Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

David Liss

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

David Lynch

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

David Halberstam

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Corey Clark

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Corita Kent

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.

Shane Carruth

The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

Shane Carruth

I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.

Shane Claiborne

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

Sergei Bubka

And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.

Sepp Blatter

The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.

Michael Pollan

In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you're highlighting this astounding artichoke, it's got to be an astounding artichoke.

Michael Pollan

If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.

Michael Pollan

Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

Michael LeBoeuf

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dorothy Hamill

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

Don Richardson

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Dutch Ruppersberger

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Colleen Hoover

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

Dalai Lama

We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century.