Famous Quotes & Sayings

China Mieville

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

Sam Schmidt

What he is is a caring, devout Muslim. Please don't view every single suspicious fact as evidence of being part of a conspiracy to murder his fellow Americans.

Liaquat Baloch

It's a conspiracy to introduce Indian culture in Pakistan.

Don Campbell

The suggestion that somehow there's going to be a great conspiracy here is nonsense.

Anthony Lewis

The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

Jeff Hatling

There are a lot of conspiracy theories. One of the misconceptions I have heard is that the Heart of the Triad is an effort to do a giant industrial park. One of the goals (of the meeting) is to dispel any thought that people might have that there is a set agenda. People need to understand that this is a planning process.

John Felmy

The reasons for high gasoline prices are very clear: the high cost of crude and the high cost of manufacturing gasoline. The idea that this is some sort of conspiracy is very unfortunate.

Sean Ross

There's never been a radio conspiracy to foist terrible records on people with our without payola. The records that are getting played into the ground are the ones that are going to get played into the ground anyway.

Tom Matzzie

There's no vast conspiracy to get Congressman Fitzpatrick out of office.

Jerry Doyle

It's a shame people would stoop to this kind of thing. We have to look at these crimes and see if there is anything else we can do.

James Lockyer

This is a familiar problem: people spending years in jail for crimes that didn't happen as a result of erroneous pathology.

Latin Proverb

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love

Hugh Graf

It's not uncommon for these types of scams or crimes around this time of the year.

David Smith

It's a vicious and ugly reminder of anti-gay prejudice. What is unique about hate crimes is that they terrorize the whole community.

Richard Dicker

Despite shortcomings, it was a momentous day for Iraqis. It sends a signal that the days of unlimited impunity for these types of crimes may be winding down.

Li Zhi

The move will help regulators deal with securities crimes more efficiently and help small investors protect their legal rights.

Noam Chomsky

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Brad Smith

These are real crimes that disrupt the lives of real people.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Charles Garfield

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

Beth Orton

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Matthew Pearl

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Rick Wagoner

We're pleased to see the significant progress in our first quarter results and in the implementation of all four elements of our North American turnaround plan.

Jonathan Davis

It's exciting with the new elements there. We knew we wanted to do something different and over the top and not a typical Korn show, so we're doing new things.

Robert Ford

There weren't any dummies in there. There weren't elements to test her, like someone known not to be near the party or involved.

Bob Bowlsby

There were a lot of elements to this. It wasn't just recent results. I've been contemplating looking at this situation real seriously for the last three, four months.

Elizabeth Moon

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

Florence Belcher

After each fashion show, we will also have a fantasy reception in order to showcase the talents of our vendors.

Brandon Sanderson

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Billy Long

There is a real fantasy with the American West. When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

Billy Thornton

There is a real fantasy with the American West, ... When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

Debra Messing

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

John Fogerty

We heard rumors over the years that Fantasy was on the market, but nothing materialized,

George Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Chris Viale

They are shocked by the increases (in monthly payments) they are getting.

Avivah Litan

There will be more security holes. In the end, it increases the risks not decreases them.

Marshall Prentice

Sales are strong, but not at a peak, and price increases are slowing down, especially in the markets that took off first back in 1998 and 1999.

Paul Newsome

Rate increases is one of a number of questions that personal lines companies, like Allstate, will face.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Nigel Evans

There are millions of people out there who don't get inflation-busting increases whatsoever.

Chris Daly

Even the slightest increases in temperature could have serious implications for Pacific Northwest snow and water issues.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Greek proverb

Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have

Tom Harp

For lack of a better term, the Town Site.

Gary Kinne

For lack of a better term, I'm just ready for some closure. This thing has run its course.

Connie Finn

It's sure not for lack of effort, and it's not that it doesn't matter to them. It does. It's just not happening. And I don't know why.

Chris Schott

It is our top pick. I like the lack of patent expirations...They have a portfolio of new products.

Chris Schott

It is our top pick. I like the lack of patent expirations... They have a portfolio of new products.

Gene Klein

They have so much in-house brainpower that the use of so many consultants is time-wasteful, money-wasteful and lacks of sincerity and integrity,

Stephen Porpora

It was a low-volume retreat. It's understandable. There's some profit taking, some lack of news and the ever-present geopolitical insecurity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Natasha Trethewey

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Robert Creeley

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

John Ellis

This is an unusual step for us, but not unprecedented. We feel this is necessary and appropriate.

Justin Ohlemiller

That's why we have the perimeter set up to keep pedestrian traffic out of the area. It's obviously still necessary to protect the public's safety.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Billy Joel

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

Graham Cluley

It really preys on paranoia about the Sasser worm.

Allen Ginsberg

Candor disarms paranoia.

Ray Davies

Paranoia, the destroyer.

Neil Craig

Let's just wait - there's been a lot a paranoia that may not be justified.

Pat Conroy

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

Nikki Cox

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

Jon Ronson

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

Laura Anne Gilman

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

Made Pastika

We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.

Brian Dietz

It's a solution in search of a problem.

J. M. Roberts

They were here. After a while of their searching around and taking pictures, they took the kids.

Aaron Brown

This is about a search for the truth,

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Arkady Volozh

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Suzanne Trevino

We do not specifically read correspondence if it's just a letter. The only way we could read correspondence is if we have a search warrant or have written authorization from the sender or the addressee.

Victoria de los Angeles

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

Nicholas Sparks

So I put out a search for him,

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Simon Schama

A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Marlon Byrd

It's a terrible loss. We had so many chances.

Bob Cook

It was a terrible day, ... We just wanted to get off the course.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charles M. Schulz

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.