Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Kendall Coffey

As a general proposition, anything that smacks of manipulating studies or data is a potential bombshell. It's the rare case where a cover-up is of no concern to a jury. The implications range from only somewhat harmful to potentially devastating.

Yoav Gilad

The big question is why are humans so different. What sort of changes in the environment or lifestyle would drive such a rapid shift in the expression of genes - in this case in the liver- in humans and in no other primate?

Xiao Yang

As of July 1, 2006, all the second-instance trials of death sentence cases shall be heard in open court.

Ivan Oelrich

Ready.gov treats a nuclear weapon in this case as if it were a big truck bomb, which it's not,

Richard Blumenthal

reach a preliminary conclusion in the case early next week.

David Baldus

Proof like this would make a prima facie case of systemic discrimination,

Samuel Daniel

Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

John Greene

Other people are going to have to make the case for him. He's not in a position to do it himself.

Gary Williams

Osteoporosis in men is extremely unrecognized. Too many fail to realize that 20 percent of osteoporosis cases in this country are men.

Calvin Klein

These products you can use for different purposes, so you can need fewer products. But once you get to color, it's what you love, it's what feels right, and what you want to experiment with. And that should be fun too.

John Thune

The Obama experiment has failed

Jerry Hollendorfer

That was just an experiment that worked out. We sure weren't thinking about any million-dollar race for him.

Patterson Hood

We're all big Big Star fans and fans of pop and power pop, and we wanted to experiment with those influences a little more than we have in the past.

George Santayana

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

Louis Pasteur

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

Meher Baba

You must make bold experiments in life!

Adam Smith

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

Chuck D.

This whole week we're going to experiment with our lineup. Every player on our team is a starter. We're going to keep working and we'll get better.

Mark Hyman

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

Craig Venter

The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.

Colin Powell

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Billy Donovan

I don't know if we would have played them again, if the outcome would have been any different. They were just a better team than us.

Curt Miller

I think that's what you're going to see down the stretch, that each and every possession is important to the outcome of the game.

Cathy Allinger

If she didn't have that sort of access, the outcomes could have been different as she went through the Games.

John Anderson

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.

Rob Blake

Not good. It's not the outcome any of us wanted by any means.

Katsuya Okada

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

Maria Brous

At this point we're monitoring to see what the outcome will be, and we'll take it from there.

John Devine

As we stand today, we don't know what the outcome is for Delphi, that's their call,

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Dr. Seuss

And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed).

Kristine Fauerbach

And when I have sales I promote them at 50 percent off that price.

Bob Johannessen

We could provide prescriptions, but at 100 percent state expense.

John Scales

We could only get to about 40 percent of the city, ... The remainder is still under water.

Tom Moody

We do not want to risk Chaminda (Vaas) unless he is 100 percent fit.

Brad Schneider

I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.

Helen Sharman

I had been lucky that my physiology is well suited to space training.

Sathya Baba

You are all separate beads strung together on that one thread, God.

Damon Lindelof

Those who survived are separated for the first third of the season.

Brandon Sanderson

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Auguste Rodin

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Ayelet Waldman

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

Brian Tracy

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Brad Goreski

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

Jane Hirshfield

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

Jan Koum

Be simple and reliable

Jamie Farr

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Nicholas Negroponte

I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest,

Steve Ellis

It's a $2.4 trillion budget. There's work for everybody.