Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Walker Percy

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Vincent Bugliosi

The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

Robertson Davies

Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?

William Least Heat-Moon

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Wilhelm Reich

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

Winston Churchill

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Milan Kundera

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Jim Moran

It is premature, we don't have enough information and . . . it may turn out to be unnecessary.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any specific information on these images.

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.

Sam Walton

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

Vladimir Nabokov

All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.

William O. Douglas

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

David Trimble

Recovery would be very simple -- let the prime minister put the information he has in the public domain,

Kimberly Caughey

If you're going to only own one stock that represents all of information technology spending, it's pretty much IBM.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Himanshu Patel

The market is likely to be reassured that management is now putting firmer parameters around 2006 performance.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Georgeanne Bender

There will always be people who line up in the middle of the night for those specials, but it's much better to offer people a coupon that allows them, say, 50 percent off on any one item. That way they're much more likely to come in.

Richard Murray

There's a real chance, it's not the most likely chance, but there's a real possibility that that's the way the race could play out.

Trip Adler

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Raghuram Rajan

As a result, the oil price-induced imbalances are likely to be with us for some time.

Karl Case

Prices aren't likely to go up from here.