Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Branden

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

George Soros

The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.'

Anatole France

The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it

George Osborne

The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest.

David Rice

The actor's comments could conceivably end up getting someone killed. Mr. Cruise's advice was not only dangerous, but also absurd and wrong. It is our hope and prayer that anyone who has been talked out of acquiring life-saving health care by Mr. Cruise reevaluate Mr. Cruise's ill-informed advice and go back to treatment. Life and health are too precious to risk by taking the medical advice of a uneducated movie actor.

Adlai E. Stevenson

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another

Kevin Drew

I thought it was absurd to take all this music. But it's a really honest film.

Marshall Herskovitz

The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.

Charles de Secondat

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

Vitruvius

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

Vladimir Potanin

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

Jonathan Klein

The acquisition is in line with our strategy of acquiring and producing increased amounts of relevant wholly owned imagery.

Jesse Bennett

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Mike Tannenbaum

We have tremendous flexibility in acquiring more players that fit.

Clive McDonnell

Using signaling theory, the conclusion has to be that managers of acquiring companies are using a higher proportion of cash relative to the last M&A cycle, as they believe that there is greater upside relative to downside risk in acquisitions.

Kerry Bailey

Visa's CISP reflects a commitment to information security, intelligent business and superior customer care. We are privileged to earn this recognition from Visa and look forward to continuing to work with acquiring banks, merchants and service providers to enable them to demonstrate compliance with this important information security standard.

Arnie Berman

When stock prices are rising, companies have conviction about stability in the near-term and are more willing to take on the risk of acquiring something,

Juergen Hambrecht

We are committed to our goal of acquiring Engelhard, Engelhard did not provide any information that would prompt us to improve the terms of our current offer.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

William Rose Benet

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

Vonda Shepard

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

Angela Knight

The picture that is emerging is of investors using the online services for their smaller trades, but seeking out expert research and advice when it comes to their larger involvements.

Neymar

I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

Bertrand Russell

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Peter Gregory

The advice we received from Ashley's specialist is that it will take time to derive full benefit from the surgery he underwent in December.

Jane Choc

The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and then once you are established they are more apt to look at your work. Never team up with a writer; they like to team up the artist with a manuscript.

Kara Ratliff

The advice that they've given me has definitely given me an advantage.

Timothy Noah

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.

Imelda May

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

Ian Mckellen

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

Igor Ivanov

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

Zac Goldsmith

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

Wentworth Miller

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

William Kirby

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

Wendy Kopp

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

Vivek Wadhwa

If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Julie Zawisza

We will review the public comments as soon as practicable and, taking those comments into account, decide how to proceed.

Randy Beaulaurier

We've gotten lots of good comments about the copper roof.

Danny Thompson

We've gotten a lot of comments and thanks from parents since we started this part of the program,

Tom Wilson

We've had far more positive comments than negative. The girls look beautiful. They don't look sleazy or cheap.

Mike Thomas

My comments were not in any way specific to the University of Cincinnati.

Michael Driscoll

Microsoft is a tech bellwether. Even though technology has had less impact over the rest of the market than in the past, it's still a huge component of the market. We'll see if Microsoft's comments force people to sell the stock .

Orrin Hatch

Michael Moore is free to denounce every manifestation of American foreign policy; is he not? And we are upholding his right to do so, as ridiculous and inane and asinine as his comments are.

Tim Heekin

You'll see a moderate move off of Greenspan's comments tomorrow. But at this point, it's pretty well anticipated by the market.

Tim Heekin

You'll see a moderate move off of Greenspan's comments tomorrow, ... But at this point, it's pretty well anticipated by the market.

Lorraine McConaghy

That was a great courtesy. In the five-year cruise of the Decatur, this is the only time it happened with a native leader. Definitely a 'wow,'" ()

Jim Kubinski

With the field coming, we got a lot of good teams playing there. I think you're going to have to shoot some good numbers, you're not going to be able to just kind of put it in cruise control. We're going to have to play hard, and we're going to have to play well.

Bill Maher

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Sandra Dials

I was scheduled to go on a cruise in January.

Jonny Lee Miller

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

Todd Walker

I don't think it's a seller's market. I think you wait to see how the rest of this month goes. You cruise into September and you have a better idea. You don't go off selling people now or you are quitting right now. Now is not the time.

Sirio Maccioni

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

Steve Cernak

When history looks back, it'll see the cruise industry as the rebirth of this port.

Brandon Roy

We've got to stop trying to cruise so much. Right now, we're just doing SOME of the things it takes to win.

Yahya Jammeh

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

Harvey Rosenthal

The only reason they're putting them there is that mental health law allows them to.

Barry O'Farrell

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Barack Obama

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Richard Lamm

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Bill Vaughan

The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Ian Mckellen

Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

William Christopher

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

Billy Graham

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Jack Straw

The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected.

Annie Leibovitz

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.

NeNe Leakes

I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.

Nik Wallenda

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Donald Trump

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

Jim Bowden

We could not prove medically that they weren't able to play.

Samuel Butler

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Primus Wheeler

Like the Medical Mall, this would be like no other.

Joseph Volpe

I think it's an opportunity for him to really take the time now, that he has the time, to look at all of his medical needs.

Fred Gordon

He had a variety of other medical problems, so part of the problem is we've been sorting through those medical issues.

John Olerud

I didn't need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

Monica Crowley

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

Eric Kandel

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

Gloria Gaither

I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

C. S. Lewis

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

C. S. Lewis

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

William Shakespeare

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

John Lemme

Live each day as if it's a precious Gift, because it is.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat, there would be nothing sad about time being limited.

Lord of

My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring

Judy Cornett

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Todd Rundgren

On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.

Jody Gravelin

We haven't even talked about winning the league. We just want to play to our potential.

Dan McDonald

We have talked about (going to state) every day this year.

Tim Thompson

When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

John Matessino

I talked to them. They said it's just not true.