Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Bible Bible

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? / With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Victoria de los Angeles

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

Gary Gibson

Plotinus, 'The One' and the Source of MatterThe ideas that Plotinus developed as a neoplatonist writing about seven hundred years after Plato acknowledged the prior ancient philosophical work by pre-Socratic philosophers on elucidating the concept of ?The One? unified being that creates everything else that exists through another aspect of himself.

William Butler Yeats

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

Clayton Christensen

Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

Edward Fitzgerald

But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, / And still a Garden by the Water blows.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian . . . handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Doug Heiken

Now the Forest Service and BLM must stop avoiding their legal responsibilities and get to work implementing the Forest Plan, so at least minimal protections are in place for ancient forests, salmon, wildlife and clean drinking water.

Jeffrey Sachs

The broader issue of the real role of the U.S., the foreign assistance aspect of that, who's going to pay for the security of a global economy?

Jim Barnett

A veteran of portal and search wars, Rob has seen and touched all aspects of Yahoo's business from startup to hyper-growth.

David Farmer

Athletes that can generate the most watts of energy over time will win the race. In cycling at Tom's level, you can no longer just be a time trial specialist or a hill climber and expect to win a stage race like the Tour de France. You've got to be able to perform well in all aspects of the race.

Gu Yuan

The strikes and good economic indicators from China are supporting this round of the rally. The positive aspects of fundamentals are attracting more hedge funds, pension funds into metals and other commodities.

Neil Mellor

The story still is Japanese monetary policy and unwinding of yen carry trade. We have to look from the yen aspect and move away from a dollar-centric view.

Jim Frederick

Ryan's our leader offensively and defensively. He's our most intelligent player. He's our leader on the field in every aspect of the game.

Graeme Cox

Ryan Scott played about the best doubles game of his career today. We are happy that his hard work and dedication to work on improving this aspect of his game is paying off.

John Gutfreund

Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.

John Wooden

Quickness under control is the most valuable physical aspect of any sport, ... I wanted more strengthening of the long, supple muscles. I wasn't just looking for strength.

Tim Sheldon

Offensively, we're working. We have a team concept going. We're working hard. They surprised me a little bit. I thought this was going to be a struggle, especially early on and it's cold. But they surprised me pleasantly.

Keni Thomas

Some (songs) were happy. Some were sad. Some were pretty motivational and some were just rockin'. It was a concept record, because we knew that you wouldn't be able to do this for the rest of your career.

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

David Soul

I see my kids more often than ever, the six of them. The problems that used to be there, between myself and the first wives are gone. And what's happened over these years is that we've become friends. What a concept you know, become friends first, then get married. They all get on with each other too.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Tao Lin

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

Jon Kelly

Even kids as young as nine years are learning about gambling. They may not be gambling with money, but they're learning concepts of gambling. They see it.

Joseph Conrad

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

Juan Goytisolo

Count Julian is, simultaneously, a work of fiction and a work of criticism, which defies deliberately a tyrannical conception of genre.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Tim Ryan

This creates a love of learning. We need to develop a love of learning in general ... that will help us be a competitive country.

M. Wolfe

Disorganization in an office environment creates a lot of stress. Getting organized is a real emotional process, and it always gets worse before it gets better.

Ron Hill

There's some offensive linemen to be had. Linebacker is a pretty strong position. It looks like you can get some defensive linemen, but not a lot of them. Teams are going to different fronts and doing different things, so it creates more room for a different style of lineman. You'll take a different guy for a 3-4 team than you would a 4-3 team, so that creates a different look and view there. There are more of those 3-4 guys than there are 4-3 guys at end.

Todd Engle

I think this is a team that we match up with pretty well when it comes to height. I think Abby (Nolan) creates a lot of problems for a lot of different people. I'm pretty sure that's where they'll focus their attention.

Ray Giacoletti

I think he is the most improved player in the league. He is so much more skilled offensively and creates a lot of problems inside.

Keith Tucker

The fans were great tonight, ... It creates a fantastic atmosphere. They were really excited to have strong support tonight and it showed in their play.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Charlie Brown

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

Mike Sutton

This program was developed by the police in Ireland.

Dan Witter

Brent developed into that role as the season progressed. He did a super job finding the open man out there. Overall I thought we progressed as a team and played to our strengths and that's probably why we finished third in the conference.

Andrew Adamson

We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked.

Eric Haxthausen

The fact that fuel prices have increased and more importantly, fuel price forecasts have increased since the proposal was developed suggests a stronger standard is warranted.

Mark Knox

Many of the facilities, tools and systems developed over the past 10 years can still be used for HD DVD. That translates to a much more rapid time to market, and a smoother and more economical transition.

Randy Ognibene

She has just developed tremendously. She is our leader on the floor.

Lori Ulferts

She really has matured a lot. She's developed into a fine player.

Simon McBurney

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

Werner Herzog

Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.

Julie Gayet

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Mitchell Baker

Over the history of the Mozilla project, it turns out that the product browsers exists on many different kinds of machines.

Esai Morales

I think that racism has gotten more subtle, and it's not even racism anymore: it's placism. Like where you live or whether you went to community college or Harvard, and it exists within the race.

Leonard Bacon

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

Adelina Sotnikova

Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

William Shakespeare

A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep / And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. / Welcome.

Colby Armstrong

A hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old. It's unbelievable.

Turkish Proverbs

A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings.

Confucius

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

Mark Twain

When angry, count to a hundred.

Tom DeGroote

But you know what? I lost a hundred pounds, so it's worth it to me.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Tracy

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

Brenda Ueland

You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane Jacobs

New ideas often need old buildings.

Jane D. Hull

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

Arthur Koestler

When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

Anna C. Brackett

If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted.

Stephen Jay Gould

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

Stephen Jay Gould

The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

Alfred North Whitehead

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Plato

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Plato

The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

Plato

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

Dylan Smith

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

John Wallace

Prior to today, you were from the three towns, ... But from today on, you are from Passaic Valley.

Ron Bonjean

The speaker is making it a top priority to get that done.

David Atkinson

The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the only priorities.

Jeremy Shada

I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'

David Townsend

This is the first time we've had this type of occurrence. There just had been no prior experience.

Joel Sawyer

That's going to be one of our priorities going into this session.

Mike Claffey

We've taken that on because it's a priority for safety reasons.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Kim Devlin

Well that's seven more votes than we expected.

Richelle Nice

We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end.

S. Truett Cathy

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Tom Evans

Get transported back to the seventies !

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Honore de Balzac

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Henri Nouwen

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Ray Nagin

If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Eric Maskin

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

Calvin Coolidge

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.