Quotes

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD.

I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Babies got it going on!

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.