Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Seligman

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Harvinder Kalirai

We're seeing a benign neglect in terms of the weakness of the Japanese yen. There's little reason for the Japanese to be worried because it seems the lower the yen gets the bigger the support it gives to exporters.

Malcolm Gladwell

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

Toba Beta

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

Bill Tierney

They found things in these tapes I had explained in a more benign manner.

Kevin Norrish

It's only a matter of time before geopolitical developments give the market another sharp tug. The chances of a benign settlement in coming months over the Iranian nuclear issue have receded in recent weeks.

Fred Taylor

There were great expectations for a benign climate on Venus, and of course we now know it's not like that. The pressures are crushing, and the temperatures are hot enough to melt lead. So it's quite inhospitable. We don't know how long it's been like that, or if it will stay like that.

Michael Hastings

There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.

Andre Bakhos

The report may give a reading on the economy and, bottom line, what may happen with interest rates. We are also coming from several days of declines, so a benign report may help boost stocks today.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Bill Nye

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

Cass Sunstein

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

Alan Lowenthal

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Ken Gross

We're running the danger right now of an overreach. It's a terrible climate to legislate.

John Ash

A lot of the residents thought because they were going south, the climate was going to be a lot warmer,

Jay Farrar

A lot of songs were written in about a six-month period that coincided with the run-up to the election. And we were recording it in the fall, just a couple of weeks before the election. The World Series was going on too, I think. Just having that climate in this country at that time, I had to acknowledge some of what was going on at the time.

Jennifer Robinson

It's not something that's unique to McGill; it is out there. And in order for us to ensure that we have a climate of mutual respect and understanding operating in all our activities, we have to be much more pro-active.

Gerry Bell

It's not linked to global warming or anything like that. This is normal climate variability.

Gary Shaw

When you've been going to places for 35 years, of course you think about it being your last time. Each track meet has something you remember.

Kate Mulgrew

We would very much like to work together again. And we've talked about it for years. For some reason it's been elusive. She would take a movie idea to a network and I would not be available. And of course Voyager happened and it's just been - it's not been in the cards. But I'd give my eye-teeth to work with her.

Jim Quinn

We're seeing price swings that we haven't seen in decades. We used to see a $6 range in gold over a week, and now we see it in a single day. The gold market is really going to be in play over the course of the year.

Otis Smith

We've got more guys hurt than we've got guys healthy. So of course we're looking.

Kate Allen

What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly on human rights law, others concentrate on practical skills such as campaigning and lobbying. That's very valuable.

Howard Dean

We're going to have to win eventually, ... But the question was do we have to win on February 3? Of course we want to. But we don't have to. What we've got to do is amass as many delegates as we can.

Jeff Bright

We're going to be working hard on improving our course management skills and we hope to peak at the end of the year. Right now, we just need to learn how to prepare ourselves mentally.

Daniel Rich

We're finally getting those crossing passes out to her. Of course Carolyn's scored all of our goals ... but we'll take that.

Jasper Johns

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Andre Owens

We're looking for a win, because we want to be as hot as we can be going into the tournament. We have to look at it that way.

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Richard Rushing

At any point in time, I can reach out and touch everyone's laptop at the hot spot, and there's usually not any way of preventing that -- from me touching and looking at other people's stuff at the hot spot itself.

William White

. . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot brick.

Lykke Li

The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it's not about that. If you're a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking.

Antonin Scalia

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

Mary Wittenberg

The race is on to remove the snow before it melts and potentially re-freezes as ice.

D. H. Lawrence

Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

Rush Limbaugh

What we need to do is stop global warming; that's the only way to stop your peanut butter cups from melting. And if that doesn't do the trick, then put them in the fridge. Or better yet, eat them.

Tom Schatz

Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington.

Khalil Gibran

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

Esperanza Spalding

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Lionel Richie

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Mark Zandi

My sense is, there will be more inflationary pressures going forward.

Rob Lowe

I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.

Warren Christopher

not succumb to suggestions or pressures that they leave.

Alastair Campbell

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

Dave Strang

They are doing quite well in the conference. They've got three scorers, basically, from what I've seen on their stats.

John Taylor

They are showing they are quite intransigent and showing they are going to be very difficult.

Colin Firth

There was quite a lot of your rear end that didn't make it either.

Stephen Hess

There were big, big items, and that was really quite exceptional for one of these speeches.

Anne Fox

They probably will be here for quite some time, ... There's a possibility they could be absorbed into the community.

I. Stone

I try not to get quite so pushy,

Brett Buckles

It was quite the jump, being thrown into it. It's been a blast.

Thomas Breuer

It was quite surprising to me and my team to make this observation.

Ali Alatas

It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.

Howard Dean

we're going to find a way to stay in one way or the other.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Avril Lavigne

Keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through. We'll make it through. Just stay strong, cause you know I'm here for you. I'm here for you. There's nothing you could say. Nothing you could do. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, but keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through.

Blanka Vlasic

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Deron Williams

We're just trying to stay alive. We're going to play 'til they tell us we can't play anymore.

Shawn Barber

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

Dave Tippett

They play a game, and you have to stay with the game. You can't deviate.

Jason Bowen

They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.