Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Hunt

Joe DiMaggio is a quintessential American icon. And the treasures he accumulated during his storied career reflect many of the milestones in his life. They offer a nostalgic look at his triumphs with the Yankees and clearly affirm his status as the embodiment of the American dream. We are certain this auction will capture the attention of baseball fans worldwide.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

Robert Barclay

Lastly, though I affirm that after a man hath arrived to such a condition in which a man may not sin, he yet may sin; I will nevertheless not deny but there may be a state attainable in this life, in which to do righteousness may become so natural to the regenerate soul, that in the stability of this condition they can not sin.

Ann Snyder

It is in this spirit of community that we have decided to forego this traditional celebration at this time. We trust that the generous sponsors and underwriters of the Hometown Heroes Gala will also affirm their commitments and support by helping Interfaith fund its ongoing programs as well as continuing to provide Hurricane relief as long as it is needed.

Robert Collier

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Hu Jintao

In recent years, China and Canada have had quite some discussions about human rights on the basis of mutual respect, ... We affirm this constructive approach to human rights.

Dan Coats

I'm not going to affirm that. I'll just say he's a serious student of the law.

Dirk Kempthorne

I must wait until the hearing itself before I make comments on specific issues. That's the prerogative of the Senate, that's the process, and so right now this is just an opportunity to say hello again to a number of my former colleagues and affirm that I look forward to working with them.

Bob Goldman

Their motivations have been impugned, often by those with only a remote connection to their father, ... No one should dispute Claudia and John Henry's devotion to their father. In fact, those closest to Ted Williams -- his dearest friends, his doctors and those he chose personally to oversee his estate -- consistently affirm it.

Frank Hadden

I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night. We have a number of candidates and we will be assessing leadership qualities and their aptitude for the job over the next few weeks.

Rick Peterson

He has the aptitude to learn that. He understands he has the weapons it takes to flip a line-up three times and not become predictable.

Dave Barry

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

John Warnock

This is really interesting. When I was in the 9th grade, I flunked 9th grade algebra. I couldn't cope with 9th grade algebra. And then I remember taking an aptitude test when I was a sophomore in high school, and they said, "You should probably consider not going to college." Then they said, "Well, what would you like to do?

Anton Chekhov

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Sonakshi Sinha

There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.

Conrad Hall

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

Frank Hadden

We have a number of candidates for captain and we will be assessing leadership qualities and their aptitude for the job during the squad sessions over the next few weeks.

Thorstein Veblen

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

Lanny Breuer

I think it's extraordinarily unfair that in the last minute the government has chosen to intervene.

Hani Durzy

We are extremely gratified that the Supreme Court has chosen to review this case.

John O'Hurley

I am excited that I have been chosen as the host of such a television institution.

Richard Sands

He felt that Canandaigua, you know, 'The Chosen Spot,' that's what it means in Algonquin Indian, should have more cultural arts.

Pat Andriole

The fact two people from Branford were chosen is very gratifying.

C. C. H. Pounder

I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Eric Thode

You went through the primary. You should have made such a decision before the primary. You were chosen by the voters, and you should stick it out. But he has to make the decision that's right for him.

Tom Renney

You can pick all sorts of reasons out why we're doing all right this year and I can tell you Kevin Weekes has really contributed to that whole thing by the nature of how he's chosen to deal with the situation.

Chris Powell

The judiciary in Connecticut has chosen to obey the laws it wants to obey, and to tell you folks you can't pass other laws. The judiciary has got to get out of the legislation business.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

Gene Russianoff

He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Andrew Steer

There are still 60,000 people in tents today and that's clearly unacceptable a year after the tsunami.

David Bachman

His relative status in the leadership is strengthened when he focuses on foreign policy, where he is clearly the No. 1.

Steve Thomas

His mom was in the room. I think he even mentioned, so I think that these are just clearly nothing, you know, these accusations.

Jeremy Grantham

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Chris Hill

I think it's just something we heard clearly from our fans, that we were very respectful of the Ute tribe and we decided to appeal. The university has always been close to the Ute tribe. I think it's standard operating procedure to be in touch with the Ute tribe to do the right thing.

Pat Kelly

I think it'll be discussed, ... but it'll be discussed by higher-ups than us.

The Archives

has not been discussed in any meeting I've been in. And I would estimate I've been in at least 100 meetings.

Brian Sabean

I think you want him in one spot, ... We discussed Pedro being the third baseman, which is good for our defense. It's good for him to play every game in one spot.

Keith Self

I don't have the foggiest idea what Rick is referring to. There was one incident with an overzealous supporter that I discussed with Rick.

Don Hamilton

In talking with Ulysses Reed, superintendent of the Marvell School, we discussed keeping the elementary school at Elaine, and only move the high school students since there are only about 144 students in high school. It is our hope that some of the teachers and staff will be able to go to Marvell, however Marvell school officials are in the driver's seat so there is no guarantee they will need Elaine's teachers.

Bill Fletcher

All the teachers have discussed this with their students.

Duncan Hunter

these issues have been thoroughly discussed and debated.

Leslie Johnson

After the interview, we felt more involved, ... My husband and I discussed how pleased we were. Our son doesn't need to go in green.

Pierre Littbarski

It's my responsibility that he didn't play from the start. We discussed it. He was angry.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Robert Scott

By including offsets, we are providing power plant owners the flexibility to meet their commitments in the most cost-effective way possible.

Dan Reeves

He wouldn't talk to anyone, including me. It was terrible. So I quit.

Cherie Blair

I had no idea he had been in jail in more than one country, including in this country.

Allen Nogee

In general, people haven't really taken strongly to these combination products, including phone in a PDA and PDA in a phone,

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Judy Breselor

I don't find it acceptable. It's really got to go before the Planning Board. I had some issues with it and have to go see how it fits.

Tyler Perry

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.

M. Wolfe

I would think he's worth it. They might not.

Jim Edmonds

I think it might be why I struggled in the World Series,

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He might be in the lineup tomorrow.

Bryan Smolinski

(Hasek) was the reason we won. It was really tough taking those penalties in the first seven minutes, but then we got one at the end and that might have taken the wind out of their sails.

Stephanie Mills

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Alphonso Jackson

have come to realize they might not go back to New Orleans.

Kurt Kuchenbrod

He's good. He's really good. But at this point, anything can happen. If I go out and wrestle my hardest, you never know what might happen.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Dasha Zhukova

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

John Breaux

She'll know how to operate really well in the U.S. Senate. She comes in as a freshman, but she's not really a freshman,

Andrew Wright

They plan to operate it as an apartment.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Meg Scheu

Street-runners have safety concerns, and crews get training to operate under special conditions.

S. Truett Cathy

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

Doug Hock

We feel we can operate within those (restrictions).

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

William Safire

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

William Safire

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Jack Hooper

That makes them widely consumable all over the world.

Jeffrey Berger

Aspirin is a drug that has been used for many years - it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available.

Dr. Berger

Aspirin has been used for many years, it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Johnson

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Samuel Johnson

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rex Stout

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

Rex Stout

I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.