Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold H. Glasow

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Greg Aiello

The arbitrator's decision is consistent with our collective bargaining agreement, and it simply enforced the terms of the player's contract.

Fred Janicke

They offered us a package that mirrored what we already had and a three-year contract agreement. It saved a lot of heartache.

Stewart Brand

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels has left the building.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Rev. Donaldson

I thought somebody had just died, either her mother or my father. When she said the church was on fire, I thought it was probably just the kitchen area. I couldn't conceive that the church building could be gone.

Stu Barnes

I think we were better start to finish. It's a building block.

Rod Graves

I think what it does demonstrate is that we're committed to building a strong nucleus for our football team, and part of that effort is making the right decision about the players you reinvest in. We just consider Kurt Warner part of that process, to reinvest in quality people and quality players.

Mark Rice

It gives us a chance in the building code industry to publicize some things and get people aware.

Noelle Reed

I went from an 800 square foot house on the university campus to a 5,000 square foot building in three years.

Grover Norquist

He is a conviction politician like Ronald Reagan; he's also been a party builder. DeLay always kept his eye on building party and the movement, and that's rare.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Russ McKenzie

Brandon is the picture of hard work and perseverance. Most kids would have quit in his first two years, with the beatings he took in the room. But he didn't.

John Peterson

We had a really hard time shooting today. We just couldn't get them to fall.

Stew Morrill

We had a hard time with La. Tech and trying to rebound the ball. We were able to stay with them on the boards.

Dusty Baker

We had a hard time holding up our end of the bargain.

Curt Fredrickson

We had a hard time getting the big hit when we needed it. Overall, I was very pleased with our pitching and our defense.

Mike Marshall

We had a hard time getting any rhythm. We made a lot of mistakes and we could not get anything going.

Mary LeBlanc

We had a hard life, but we stuck together. We worked together.

Will Blalock

We wanted to take his 3-ball out of the equation. In the second half, he woke up and really played hard for them. That's why they got the win.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Michael Allen

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that? All they needed was a jump-start.

Kathleen Tierney

More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island; there was nowhere to go. They didn't know when help was going to come. Law enforcement was rendered ineffective. They didn't know when they'd see another meal.

Paul Lanclos

I wish he'd stick to the script more. But when you have that type of athlete, nine out of 10 times when he does things like that he's going to help you.

Billy Donovan

I would do whatever I could to help Major Parker. I'd recommend him for another job to anyone. We have all made mistakes in our lives.

Brenda Taylor

If we don't help them, they don't get there. Sometimes you can have bad, scary people stopping here.

Howard Shell

If we don't do something, we're ignoring a problem. We're going to do this to see if we can help the situation. We want to help solve the problem.

Brendan Taman

If the right one's out there to make and we can help ourselves -- more so probably for next year than this year, to be honest with you -- that's what we're going to look at,

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Manly Hall

Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

Luc de Clapiers

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

Luc de Clapiers

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

Louis Pasteur

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

Louis Pasteur

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.

John Churton Collins

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Cheever

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

John Bolton

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Alec Waugh

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Alberto Juantorena

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Ali Babacan

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

Algernon Blackwood

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.