Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love.

Bruce Jenner

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman

George Washington

used solely for the purpose of encouraging American genius.

Andy Goldsworthy

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Ann Curry

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

Alexander John Ellis

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Alexander Hamilton

To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.

Keith Andrews

Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. This was rejected by the trade union which prevented them from endorsing or accepting the rest of the offer.

Alando Tucker

They are accepting it. We know what we have and we just have to work from there.

Bobby Miller

The word adult is misleading. It's a word used to describe one who is legally responsible for his or her actions. That's it. It doesn't in anyway confer or guarantee that a person, while gladly accepting the perks afforded adults, will accept any responsibility.

George Eliot

. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .

Kirk Hanson

There wouldn't even be a question if this school had done this based on the color of their skin. Once the school started accepting tuition money they became a business. Simple as that.

Jerry Bernstein

This is a significant, significant issue in this case. It is critical that the jury is instructed that the simple accepting of a comp is not a crime.

Donna Pitre

This is the first program offering assistance to Hurricane Rita evacuees. This is a big thing. We will start accepting applications Feb. 1.

Robert G. Allen

This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in return for substantial long-term growth,

Alan Gould

A law that was passed on Aug. 29 indicates we must hold a public hearing prior to accepting unanticipated money if it exceeds $5,000, ... We made the application on June 13 and I went back to see if you (selectmen) had voted at that time to approve and expend the funds but I couldnt find that in the minutes.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Abraham Maslow

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

Stanley Tucci

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

Evan Glodell

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.