Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Charles Dickens

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Charles Spurgeon

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Alan Alda

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Chris Christie

I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.

David Hockney

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Audrey Hepburn

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

Vince Carter

We still think we're a good team. We didn't get blown out of here (in Cleveland), for one. We're capable. We just have to step it up a little bit.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

McKayla Maroney

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

Pam Brown

Unsolicited donations have doubled since the campaign started.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Jan Egeland

We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.

Jean Chretien

We spoke in this campaign about preserving social programs and Medicare and that we will do,

E. O. Wilson

We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan.

Thomas Mann

Whether this has any long-term impact depends on whether a party or presidential candidate seizes the opportunity to elevate political reform as a campaign and governing issue.

David Guarino

Tom's campaign had nothing whatsoever to do with this. He knows the Murphy family but had no contact with them about this case.

Dick Cheney

We're going to take our campaign right through the heart of the swing states, the battleground states,

John Edwards

We're going to have a campaign and an election, not a coronation.

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

David Drake

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid of making decisions.

Antony Beevor

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

Hilary Rosen

We are pleased with the court's decision today.

Mads Mikkelsen

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Felipe Alou

The possibility was open for him to be here during the game. It all depended on something he had to do.

Amy Johnson

We are pretty solid. It all depends on how this team comes together.

Red Berenson

We've addressed the ranking thing, and how fickle that is this time of year. Every weekend, two more games go by, and someone moves up or someone moves down depending on those games. So, the ranking doesn't matter.

Ron Evans

We are going to see how many tokens we have once they are redeemed and will evaluate some options depending on the quantity that are received in our restaurants.

Charles Fletcher

We're in discussions to resolve the issues. That's the track we're working on now. It just depends on whether or not we reach a meeting of the minds. We're not quite there yet.

Heidi Klum

We start early in the morning with hair and makeup. It depends what time of the year it is. In the summertime we start at 5:30 in the morning.

Pavel Nedved

We start as equals on Sunday. Inter have many qualities, like us after all. You can't say who is the strongest, it depends on the day..on how we've slept at night.

Jaleesa Ross

We have so many weapons. It just depends on who's hot. Tonight I was feeling it.

Bill Hamilton

They obviously have one of the largest impacts of any employer,

Peter Greene

The stock market is a discounting mechanism. Many people recently have seen their mortgages raised -- and many people have adjustable rate mortgages -- unfortunately they have been raised. Oil prices are at near highs. It impacts people's discretionary income. And I think we're seeing it in those stocks that would have a relationship to that discretionary income.

Judd Gregg

We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone.

David Sinclair

The time for people to make judgments is when the studies are complete. It's only then when we know what the potential impacts will be.

Simon Flannery

The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.

Dan Miller

People will come anyway, the reason to get involved is to keep impacts positive.

Todd Barker

I think people are seeing that we recognize the impacts of those routes.

Angela Bassett

We don't take it lightly. It impacts us.

Jim Wooldridge

I don't know where Blalock is going to end up in the voting, but I really like him. (Curtis) Stinson made his name a little quicker, but (Blalock) impacts their team more than anybody.

Margaret Whitman

We'll see which one of those works for us and is cost-effective and that's how we'll refine our marketing mix going forward,

William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

Bill Strathmann

It really requires a savvy marketing approach, which is stereotypically something that non-profits have not done well.

Henry Harteveldt

They're really just marketing gimmicks. There's nothing wrong with them, but I don't think it's going to move the needle for you.

Brian Tracy

If you want to be in network marketing, you have to be extremely literate online.

Ben E. King

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Charlene Li

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Marlene Rosenberg

We want everyone to be welcome to Beth Zion. That is a big message of Messiah.

Penn Jillette

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

Craig Fugate

Until we really understand why people ... don't prepare and what it takes to get that message across, then I think that's going to be our challenge.

Casey Kasem

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Casey Kasem

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Joseph Marbach

Wow, that's wild, the message isn't getting across.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Lorraine Toussaint

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

John Milton

The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.

Joe Vinson

The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think,

Mike Stackpole

We still thought we might be able to do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Charles Dickens

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Charles Stanley

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

John Anderson

Some things they see here are things they can't see on a smaller scale at their own school.

Dinesh Keskar

The scale is going to go up for them.

Jan Egeland

I've never seen such devastation before. We are in the sixth day of operation, and every day the scale of devastation is getting wider.

Sam Altman

The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Ginni Rometty

We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before.

Ron Silver

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Tom Vilsack

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Ken McNeely

We simply don't think Californians should have to wait that long.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Robert Henri

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Steve Blake

As we put them in outlying areas, contamination has been more of a problem. We are still experimenting with different situations and locations.

Carol Majeske

It's just a stressful situation for wildlife who are already stressed out in the winter.

Joe Gibbs

It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.

Michael Irvin

It's a situation that is not as it seemed.

Janice Kruger

A lot of things do stay the same over the years. But there are also a lot of things that are different, and those things keep a real special situation here every year.

Bobby Bowden

They need to be in a game-like situation and play as a unit and see how they respond. Because you can't do it much in the fall.

George Hudson

It's more about the situation that the team will be in,

Kelly Holcomb

It's not my decision. You're competitive. You want to play. But you also have to know the situation and I do.

Shlomo Dror

They are going because they want to leave. The situation is dangerous.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Gordon Sinclair

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Jeffrey Hirsch

There tends to be a lot of housecleaning from institutions in September,

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!