Pot has become a government cash crop.
SHELDON HAYES Keep it simple you make less mistakes that way
SHELDON HAYES Love is the foundation of forgiveness.
SHELDON HAYES The heart can never be filled with to much love
SHELDON HAYES Poverty is never self inflicted it is created and orchestrated by the powers that be.
SHELDON HAYES You cannot promote peace while engaging in war.
SHELDON HAYES Television is a distraction device that was developed to deliberately destroy our desire to discover...
SHELDON HAYES The art of war is stratergy and a plan B
SHELDON HAYES Forgiveness is the strongest pain killer.
SHELDON HAYES Economic recovery is impossible when you force the people into poverty and destitution.
SHELDON HAYES Caged birds don't sing if they are not happy
SHELDON HAYES Freedom is not free sacrifice is the ultimate price and death is the final fee.
SHELDON HAYES People who judge others without knowledge of them are shallow and insignificant.
SHELDON HAYES Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expec...
JOSS SHELDON To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
SIDNEY SHELDON I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.
SIDNEY SHELDON Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you ...
SIDNEY SHELDON Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw....
SIDNEY SHELDON All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
SHELDON KOPP In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
SHELDON KOPP You only get to keep what you give away.
SHELDON KOPP Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars ...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
SIDNEY SHELDON If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we ...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to ...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright B...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours...
SIDNEY SHELDON I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first sto...
SIDNEY SHELDON I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so ...
SIDNEY SHELDON The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue....
SIDNEY SHELDON The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive prob...
SIDNEY SHELDON If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I fee...
SIDNEY SHELDON I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
SIDNEY SHELDON There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide wheth...
SIDNEY SHELDON The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public...
SIDNEY SHELDON I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very importan...
SIDNEY SHELDON Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are crea...
SIDNEY SHELDON Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
SIDNEY SHELDON The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpos...
SIDNEY SHELDON What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. An...
SIDNEY SHELDON I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.
SIDNEY SHELDON I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation ...
SIDNEY SHELDON I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations...
SIDNEY SHELDON Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
SIDNEY SHELDON Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberatel...
SIDNEY SHELDON I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
SIDNEY SHELDON Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't...
SIDNEY SHELDON I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping the...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a ...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lu...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
SIDNEY SHELDON My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place -...
SIDNEY SHELDON Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old...
SIDNEY SHELDON Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me...
SIDNEY SHELDON That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a se...
SHELDON VANAUKEN Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I ...
SHELDON VANAUKEN …though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heav...
SHELDON VANAUKEN It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the wo...
SHELDON VANAUKEN The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. Bu...
SHELDON VANAUKEN The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he u...
SHELDON KOPP Donovan is the franchise player here. We built this team around him. We're going to go as far as he ...
SHELDON BROWN Why are there violent cartels in marijuana, cocaine, and heroin but not in whiskey and cigarettes?
SHELDON RICHMAN It's a fairly risky fund, but if you want to buy the stocks of the Nasdaq 100, that's a way to do it...
SHELDON JACOB These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and im...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE They are primitive un-evolved bodies, so by studying these bodies we can learn more about how the so...
SHELDON SCHAFER In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the charact...
SIDNEY SHELDON According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when ...
SHELDON VANAUKEN Between the probable and proved there yawns
A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd,
Then ...
SHELDON VANAUKEN What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.
SHELDON VANAUKEN Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences...
SHELDON VANAUKEN You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or yo...
SIDNEY SHELDON But in the books again, great joy through love seemed always to go hand in hand with frightful pain....
SHELDON VANAUKEN My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a ...
SHELDON VANAUKEN There was something tender and gentle about our love, something a little shy, that was like early sp...
SHELDON VANAUKEN I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beau...
SHELDON VANAUKEN To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.
SHELDON VANAUKEN The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE At this point, it sort of has a life of its own.
AMBER SHELDON I've worked hard to build it, and it just keeps growing.
AMBER SHELDON I support hockey in this region, and I was thinking of a good way to show support.
