Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Ellen Key

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

Ruth Luban

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

Chris Oynes

The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.

Sung Sohn

The pause in economic growth and the drop in confidence will probably cause the Fed to tighten later rather than sooner. The earliest I can see them tightening is the end of June, and they could quite possibly wait until August.

Conrad Lautenbacher

The pathogens that cause disease have conditions in which they live, just like we do. We have to combine the physical data with what we know in the medical world.

Dave Grohl

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

John C. Calhoun

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

William Godwin

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Richard Whately

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Richard Whately

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Ricky Gervais

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

Henry Chadwick

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Henry Chadwick

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Paul Mellon

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Ciara

I tell myself that water is my medicine and that to stay well, I have to drink a gallon of it every day.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks.

John Salley

I eat a lot of kale, and I drink about half a gallon to a gallon of water a day.

H. Hart

When he painted, he kept paintings which were significant to him. In all these years he's had a gallery ... he's never exhibited (private works).

Rose Rougeau

What I'm hearing is that more and more we are topping the $3 a gallon mark in Texas.

Evan Smith

With this kind of hiccup in refinery capacity, in stretched markets like California, you could see over $4 a gallon in gas.

Jeff Lenard

When gas is $3 a gallon the retailer is responsible for about 4 percent of the cost, but they are getting 100 percent of the abuse.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

Berkeley Breathed

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

John Dawson

You are fining students that have no income,

Gerhard Schr

Merkel's policies would mean minus policies, ... It would be a different society in which solidarity would have no place. There would be less security, less investment in research and development and less income for families.

Lee Price

Most of the population, they are not realizing real income gains.

John McGrath

I think in terms of income for Thunder Ridge and taxes for the county, it would be good.

Tom Gallagher

What I'm proudest of, we've done all this without an income tax.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

John Hollyer

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

Bill Gates

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Aaron Small

Please, somebody pinch me when it's all over.

Laura Osnes

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

Bruce Bochy

Obviously, we'd like to start getting some pinch hits.

Craig Heller

Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up.

Rachel Joyce

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

Bob Livingston

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Jack Phelps

This may start to pinch some consumers' wallets.

Renee James

If you can make it so that I could touch somebody remotely through a wearable because it has haptic feedback - like, I could give a hug and it would touch you or pinch you - that would be killer.

Huston Street

The first time I had to pinch myself was walking into (big-league) spring training,

Donald Rumsfeld

I don't think we're going to just stumble over something.

Mira Leung

That takes off some of the pressure. Other than a little stumble on the (triple) flip, I was very happy.