Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo LoParo

We are hopeful that the judge will see the merits of our argument.

Alistair Cooke

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Ray Tanner

Drew understands our situation. Most other guys would have been in my office by now. He has an argument for being in there every single day.

Kathy Hall

Even if there was no argument about the need, it's difficult to get people to commit to those huge amounts. There's never going to be enough money.

Ai Weiwei

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

Simon Cole

While we don't know how many fingerprint errors are caught in the lab and then swept under the rug or, worse, how many have still not been caught and may have resulted in a wrongful conviction we clearly need a full evaluation of the errors. The argument that fingerprints are infallible evidence is simply unacceptable.

John Silvia

You can no longer make the argument that there is a lot of excess capacity out there. The bias on inflation is a little bit to the upside and the Fed has to be careful about that.

Adam Adelman

You can make a fair argument that they were undervalued. Some were priced for bankruptcy so it's not that surprising that we've seen this bounce.

Voltaire

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Laura Bush

As a librarian and a lover of literature I believe it's important for Americans to visit the homes of our most loved and renowned writers.

Rob Thomas

The bottom line is these individuals believed him and he was able to portray himself as the type of person who could pull that off.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

Michael Connelly

The bottom line is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And I have to believe from past experience and knowledge that some of the links in Homeland Security are weak. Part of the story in "Lost Light" is about a weak link in the chain.

Teresa Hostetler

The bottom line is, for each count of sexual battery, and I believe he plead guilty to two, carries a maximum of five years per count. This guy could have spent ten years in jail.

Bob Bailey

The bottom line financially is that we believe QED can be a billion dollar a year business for us within five years, and we think that it will be neutral to our earnings this year,

Jenna McCarthy

The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Tim Peters

North Korean women, in particular, are in extreme peril in terms of being snared by human traffickers either to be sold into marriage to a Chinese person or to be pulled into the sex trade.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.

Sung Kang

I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.'

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Robert Holleyman

These discussions are headed in the right direction, and we remain hopeful that the Chinese government will translate these principles into concrete action.

Mandy Chan

There won't be surprises on the upside. The market will be resilient, though profit-taking will continue on Chinese equities.

Lu Xiaowen

Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue.

Nie Haisheng

We're grateful for the deep love and concern by all Chinese people, the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan compatriots.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

Alexander Downer

that there are some people on earth who are so wicked and so evil that nothing can be done but to confront them.

Mike Martz

I do know some of the player issues that we have, and the guys that played well and did not play well. That will be confronted and corrected, and if we have to make a change, we'll make a change.

Brian Greene

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

William Westmoreland

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

Charles B. Rangel

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Lawrence Woodward

Three independent bystanders said Marcus never had a gun in his hand. Marcus admits that those three said something rude to his girlfriend, and he verbally confronted them.

Henry Cabot Lodge

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

Richard DeKaser

extremely overvalued and confront a high risk of a future price correction.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

John Wanous

That's logical because there is no connection, ... They're paid by the hour, not by performance. It's a (union-) negotiated wage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Thomas Merton

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

Susan George

Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Sam Harris

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Thomas Jane

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

George Henry Lewes

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic

Gloria Steinem

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

Robert M. Pirsig

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Jim Hall

Stay plugged in. Maintain the strength of the Chamber.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Peter King

There is a very serious question as to why the records are not going to be maintained on American soil subject to American jurisdiction.

James McHugh

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

Martin O'Malley

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Jane Campion

I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kendall Jenner

I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cardinal Richelieu

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.