Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Steel

Historically, the market has tended to exaggerate the impact of hurricanes.

Steven Martin

Some said it was offensive or too exaggerated, but how can you exaggerate the truth?

Henry David Thoreau

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Floyd Abrams

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

Larry Sabato

The only thing we can be sure of is that the party that wins will exaggerate the results, and the party that loses will downplay the results.

Daniel Pinkston

There are incentives for any state to exaggerate an external threat. If people feel insecure and have fear, they want to be protected. Even if you're living under wretched conditions, you think it is better than the alternative.

John Ortberg

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

Jennifer Scott

People come here with a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and they wonder why those tricks are ineffective. They're assigning power to external things: the audience, their appearance. But true power comes from within. You need to live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.

John Savage

You need to make the distinction between external motivation and internal motivation. While the former has short-term effects, the latter is far more important.

Alan Williamson

Geopolitical tensions have helped to support the price, but otherwise the market is lacking any external impetus.

Diogenes

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Javier Solana

Most forms of external support require interaction with the Palestinian administration.

Richard Axel

There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware.

Jeffrey Benjamin

External superiority is the result of internal inferiority.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Marion Nestle

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

John F. Kennedy

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Rod Lache

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Anton LaVey

The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

Russell Crowe

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

Winona Ryder

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.

Yoko Ono

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

Mila Kunis

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

Elle Macpherson

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

Nelson Mandela

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

Neil Strauss

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

Noam Chomsky

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Anthony Ricco

He is living in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere with his Koran, his wife, and his child,

Virender Sehwag

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

William Gibson

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

Paul Simon

If you were to pick a role model on the court, living or dead, what role model or composite role model would it be?

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Gordon Stroh

These are people who are living on the bubble.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

James Ellis

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Roger Gerlach

I just thought every year you were going to go to the state tournament, as if there weren't other teams out there that also want to go.

Virgil

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched

Oliver Goldsmith

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Honore de Balzac

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.