Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom G. Palmer

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.

Douglas Trumbull

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

Kenneth L. Pike

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Auberon Herbert

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

Mark Williams

Everything is so abstract at this point. All that has to be worked out.

Ruth Ginsburg

You are well aware that I come to these proceedings to be judged as a judge. ... It would be wrong for me to say or to preview in this legislative chamber how I would cast my vote on questions the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide. ... Judges in our ... system are bound to decide concrete cases, not abstract issues. ... A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints. ... It would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

Legal Maxim

Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility

Ed Kowalczyk

This song probably has the most memorable melody we've ever recorded. I really like how we're using something so catchy to convey these abstract lyrical ideas I have about songwriting. When I sit down to write a song, I always feel like I'm wading into a river where a nurturing female presence guides me and pushes me along when I need it.

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

David Borenstein

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Lee Konitz

I've played with not such great players, and found that I was inspired to play very well. I welcome every one of those opportunities.

Steve Cropper

I started getting calls to do sessions as a guitarist. I never thought I was that good of a guitarist, though I knew I could hold my own.

Jimmy Carl Black

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

Chico Hamilton

I've changed my drumming considerably. I've had to, in order to play this way, in order to have a fulfilment with regard to the overall sound.

Jewel

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

Trace Adkins

I've been in that situation many times, telling people why country music is important, and this is my chance to stand up for this genre.

Jackie DeShannon

I used to go to tons of foreign films.

Bruce Johnston

Are you telling me, Mr. Jensen, that if Mr. Stevens were to testify that he did, in fact, tell you about that option, that you would say directly that he is lying?

Lisa Alther

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Hunter Tylo

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

Jerry Graybeal

I haven't heard directly from anyone. But I have heard from some of their representatives that they're interested.

Arthur Lewis

The insistence by CBC on the need to be able to hire more temporary workers can be traced directly to the corporation's serious funding shortfall,

Toby Miller

It will save us time to take it directly to the public for a vote.

Tom Ridge

Time will tell if we can directly link him to a specific organization or not,

Lloyd Axworthy

We have called in the Malaysian High Commissioner today to register our consternation directly with governmental authorities over Mr. Anwar's trial and sentencing,

Michael Sutton

We pay people directly for their submissions, and then we also have various programs to reward our loyal contributors and keep them working with us. This is our latest effort to further reward them.

Adan Canto

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jack Myers

Broadcasting is still the engine that drives the train. It's still where marketers want their exposure.

Michael Goodman

What really drives the sales of these things is a breakaway game,

Kyle Orton

Those drives are just demoralizing for a defense,

Bill Valentine

We are in some ways part of that demographic group that drives oversized cars.

Jim Hueber

I think he is really driven. I think it is really important to him to do what he feels like he has to do to be as good as he can be. He wants to do everything right, I think that is what drives him. He doesn't want to make a mistake.

Jeff Jennewein

Whittaker drives so well to the bucket, and then he can pull up and hit that jump shot. He finds a way to slash and slide in there and takes it up strong.

Linda Fisher

I don't mean finding 15 different ways to swing from a chandelier. But novelty in life drives up peoples sense of well being.

Alex Miller

What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing.

Anne Carson

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

Thomas Jefferson

Question boldly even the existence of God.

Victoria Gotti

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

Shakira

If you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

Michael Sheen

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

John Searle

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence begins in every instant.

Galway Kinnell

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

Mike Sivertson

The way to score with our system is to force turnovers and to not give up big plays. That is one of the reasons that the game went the way it did.

Jill Malko

You're not going to keep her to nothing, but you want to keep her to three or below. We have to key in on the other players and force the others to score for them.

Don Shepperd

You must have overwhelming force at the point of contact, ... That can be numbers of troops, superior knowledge, intelligence or firepower.

Randy Roach

We've seen the Gulf of Mexico relocate. The force of nature is something to behold.

David Lloyd

When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.

Mikel Haas

Even if we were to get certified in the next two weeks, we would not put those out there full force until November, November general.

Valerie Taylor

Even though I teach high school, most students aren't ready for the work force when they graduate. Most need to go on to get a better education.

Betty Williams

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

Mason Young

We wanted to come out with full speed and full force.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Lindsey Kildow

As long as I can physically do it, I can suck it up for a minute, 55 seconds.

Daniel Davis

This is a touchy-feely case. This is not an egregious kind of physical contact.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Kofi Annan

and vulnerable to psychological as well as physical insecurities.

Jerry Hayes

We just shut down as a team, ... They got more physical and we shut down.

Tina Turner

Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.

Richard P. Feynman

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Mark McHale

That wasn't physically getting beat. It was a miscommunication deal.

Larry Coker

He put a lot of pressure on, was very physical and I thought he did an outstanding job.