Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luke Rhinehart

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

Alison Gopnik

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

Tig Notaro

I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

Mike McCrary

There are so many good restaurants now that it leaves an economic opportunity. When everything goes upscale, you also need a layer of family dining, lower-scale ... This is an upward cycle, where up until three years ago it was a downward cycle in a big way." ()

Richard Bernstein

History suggests that the most powerful factor influencing the profit cycle is pricing power.

Eric Chen

I think the cycle going forward is going to be more muted, or modest. I think 2005 was a good reflection of that.

Victor Lazarovici

We're in the midst of one of the greatest mining cycles we've seen in decades.

Dr. Schwemer

I think we're all sensitive to those changes. We're much more tightly tied to the cycles of the Earth and the universe than we like to admit.

Jim Paulsen

It gives you the sense that maybe this earnings cycle is going to be like the rest, where it starts out like it's going to be terrible and it ends up looking good, ... That's been the pattern for eight quarters.

Peter Watkins

I'd like to get that cycle time to less than six hours,

Dan Watson

Part of the major increase is in supplies because of the uniform cycle that we're in.

Asa Hutchinson

In the '98 cycle the Democrats raised 50 percent of all their money through soft money. We only raised 40 percent of our money through soft money.

Sarah Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

Emily Giffin

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

Kenneth Lieberthal

Everyone else sees the substantive issues. But you spend endless hours working on all the other stuff: Who's going to get invited to the state dinner?

Larry Sabato

It splits his base, and it will be endless trouble for him if it goes forward, and I'm sure he won't let it happen.

John Roberts

that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

John Roberts

I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

Monica Crowley

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

Ken Wilber

Freedom is an endless meeting.

Marcus Aurelius

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

Chris Hill

Kelvin seems a lot more energized now. He finally got his legs back.

Savas Kyriacou

I think it's a day that Toronto has finally lost its innocence. It was a tragic loss and tragic day.

Paul Ryan

It also tells the American people that we're finally getting serious about saving the Social Security surplus for Social Security benefits.

Kevin Kinel

I think its finally getting to the fun time. It's getting to the point to where we'll find if Mat is up to the challenge.

Art Hogan

I think the dollar's recovery has a huge impact on the market, when you look at things like gold, which is getting tattooed today, ... I also think it's important psychologically, like when oil finally peaked in the mid-50's.

Ken Perkins

We've finally got a great February. The first set of numbers indicates that this was a blowout month with the kind of sales gains that we haven't seen in a while.

Daniel Reichart

We are finally starting to see the remnants of some of the oldest objects in the universe.

Charles Pradilla

We are finally starting to come to those stocks that haven't given up ground yet. This is the first time that these stocks that are priced for perfection have shown some imperfections.

David Jones

We are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

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.

Helen Clark

It is important that the Commonwealth does back the principles which it repeatedly says that it stands for; those principles being constitutional law, human rights and democracy,

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.

Jose Saramago

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Joanne Wuensch

I suspect that Johnson & Johnson will be in the market sooner rather than later.

Joanne Wuensch

If you want to step back, yeah, they are mucking up Johnson & Johnson's bid.

Bob Poole

I'm 0-17 in Milford in the regular season in my 17 years of coaching. When you have second and third and no one out, you start thinking that maybe this is the one. But Johnson just shut us down.

Kurt Busch

Jimmie Johnson is putting a whoopin' on everybody!

Muddy Waters

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

John Avery

I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

William Hamilton

Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

Matt Czuchry

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Humpy Wheeler

We are going to remold the track to take some of the meanness out of it.

Glenn Geffner

There are so many variables. These numbers mean nothing when they're announced.

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Frank Lampard

It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.

John Varley

It was nearly as contentious as wolf reintroduction.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Eric Hinske

It really hurt. He nearly took my nipple off.

Olivier Gasnier

This is a very strong report on nearly all fronts.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Jim Bowden

I think you have to plan that he will not be back this year and be pleasantly surprised if he is.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Scott Cowen

I think we have to have a very comprehensive plan to rebuild the city,

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Michael Barrett

There are no plans to do any of this, but we're monitoring the situation closely.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Tony Smith

I did not plan on that when I was preparing my team for the final.

Maurice Cheeks

I just like the way Steven has been playing. At some point, Samuel will be starting. No rush.

James Cronin

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

Zhang Xin

China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary and we had warnings of social unrest. But it did not happen. Instead, there was a restructuring in our economic system. I am not sure if China will follow a Western playbook in this respect.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

Jose Garces

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Marc Pearlman

He didn't even want to talk to us. He was petrified.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Richard Baxter

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

W. L. George

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Saint Augustine

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

Wilkie Collins

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Walter Scott

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

Walter Scott

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Liam Neeson

I think: 'Why do I have to do it? What's it going to prove?' After all, it's the work that counts.