Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Z. Hobson

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.

Monty Python

There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not

Alexander Graham Bell

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic...

Anna Julia Cooper

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

Edward Witten

Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

Ronald D. Moore

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

Euvin Naidoo

Global capital is agnostic - it has no loyalties. There's an overhang of capital in the U.S., and the key is yield pickup. What Africa is providing is a diversification play and also opportunities for yield pickup for the investor that's aware of what he or she is doing.

John Clayton

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

Delise Denham

Kindergartners are aware the mill has moved. (My 6-year-old daughter) told me the other day there's only going to be three kids left in the school.

John Cornyn

I wouldn't read too much into this enforcement-only approach. I think the leader has previously endorsed the idea of comprehensive reform, ... I'm not aware if he has changed his view.

June Daugherty

Kayla has been clutch for five years in this program. She is someone I always counted on to have on the floor in crunch time or a late-game situation, because she's so aware of the circumstances of what's going on and what her team needs to do.

Richard Rand

He was acutely aware of market value and what he felt was a fair price. He could have bought anything he wanted. He was wealthy enough, but he often passed on things if he felt they were overpriced.

E. O. Wilson

He is probably the most improved player on that team so far. He does a great job of blocking. We definitely have to be aware of where (number) 82 is.

Courtney Lewis

There are so many books, once banned, that are foundations of English literature, so it was very important to gain awareness of this threat to English literature.

GM Howson

He's got great speed, good offensive awareness and great vision. He's just got to get experience, become an elite player at the college level. He'll play in the World Juniors, I suspect, next year and hopefully, he'll become and elite player at that level, too.

James Roosevelt

HIV/AIDS continues to be a major public health issue and the Mass Red Ribbon Ride is an important call to action. Tufts Health Plan supports the efforts of the Mass Red Ribbon Ride to increase awareness and decrease the impact of HIV/AIDS in Massachusetts.

Tim Neale

There is a greater awareness of what the regulations are.

Shia LaBeouf

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Chris McCarron

I think it's a golden opportunity for someone who wants to become a race rider to capitalize on by getting an education from a group of people who have been there, done it a long time and are not trying to pull the wool over their eyes so to speak.

George Packer

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

Jack Lord

What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.

Tom Evans

I thought we've been playing great soccer. They were able to capitalize on our mistakes.

Mark Gordon

I think the public has always been fascinated by crime. Crime in American fiction dates from the 20s, 30s and 40s in potboiler novels and film noir, not to mention tabloid journalism. In the past few years, TV just figured out a way to capitalize on that in a different manner.

Jack Kemp

Laissez-faire, Darwinian capitalism is not going to work here. Markets do work, but they need the direction of government in situations like this.

Joachim Hunold

We are floating the company because we want to capitalize on our market opportunities.

Tracey Morrill

I thought we played a good game. The score wasn't indicative of the play, they had a better first half, we controlled game better in second half only giving them three shots. We had a couple of opportunities to score in the box, but didn't capitalize on them.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Lee Hak

Investor sentiment is recovering on lower oil prices.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Alan Ackerman

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

Kyle Huske

Investors will be looking to see if Prudential can match Principal and Anthem.

Mark Gottfried

I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.

Bob Sinche

And the second quarter is supposed to be the weakest quarter, with a pickup in the third quarter.

Will Kitchen

If he starts making a couple, they all start going in. It's the same way when we play after-school pickup games. He's the sparkplug for us a lot of times.

Karen Cole

We had to make two trips in the pickup

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Rick Jones

I have the same feeling, you know. We're taxpayers providing a service to the needy, and somebody's taking advantage, and that is wrong.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

Jeff Alexander

It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.

Dan Rosensweig

It's about providing a service that users really want.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

B. C. Forbes

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

Barbara Hepworth

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.