Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

All colours are arbitrary.

Mark McKinnon

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

Kenneth Burke

It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance. Sheer victimization is not an assertion - and it naturally makes not for vision but for frustration. The victimizing circumstances, or accidents, seem arbitrary and exorbitant, even silly.

Dorothy Fisher

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.

Oleg Orlov

Only the most outrageous, truly inadmissible limitations on the rights of international organizations were dropped. The bill still provides for widespread and arbitrary repression of Russian and international NGOs.

Francis Gaskins

On the face of it, it looks like it should be shorted -- not bought. It's the most arbitrary pricing I've ever seen.

Christopher Shays

I would be inclined to support gas tax relief on the House floor, but I would prefer the reinstatement of the gas tax be based on price, not an arbitrary time frame,

Tony Blair

I don't think we should have some arbitrary timetable ... You give it as long as it takes to come to a conclusive and final judgment they're not cooperating. And at the present they're not.

Steve Adams

Hard data is behind boundary changes. It is not an arbitrary decision at all.

Ellen Key

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.

Harlan Watson

We need to pursue our international efforts in a spirit of cooperation ? not coercion ? with a true sense of partnership,

Richard Bergenheim

It is always difficult to see someone speaking under coercion and under these circumstances. We are seeking more information about the letter that Jill refers to in the video. We remain in constant contact with Jill's family and are still doing everything possible to obtain Jill's release.

Dorothy Richardson

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Niall Ferguson

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

Murray Rothbard

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

Tom Daschle

coercion is not his first option, but it's an option.

Herman Kahn

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

George F. Kennan

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Bernie Bickerstaff

The 11 guys in that room are giving it everything they've got and their decisions are good. And guys who have not had an opportunity before are stepping up and performing.

Kirk Kaczor

We could have made better decisions all game long and that catches up with you. You don't take good shots and eventually you lose possessions and you're not able to score.

Peter Cullen

We have woven privacy into the DNA of Microsoft, from product development to deployment, and decisions are made with privacy in mind,

Robert Pickett

You are guilty of murder. Your predecessors made decisions which killed an innocent man,

Debbie Stabenow

We have come a long way. There is a long way to go, but I think the decisions are better made as women are participating.

Ed Sills

We have to make the right decisions for everyone, not just a few.

David King

We have to make decisions very quickly and I think the important thing here is to give the green light to the private sector utilities to give them nuclear as an option,

Kevin Toney

We have to make better decisions. We need to know when to be quick and when to be patient.

Bruce Jackson

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

Neville Chamberlain

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Peter Roskam

My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.

John Fitzgerald

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Tim Bell

I have been growing daylilies since 1982. I received my first plants from a distant relative, and the following spring, I was hooked,

David Newman

I encountered a lot of people who were very distant and uncommunicative and misleading and self-contradictory. On the other hand, I did find doctors who were extraordinary and remarkable.

Eric Mason

had a distant and past friendship, but that was more than a year ago.

Louise Leakey

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Nostradamus

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Ellie Goulding

I never thought I'd say the sentence 'It was a real honour' - because that implies that you've done something pretty special. But now I've done that several times. Yesterday I was in Buckingham Palace - I actually met the Queen yesterday and that was an honour. I never thought I'd do something like that.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.

Indiana Evans

I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

Leonid Hurwicz

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

Richard Aboulafia

That implies that they want to keep this going as long as possible.

John Thorne

It's silly, just to the ear. It implies that this team can do what no one else can, which is to be in two places at one time. Especially two places that are 35 miles apart.

David Hume

That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

Tom Schrader

Acquisitions are always positive because it implies that someone out there thinks something is undervalued.

Patricia Birch

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Christian Louboutin

It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.

Javier Solana

We have not been able to reach agreement. A precondition to constructive confidence, which is necessary now, is stopping all uranium enrichment activities.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

Angus King

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

Brian Cashman

He's got time to do what's necessary to get us where we need to be.

Jay Wright

He just did what was necessary to win the game. And having that weapon is valuable.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Mike Johnson

We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other.

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

Matt Silverman

When you see the word devil, you think evil.

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Ron Moody

He was such a professional. ... He was always word perfect.

Bruce Bennett

He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.