Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

Shannon Flaherty

His money hasn't come from the 22nd District. His Democratic values aren't accepted by the 22nd and neither will he.

Paul Moskal

I think it's fairly close. It's accepted as state-of-the-art science, and it's very powerful evidence in that it's science as opposed to personal opinion.

John Breaux

I think anything that is perceived as parliamentary maneuvering to get out of this is not going to be accepted by the American public, ... It's going to have to be out front. It's going to have to be fair.

Steve McClaren

I was very surprised, very shocked and very disappointed. Really, it was accepted reluctantly on our behalf. But as always, you only want players who are happy here, who want to play for your football club, and Mark has made it known he wants to move on, so we have reluctantly accepted that.

Bill Schwartz

I went through a challenging review process by the school's review committee. They offered me the job, and I accepted it.

Lupita Nyong'o

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

Madeline Albright

I was 11, and I do remember being very excited, but also a little scared, because I did not know whether I would be accepted in this new land,

Ned Yost

He can't hurt it anymore than it already is. When it does hurt, it hurts for about 5 seconds and goes away.

George Packer

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

Kyle Whittingham

Players have changes of heart all the time and for whatever reason they decided they want to go in a different direction. . . . For whatever reason they've made the decision to take their game and their education ? whatever the case may be ? elsewhere. I'm not sure if they're going to play anymore or not. It's up to them. I haven't talked to them about that.

Andrew White

Party label doesn't matter nearly as much anymore at the mayoral level, ... The real long-term trend everywhere is moving away form the party operations that rooted urban politics in patronage, but that's not to say there isn't still a strong liberal social leaning in many cities.

Rachel-erika Henderson

If you treat me unkindly a little bit of me will love you less and less everyday... Then one day I will wake up and I will no longer love you anymore

Dave Penry

If you think where computers have come in the last 10 years, you can think how far forgery has come. I used to be able to tell a fake document, but I can't anymore and it puts me at extreme risk.

John Paul

In the Dayton area anymore you use to see vehicles drive by and there would be a lot of smoke. We don't see that in the area anymore.

Gianluigi Buffon

I realize the (league title) doesn't provide much excitement anymore but it's still important to bring home a trophy. I don't think this season was a failure. There are teams that don't win anything.

George C. Wallace

Being governor don't mean a thing anymore in this country. We're nothing. Just high-paid ornaments is all. I'm thinking of running for president myself.

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Rainos Hayes

I think that's how it should be. Other countries might have more surfers to choose from, but talent-wise, we feel like we can compete with the best.

Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Vikram Seth

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Brian Townsend

Our real goal is to really make our city where people choose to live, regardless of their demographic or social makeup,

Kelli Johnson

Passengers have to choose another route or another airport. We've seen a dramatic loss in seats.

Jill Pendley

Our lives a series of defining moments,strung together by passing time.Surrender fully to this moment,because it is not the moment itself that defines us,but how we choose to live in it.

John Lubbock

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Lucas Glover

Just the experience is going to be great, just being there and walking around.

Chris Traulsen

I think it's a good long-term investment. They've got a ton of experience between Mason Hawkins and Stanley Cates, and the managers have significant portions of their own net worth in the Longleaf funds. They have every incentive to do right by their shareholders.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Brian Viloria

This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight that I can look at and really take away a lot of things from.

Jenny Pfeiffer

This was a great experience and we would have liked the season to keep going. Next year will be different.

Daniel Solove

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Warren Farrell

Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

Wilfred Burchett

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Kurt Busch

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.

Khaled Hosseini

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Noam Chomsky

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Judith Butler

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

Judith Butler

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Jerry Seinfeld

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Adam Mansbach

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

Bob Davis

It's like liberal and puritanical at the same time.

Marc Garneau

The Liberal Party has taken a beating. Now it's time to move on.

Stephen Harper

a substantial strengthening of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Rudy Giuliani

a vote for the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

J. C. Watts

I'm a strong Liberal. I've voted Liberal all my life. I probably will again. But not this time. It's time for a change.

Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Maajid Nawaz

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

Alfonso Gagliano

I can always run as an independent. I wouldn't run as a Liberal with Paul Martin as the leader.

Walter Bagehot

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

William Shakespeare

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

Jeaniene Frost

...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

David Eddings

Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

Kevin Criswell

We have to be. If we want to have any success in this tournament we have to do it. We're probably a little under-talented, but we'll play better as a team.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Russell Crowe

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Werner Erhard

All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.

Wayne Dyer

I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

Sandra Day O'Connor

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

Warren Miller

You are a unique person, just like everybody else!!

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Muqtada al Sadr

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.