Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Ferguson

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Blaise Pascal

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

Thomas Fuller

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

Richard Heber

What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

Thomas Carlyle

For the ''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Alvin Anderson

You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

Richard Wiseman

Over the last five years, there's been a reawakening as we look at things like change blindness (a failure to see large changes in a visual scene) and at the fact that consciousness is a construction and may even be an illusion. Now there's a recognition that magicians are doing something very special.

Thomas Powell

Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and you have all you truly need.

Allison Davis

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Gary Sheffield

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

N. T. Wright

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

Danny Blanchflower

We try to equalize before the other team have scored.

Marlon Devonish

To come back from the World Championships and equal my PB was very, very pleasing,

Alicia Sacramone

I think we could have sent three people to the Olympics and done equally well. We have a lot of great girls in our generation right now.

Floyd Reese

I think all things being equal - speed, size, strength - you're always going to lean toward those players who are more tested,

Mark Richt

Going for the fake punt showed a lot of guts and great execution. You've got to give them credit.

Spencer Stewart

We've been there before. Now, we just have to get past that point. It takes a good game plan, good execution and good preparation. Hopefully, this year we are more prepared to get past that point.

Brian Rafalski

I think some of the execution isn't there. We're looking for too much and making things more difficult.

Sam Altman

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed, and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

John Donne

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Lord Acton

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Robert Niblock

It's obviously a reflection of the programs we have in place and the improvement in our in-store execution -- but don't underestimate the impact of the unseasonably mild weather we had in the fourth quarter.

Brian Gruber

It's a gutsy play, but it's all about execution.

Scott Smith

We want to stay away from penalties and turnovers and not give up big plays on defense. It's going to come down to execution and effort.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Shakeel Syed

His story is indeed a story that needs to come out, and needs to be shared with the world.

Russell Smith

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

Charles J. Shields

On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

Lance Hedquist

In terms of the stance of the payment of the bill, the owner does have to pay the bill, and that's indeed what it'll take to get the water back on.

Zach Hall

This is indeed a day of celebration after what I would say was a long taxi down the runway.

John Peterson

They indeed were prophets. It takes prophets to do what they did.

George Steinbrenner

It was indeed the right thing to do.

David Garrow

I very much think Sandra Day O'Connor will indeed remain a 'real' justice.

Joyce Banda

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Joe Juraszek

I will have them do movements that are specific to their position. I'm not technical enough when it comes to football. That's for the position coaches.

Anton LaVey

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

Rose Schneiderman

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

Richard Rodriguez

Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us.

Vladimir Lenin

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Sally Ride

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Wilhelm Wundt

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

Yochai Benkler

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

Winston Churchill

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Mike Ruddock

I'm gutted he's out for the Six Nations but more gutted for Kevin.

Friedrich Engels

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

Lionel Jospin

I remain attached to my nation.

Lord Byron

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

David Healy

I would say that's the best-ever result we've had,

Chuck Hill

I think that Q4 results will be terrible.

Andrew Johnson

I think that's been a really important, big step in the U.S. having more competitive results internationally.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness is the result of what you do.

Takashi Oya

Results were just as strong as we expected.

Mark Hurd

Results have been inconsistent. The stock has been volatile, if not disappointing.

Gabriel Hortobagyi

Clearly, the results are not evolutionary but revolutionary.

Darren Testa

He was a big surprise. He really stepped up for us.

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He showed up big. He stepped up and did a tremendous job.

Jose Guillen

He's a competitor. He is going to give you what he has. He's always going to battle. Trust me, he's going to step it up for his team. That's what he did when I was there in Oakland.

Jeff Borris

He's always had the weight of the world on his shoulders. But when he steps on the field, he's got tunnel vision.

Frank Beamer

He's a tough kid. I'm disappointed for Jimmy, but if he can't go, it's time for Brandon Frye to step it up.

Dana Smith

I think it's a wonderful step for our department.

Dave Dombrowski

I think it's an important year for the organization. We need to take a step forward.

Robert Garcia

I think you really have stepped it up a notch, and it's been noticed.

Jim Haslett

I was disappointed in the way we tackled. All in all, I thought we took a step backward.

Donald Rumsfeld

I don't think we're going to just stumble over something.