Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

Ashton Kutcher

Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.

Bill Vaughan

Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.

Bill Bradley

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

Bertrand Russell

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Anthony Romero

The American military indefinitely detains individuals -- and tortures some of them -- and the Senate votes to strip them of their rights,

Oliver North

I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

William Shakespeare

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

Chuck Zito

One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

Bonnie Bassler

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

Carl Sagan

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Bill Bryson

Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

John Gearhart

We could have made tremendous progress in getting these cells toward clinical application if federal funding had been available.

Peter Nygard

I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.

Jesse Pichel

Micro fuel cells are years away from commercial deployment, but considerable R&D is underway funded in part by the military to power portable communications equipment in the field.

Ravi Chandra

We can pattern a surface with single-stranded DNA containing a specific nucleotide sequence, then coat cells with single-stranded DNA that contains a complementary sequence.

Austin Smith

We're already talking with the bio-technology and bio-pharmaceutical companies about taking these cells into screening systems for new drugs. Hopefully that will come to pass within two to three years.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Carrie Underwood

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Carl Sagan

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Patricia Marx

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

Theodore White

To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Brandon Roy

I don't think it's a big secret that he'll be leaving.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.