Famous Quotes & Sayings

William H. Seward

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

Anne Wilson Schaef

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

Judith Butler

Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.

Stephen F. Lynch

The Amgen Tour of California is a perfect venue for Health Net to promote healthy lifestyles and affirm our commitment to helping people live healthy lives.

Meredith Monk

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.

Oscar Arias

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

George Scalise

June's numbers exceeded our expectations and affirm our forecast for a strong 2000.

Shaukat Aziz

I wish to affirm our total solidarity to all the countries who have suffered in these disasters and pledge to overcome the mammoth task of rehabilitation,

Mike Conway

For the short term, Northwest has pretty much assured us they are going to affirm the leases.

Bob Turcotte

We have more than exceeded my expectations. I thought perhaps going 14-5 would be reasonable.

Don Meyer

We invited 1,000 of our volunteers, and expected from 200 to 300 to be able to attend. As always, their response has exceeded our expectations.

Dan Fellman

I was very pleased with the opening. It exceeded our expectations.

Donald Brownlee

It exceeded all of our grandest expectations. We should have more than 1 million particles larger than 1 micron in diameter.

Dr. Roberts

I think Randy is a fantastic success story. He exceeded my personal expectations for recovery.

Chuck D.

We exceeded the predictions, but we lived up to our own internal expectations.

Judy Williams

Nicole has done an outstanding job getting them to mesh. This program has exceeded our expectations.

Phil Goldstein

What you really have is a rogue agency. So many people give the SEC such wide latitude, but they have exceeded (their) legal authority.

Arne Dankers

Just to be here was something special for our team. We exceeded all of our expectations, for sure.

Bee Wilson

In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

James Franklin

We forecast this to be a minimal-strength hurricane.

Chuck Hill

We forecast technology as a whole for 11 percent growth as of Jan. 2. As of March 20, it's at minus 7 percent.

William Massey

If a storm makes landfall within a 200-mile radius, it's probably a good forecast, ... Eight, 10 years ago, that was a 300-mile radius. So they are improving the forecasts drastically.

RL Brown

To forecast the end of this housing market (boom) you need to forecast when people will stop moving here.

Lyle Gramley

Greenspan did not participate in supplying numbers for that forecast -- he refused to do so -- and sometimes in his testimony he didn't even mention the forecast.

Steve Fortuna

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

Noreena Hertz

I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.

Molly Smith

We're mapping to that forecast ... We're very comfortable with where we are.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Arnold Rothstein

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

Antonia Fraser

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

C. S. Lewis

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

C. S. Lewis

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

Catie Curtis

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Cecelia Ahern

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

Carrie Underwood

I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

Carrie Underwood

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

Carrie Underwood

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

Carl Rogers

The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.