Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Dennett

We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

David Perlmutter

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

David Hawkins

Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.

Dan Brown

Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.

Andrew Lansley

No decision about me without me.

Andrea Arnold

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

Ambrose Bierce

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Anthony Hopkins

I never make conscious decisions.

Alice Walker

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Ambrose Bierce

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

Andrew Jackson

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

Andy Sawford

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

Ann Richards

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

Kathryn Bigelow

I like high impact movies.

Mark Wasserman

We're talking about annexing all this land. It has potential to impact the development.

Emilia Clarke

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

Laurie Zoloth

This will have a profound impact on stem-cell research. The opponents of the research will feel themselves to be vindicated.

Rick Homans

We think this will have even more impact than a NASA operation. NASA is one customer, what we see are many customers.

Robin Ollis

We think this will have a positive impact on students and their scientific backgrounds for many, many years.

Ken Goldstein

To me, that could well prove a more important issue than the impact of Katrina,

Joel Mills

We don't perceive any impact on our operations.

Karen Allen

When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could see. So many of them were really more about the human condition and about relationships between people, and they were smaller films that had a much greater impact on me as a human being.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Harry S Truman

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Immanuel Kant

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

J. K. Rowling

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Ivan Pavlov

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

H. L. Mencken

I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.