Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Thomas

That would be a disaster because there would be no pressure on anyone to move forward. In the absence of broadly defined and accepted standards, we have to find a way to interconnect systems while at the same time continuing to refine and define standards.

Marguerite Gardiner

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Neil Buckholtz

This research is intriguing because it associates genetic risk for dementia with twins' cognitive deficits, even in the absence of dementia. The differences in cognitive deficits between identical and fraternal twins are also important, suggesting that the twins who were more similar genetically had the greater risk.

John Banville

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

Don Meyer

A lot of things, I think, would have to go wrong in order for this widespread civil unrest to become a reality,

Linda Miller

They know a lot before they get to it. We probably have the only second-grader in the county who knew about Stonewall Jackson in the Civil War.

Renee Asher

They have done what they set out to do ... to engage the wider community in their fight for civil rights.

Viktor Yushchenko

This decision puts Ukraine on the verge of civil conflict.

Andrew Kohut

This important question of the trade-off of civil liberties and protection is one the public takes very seriously,

Marvin Miller

They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offence.

Anthony Ricco

They thought they had someone, and they pressed him and pressed him. Civil liberties were put on hold, because the government was dealing with a tragedy of enormous proportions.

Hosni Mubarak

It's not on the threshold (of civil war). It's pretty much started.

Rand Paul

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

Nicole Perrot

This is a good golf course. You never know. I have a chance. I'm either going on to the ADT or I'm going back home to Chile, so either way will be good for me.

Evan Walters

This season has been a lot of runs, either we're on or we're not. We know we can pull it together.

David Wilmot

Either do it with Republicans or don't waste your time. Republicans run the government. If you do not work with them, you will not be successful.

Conrad Black

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Sharon Kesselring

Everyone is preparing to come home as soon as possible, either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Jason Williams

After watching (Ross) last year and seeing all the great things he did, it was in the back of my mind, 'I can either be as good as him, or try to be better than him,'

Justin Bradshaw

It's really simple mechanically. If we need parts, most of them are either Volkswagen parts or generic ones you can get at NAPA.

Jeremy Mylymok

Any time you go to a shootout, it could go either way.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Lorrin Lee

If you want to Rich ...own your own Home and your own Business. Be FREE to pursue life in your own way ...with all your passion.

Kerwin Forges

Cliff's been our go-to guy all year. He missed two free throws. Stuff happens. We should have won the game before that.

Ronald Reagan

Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal.

Boris Yeltsin

His contribution was invaluable to the formation of a new image of the Middle East, free of stereotypes of confrontation and enmity.

Nancy Reagan

His legacy is a strong and free America, and for this and for a lifetime of selfless service, a grateful nation thanks him.

Marshall Brown

I never even thought about it. I knew I was going to hit my free throws. I think I'm a good free throw shooter and whenever I get to the line I think I'm going to knock them down.

Teresa Case

I'm the senior, so I thought it was my job to sink those free throws. But we are all pretty good free-throw shooters, so it didn't really matter who was up there.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Bill Vaughan

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

William Banting

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Wilford Brimley

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

Walter Lippmann

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

Winston Churchill

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Winston Churchill

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

Harvey Cox

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Genghis Khan

It is easy to conquer the world from the back of a horse.

Laura Hillenbrand

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Fritz Haber

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

Ben Braaten

No matter what, we are going to pressure the ball.

Galvin Morris

No matter what the score is, they've now been in that situation. They now can say we've been there before and we can come back.

Bruce Lowry

Any time we're a subject matter of one of these rumors we don't talk. There's nothing to be gained.

Peter Medawar

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Adolf Hitler

Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Adam Savage

Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

Adam Cole

However, the positive, and I mean this, Jay Lethal and Kyle O'Reilly are two of my favorite opponents. I couldn't ask for two guys I'd rather be in a triple threat match with. On top of that, creatively, if we are able to make something that's really exciting for the fans, any time there are more bodies in the ring, you can always create something that's different because there's more than two people in the ring.

Adam Clarke

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

Abraham Polonsky

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Abraham Lincoln

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!