AMBER SHELDON It's been five years of hardship against these guys, them running up the score on us and what a good...
SHELDON KUHNS A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
SIDNEY SHELDON We're regulating ourselves out of the quiet enjoyment of our community. If we can't find a way to do...
SHELDON THAYER We used to be the little town that could and now we're the little town that won't.
SHELDON THAYER It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly...
SHELDON VANAUKEN I have recently moved away but I am glad to hear the proposals were withdrawn. It was just the wrong...
DAVID SHELDON The economic data over the next several weeks are going to be difficult to interpret, and it'll be i...
MICHAEL SHELDON It’s our self-proclaimed protectors from whom need we protection most.
SHELDON RICHMAN Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.
SIDNEY SHELDON The unlived life is not worth examining.
SHELDON KOPP All of the significant battles are waged within the self
SHELDON KOPP The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and lov...
SHELDON GLUECK He was very dogmatic. He wasn't interested in Ohio State.
JOHN SHELDON Eastman Kodak in its heyday might have paid more, but there are different benefits, including tuitio...
SHELDON STEINBACH Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want...
SIDNEY SHELDON While the term 'clean' is ambiguous, the desired result is one that meets or exceeds the cleanliness...
PETER SHELDON Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified ...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE There's a touch screen where you can assemble snippets into a mini-show. Imagine you go to a jukebox...
SHELDON SCHAFER On 'Jeannie' it said 'Created by Sidney Sheldon, written by Sidney Sheldon.' It was like an ego trip...
SIDNEY SHELDON As I dictate, other characters come in and the story begins to form, and I really talk the story,
SIDNEY SHELDON That was the year every show on the air went to color, except for one, and I found out that Screen G...
SIDNEY SHELDON He didn't see me and probably felt he could connect on the deep slant.
SHELDON BROWN The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its c...
SIDNEY SHELDON When I think of Colonel Crawford it reminds me a lot of the district I grew up in, a rural district ...
DAVID SHELDON If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.
SHELDON VANAUKEN Historically, the three-month period before the Fed goes on hold in the rate hiking cycle, stocks ha...
MICHAEL SHELDON The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very c...
JOSS SHELDON February has historically been a lackluster month for the stock market.
MICHAEL SHELDON I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set f...
JOSS SHELDON Enemy combatants could be affected by this regulation.
SHELDON SMITH Fred was a penny-pinching type of guy so it seemed to fit well.
MIKE SHELDON Sleeping is like eating. It is performing a biological function that is required.
STEPHEN SHELDON It's a shame. It's one thing people look forward to, spreading blankets out next to the same people ...
SHELDON THAYER In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
SHELDON KOPP Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
SHELDON ADELSON If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
SHELDON ADELSON I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.
SHELDON ADELSON I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.
SHELDON ADELSON I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and chan...
SHELDON ADELSON I was sitting with the Prime Minister, and he was making reference to the Mice market. I said: 'Is t...
SHELDON ADELSON For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is g...
SHELDON ADELSON Your future is as bright as the stars the only difference is the stars are going to be in this world...
SHELDON CLIFTON Alfred is taken past this broom, and enters this room; which can only be described as 'piecemeal'. I...
JOSS SHELDON The optimist would say we're in the early stage of a broad rally, the pessimist would say this is a ...
MICHAEL SHELDON He didn't alienate every player. He did talk to some teammates. We all have to drop our egos, period...
SHELDON BROWN The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to m...
SHELDON JACKSON Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. A...
JOSS SHELDON would be controlling
SIDNEY SHELDON His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.
SIDNEY SHELDON A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.
SIDNEY SHELDON A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.” Th...
SIDNEY SHELDON If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.
SIDNEY SHELDON They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murde...
SIDNEY SHELDON Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire...
SIDNEY SHELDON Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation&#...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisi...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE When the central bank came out and said they're going to drain liquidity over a period of months, th...
MICHAEL SHELDON In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to pro...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE I feel that the membership and the staff and volunteers need representation.
