Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Dickens

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

Charles Dickens

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

Dave Foley

The potential is enormous but it's up to us to really develop that leisure-oriented market.

Gunter Thielen

We are prepared for an IPO. Bertelsmann has developed strongly in the last years and increased its profits considerably.

Brian Clodi

We've always been able to score. We've got to more defensive-minded. We've got to develop that mean streak.

Greg Poland

We still use 1940s technology to develop influenza vaccines.

Gerhard Schroeder

Where it is necessary, programs will be further developed with public discussion,

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Herbert A. Simon

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

Li Shufu

In general, what we want to do is to elevate Volvo's brand positioning, and we feel the main lever to achieve that is to develop more higher-tier products.

Shawn McElroy

They had some quick players and they just executed the basics. We've been working on the same kinds of things, we're just not quite there yet.

John Ricci

It's not just colds. It could be flu, or other respiratory kinds of illnesses.

Richard Eastman

It's not possible that you could get into the kinds of things that could do damage.

Bill Caylor

For all kinds of reasons, the labor pool is smaller.

Dave Cole

It's one of those kinds of situations where there is no place to win.

Jim Aumann

There's all kinds of things happening. It shuts out long weekends.

Mel Netzhammer

It requires a different kinds of management and leadership style.

Jason Robert Brown

I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and what makes me crazy.

Richard Dickson

It's a wonderful way to see all the different kinds of planes,

Sal Albanese

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Kevin Fitzpatrick

We wanted to mitigate the risk, so we started by first selling the most marketable portion, the residential land, to other developers.

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Amanda Seyfried

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

Lori Haley

They're being processed for removal and possible prosecution.

Chris Browning

It was awesome. I tried to stay as relaxed as possible because I haven't been in there for a while. I was happy.

Mike Cunningham

Anything is possible in a world of dreams.

Alan May

Quite frankly, I don't think that would be possible with over-the-counter trading.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Scott Tucker

It was something unexpected. I didn't know this was going to happen. I just wish more could have been done to prevent it.

Ben Bernanke

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Robert Belshe

Preventing influenza in children, we think, will reduce influenza in our society.

Roger Smith

That?s good. It prevents the big earthquakes from coming.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

David Card

At some point, you want to prevent the other technology from being adopted.

Neil Ferguson

To be effective, ... you really must use a combination of strategies. No single one would successfully prevent an epidemic.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

David B. Coe

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be...

Rumi

The source of now is here.

Sergio Aragones

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

Richard Stallman

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

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.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Noam Chomsky

Control is the source of strategic power.