Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kate Moss

I take full responsibility for my actions. I also accept that there are various personal issues that I need to address and have started taking the difficult, yet necessary, steps to resolve them. I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co- workers, business associates and others.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

David Shaw

He was a commercial spokesman and a barely adequate actor. That means he needs ... public acceptance, and if he doesn't get public acceptance, he doesn't have much of a future if he wants to make any money.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Seth Shostak

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Nabil Sha'ath

What will break the deadlock is for the Israeli side to really accept the American initiative that we accepted.

Nick Pappas

Henry Morris was the first to come up to me and he said the members have spoken and I accept their decision and we parted on very good terms today.

Jill Taylor

I always wanted to get married in the fall. So we made a compromise.

John Hume

This is about principled compromise, not compromised principles.

Benon Sevan

for a political compromise made to help the economies of American allies.

Bill Lawrence

Other countries don't compromise their principles for other people. We should not compromise.

Stephane Dujarric

The Secretary General emphasizes that compromise and mutual understanding are critical if the parties are to quickly resolve the remaining issues under consideration.

Bryant Gumbel

I've never been exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to being critical of leagues or people in sports, and if this was in any way going to compromise my role as host of 'Real Sports,' then it was probably something we shouldn't enter into, a relationship we shouldn't enter into.

Gernot Erler

The one issue where we differed but hope soon to reach a compromise is over Turkey.

Morgan Tsvangirai

After intense debate and discussion, whereupon the guiding question was whether we compromise with or take on the ZANU-PF dictatorship ... the council resolved to stay out of the ZANU-PF senate project,

Tom Ridge

Sometimes people confuse the notion that you're going to compromise sovereignty with collaboration.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Nick Park

You need to find things like having your actors move 2 inches in a day pretty exciting.

Mike Hill

Every inch of that thing is taken up with electronics, and hydraulics.

Unknown

Love is a thousand miles long but comes in six inch installments.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Jonathan Papelbon

If it was an inch higher, it would have shattered my ankle.

Don Kincaid

Most of the players on this tour are younger and some are just an inch away from playing on the PGA or Nationwide (tours).

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Tyne Daly

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Roselyn Sanchez

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

Roger Mudd

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Vince Gill

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

Jody Allen

In this tournament, we didn't do that. We're not in school during spring break, and we're not in our normal pattern and routine.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Rick Wagoner

These negotiations were done in a positive, cooperative, problem-solving spirit, ... While it may have taken some time to reach this cooperative solution, I think it was time well-spent.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Nancy Frazier

I want to make a statement to other businesses,

Khadijah Rushdan

They have what we want -- the state championship.

Trisha Meili

They wondered was I going to survive? Was I going to come out of the coma? In what state was I going to come out of the coma?

Anton LaVey

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Salmon P. Chase

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

Pat Buchanan

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

Leos Carax

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Islam Karimov

We have not made commitments to make our territory and airspace available,

Thomas Huxley

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Stacy Schiff

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

Scott Weiland

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

Michael Crichton

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

Tom Hayden

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.