Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Gary Mickelson

It does not currently help us in cases of identity fraud when an individual assumes someone else's name by using their Social Security number. We believe companies should not be placed in the role of policing who has proper work documentation.

Tim Russert

Those who could not get out were the poor, who rely on public buses to get out! Your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster - if you knew a hurricane three storm was coming, why were buses, trains, planes ... provided on Friday, Saturday, Sunday to evacuate people before the storm?

Sathya Baba

From the narrow vision of 'individual need', man must voyage out into the broad vision of the 'Universal'. When a drop of water falls into the Ocean, it loses its narrow individuality, its name and form, and assumes the form, name and taste of the Ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a 'drop', it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence.

Leslie Ballin

It certainly assumes a fact and that is that she is responsible.

Jaime Pressly

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

Neil Parker

I do not think stocks should have a bid premium built into them. That assumes that there is a good reason to buy them.

Patch Adams

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.

Rig Veda

When a person does great work he assumes a coveted place in the hearts of all and he becomes great. He becomes successful in slaying all the enemies on basis of the efforts and the support of his fellow-beings.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Joe Biden

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Daniel Craig

We can't go fully monty in Bond, Because we can't get the rating.

Magic Johnson

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

Tom Daschle

time bomb. This is going to be $4-to-$5 trillion when it is fully implemented.

Marcia Wieder

Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.

Peter Scolari

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

Ian Shepherdson

Most notable was the leap in the prices-paid index, ... this is simply a reflection of higher oil prices but it may not have been fully anticipated in the markets.

Ricky Stuart

Whether he runs out or not, he'll be out there at some stage, and we'll find out whether he's still recovering or fully recovered from that shoulder problem.

William Ackman

I think McDonald's is doing the right thing and we fully support it.

William Lashner

People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.

Arlen Specter

Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts.

Mindy Grossman

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

Mike Hall

We judge ourselves on defense, not how we shoot the ball.

Dean Barkley

You just keep doing what they're doing and people can judge for themselves who is the true independent.

Stacey Koerner

I think Judge Judy is, like Oprah, sort of the star of her genre.

Kate Reed

I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

Rodney Lovell

Judge yourself fairly. Sentence yourself lightly. Pardon yourself often.

David Frum

Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.

Steve Young

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Jim Bunning

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Laura Bush

Roberts' nomination was the result of surprise, not consultation,

Jerry Seinfeld

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

Charles Krauthammer

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

Michael Caine

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

Howard Dean

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

Frankie Muniz

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

Will Arnett

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Raymond Queneau

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Tubby Goodwin

The ANC is in the weakest position it's been in a while. So there's a little uncertainty and a little profit taking.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Tom Brandt

I think Jens is sitting in position where he should ski in the top 30 in the state.

Wayne Oakes

We aren't in a position to be able to comment,

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Eric Schmidt

We are in the strongest position that we have ever been.

Linda Hargrove

I think she could have an MVP season. She is in a position where all she has to do is go out and play. She doesn't have to be the leader.

Rod Graves

It does not preclude us from taking a look at the quarterback position in the draft.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Bill Budge

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Bill Bryson

Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Robert Rennie

I'd be surprised if the BOJ raises rates at all this year and that is something that will tend to see the yen underperforming.

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Alan Dershowitz

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

Anne McCaffrey

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

James Hillman

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

Kate Christensen

I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

Frank McDonald

You're working, but we're not getting as many raises as we used to.

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Steve Schneider

You can always get to the decision-maker, but not always on the first, second or third call.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Nedim Pajevic

We had too many turnovers in the second half, and that's what killed us.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Heidi Smith

I wish I was second because me and Dana are 1-2 at heart. But I'll take third.

Mitch Baker

I was two-tenths of a second away from going to state.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Mitch McConnell

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,

Edmond Rostand

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Cal Cochran

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.

R. C. Sproul

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

George Herbert

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

Madeleine L'Engle

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Fred Thompson

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

Werner Heisenberg

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Steve Jobs

We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Antoni Tapies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Bill Vaughan

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

Barry Lopez

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

B. F. Skinner

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

David Brooks

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

David McCullough

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.