Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

Isabella Bird

I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

Ismail Kadare

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.

Giraldus Cambrensis

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Yuri Milner

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Virginia Postrel

Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

Virginia Postrel

Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Ezra Taft Benson

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Abu Ahmed

The policy makers are not serious over the issue of improving the overall strength of the capital market.

Denis Napthine

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

John C. Calhoun

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

William Graham Sumner

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

Noah Feldman

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

Noreena Hertz

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Robert Woodruff

The acquisition of LCI International was completed in just 88 days, and the integration of the two companies is progressing very well, with operating and capital synergies expected to be better than originally announced.

Guillermo Coria

That was the key point. There was everything in this match, a lot of turnarounds, but I knew how to capitalize on my chances.

Rob Francis

We couldn't capitalize on our scoring chances and that was the story of the game. They capitalized on our mistakes.

Orhan Pamuk

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

Evander Holyfield

I still love Mike; it's just those demons that possess him and make him do things. He needs to find a new savior.

Robbie Williams

On Geri Halliwell: She turned into a demonic little girl. It was genuinely scaring me.

Jim Graham

If it's true, I look at it as a message for those who are struggling with their own demons and have spouses or loved ones in the same situation.

Ron Shelton

He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.

Dave Roy

He hasn't pitched much this year, but I knew he could do it. I have a lot of confidence, and he did a good job of keeping the Demons off balance, and he threw a lot of strikes.

David S. Goyer

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.

August Wilson

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

Gerard Butler

The poem is much more about pure good versus pure evil. Whereas the movie, Beowulf goes to take on this troll who they all perceive as a demon and filthy and ignorant and sadistic, only to discover that that's not actually the case.

Gore Vidal

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

Nancy Keenan

The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.

Steve Downie

That was huge by Dawson. He stepped up for this team. He deserves it because he works so hard for us.

Bill Sexton

Tyler's record speaks for itself. He now has 110 wins and stands in third place on our all-time list. He's a good, hard worker and really deserves this.

Craig Kelly

You are innocent until proven guilty. And I think Ernie deserves the same consideration regardless of whether he's a politician or a janitor in the street.

Christian Fauria

You just feel better when he's out there. He never really misses practices. He's never out of position. He's a force to be reckoned with. ... I think he deserves everything he gets.

Glenn Howard

I'm so happy for Russ. He deserves it.

Scott Macartney

I'm so excited for him. I'm his room-mate here. He deserves it, he skied great today.

Landon Donovan

I'm stunned, impressed and extremely happy for him. He deserves his reward.

William E. Conway, Jr.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

Chino Moreno

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

Rick Lynch

The policy doesn't need to change. The policy that's in effect is the one that will stay in effect.

Tito Mboweni

The overall effect of the international oil price increases on inflation and output has been far more muted than expected.

David Hanson

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

Denis Napthine

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.

Nash Grier

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Dave Wilson

That will have ripple effects throughout the health-care system, especially those individuals in Nova Scotia that are waiting for surgeries.

Gerrit Smith

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

Clint Eastwood

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

Carl Sagan

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

Carl Sagan

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Carl Sagan

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

Carl Sagan

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

Bertrand Russell

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

Bertrand Russell

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Bertrand Russell

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

Padgett Powell

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

Scott Jones

You can find him guilty on Monday and not guilty on Tuesday.

William Moffitt

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

S. Walker

Basically, he's told me he had no involvement in this murder, so we intend to plead not guilty and we intend to go to trial.

Simon Armitage

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

Bible Bible

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Tony Garcia

We're positive he was going to be not guilty because we know our family.

Michael Grimm

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

Walter Todd

He was factually guilty of intentional homicide, but from the beginning, he's had remorse.

Peaches Geldof

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

Vince Suriano

We played hard, but we were haunted by the big play.

Katie Featherston

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Bruce Udvari

Serves haunted us. You give up 10 points to any team and that's not good. I have to give the kids credit. They stuck in there.

Ariel Pink

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

Ron Rash

I've always been haunted that he might have been.

Bret Ellis

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psycho haunts me and it will be on my gravestone. That's why it is such an important part of Lunar Park .

Gary Ross

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Sue Smith

It's looking less and less haunted all the time,

C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Bill Bowerman

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Bertrand Russell

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,