DON SHELDON I can't say enough good things about John. I don't know how they are going to replace him, and I thi...
DON SHELDON Those are my friends on that board. They're good people. But I don't understand how they came to the...
DON SHELDON Nothing lasts forever.
SIDNEY SHELDON We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intention...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE We kept coming back. We kept believing. The guys just found me in transition, and I thank God I hit ...
BRYCE SHELDON One thing with this team is we keep believing. Some of the close losses broke our back, but I feel l...
BRYCE SHELDON You do think about it. That's always the goal. We've got four games left. It's in our hands.
BRYCE SHELDON By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.
SHELDON RICHMAN Progressives did not like the antiquated thinking that saw the Constitution as a barrier to governme...
SHELDON RICHMAN Her face lit up; illuminated by the enlightenment of recognition and the innocence of surprise.
JOSS SHELDON I spent an hour getting ready for work, an hour travelling to work, nine hours at work, and an hour ...
JOSS SHELDON An hour seldom passed in which she didn’t either sneeze, pick her nose, or wipe a bogie onto her s...
JOSS SHELDON For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to grea...
JOSS SHELDON I wanted nirvana,” I explained. “I wanted death. I wanted release, any sort of release. And yet ...
JOSS SHELDON I liked all the children in my class. Back then, I think we all just tacitly assumed that we were eq...
JOSS SHELDON I learned how to argue. They called it ‘Debate’. I learned how to worship. I learned how to beco...
JOSS SHELDON The most rebellious thing you can do is get educated. Forget what they told you in school. Get educa...
JOSS SHELDON My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general s...
JOSS SHELDON Being poor is only romantic in books.
SIDNEY SHELDON Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers fo...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE It also came at a time that the networks weren't liberal about what they showed, and the network pan...
SIDNEY SHELDON Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who ...
SHELDON VANAUKEN But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
SIDNEY SHELDON a champion of the homosexual agenda.
LOUIS SHELDON The president has taken a courageous stand in favor of traditional marriage at a moment in American ...
LOUIS SHELDON Homosexuals are attempting to redefine the family and what constitutes marriage, ... And because the...
LOUIS SHELDON This is all tied to Jack? ... I'm shocked out of my socks.
LOUIS SHELDON I'm really proud of our entire team. Everyone competed really well, and it was just impressive.
JUDY SHELDON This is a big first step in helping to provide the LRN labs with FDA cleared assays. The work done a...
JUDY SHELDON I pulled the sheet off their faces. Their faces were black with coal dust and didn't look like anyth...
SHELDON CURRIE Looks like the stock market has gotten off on positive footing after yesterday's broad-based decline...
MICHAEL SHELDON All three major tech stocks that reported after the bell yesterday beat estimates and raised guidanc...
MICHAEL SHELDON That's likely to remain the case until we start to resolve a few of the issues overhanging the marke...
MICHAEL SHELDON The Fed has identified consumer confidence as the most important concept right now. They are extreme...
RUSSELL SHELDON Each manager sees his own division as the center of the world, and that’s as it should be. But som...
SIDNEY SHELDON You may have missed the whole rally, but investors don't know you bought it three days before.
SHELDON JACOBS Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
ISAAC HAYES I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchest...
ISAAC HAYES I love music.
ISAAC HAYES I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
ISAAC HAYES Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
ISAAC HAYES Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. ...
ISAAC HAYES The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tel...
ISAAC HAYES Know the business, learn the business, own something.
ISAAC HAYES All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. ...
ISAAC HAYES I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go ...
ISAAC HAYES I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.
ISAAC HAYES Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because mus...
ISAAC HAYES I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and ever...
ISAAC HAYES I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
ISAAC HAYES There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and ...
ISAAC HAYES I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time...
ISAAC HAYES A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that l...
ISAAC HAYES There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you...
ISAAC HAYES There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how...
ISAAC HAYES Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
ISAAC HAYES Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
ISAAC HAYES I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men...
IRA HAYES