Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what they want. But this plenitude threatens political and cultural authorities who believe in telling individuals what they can have rather than letting them choose for themselves.

Bradley Byrne

The state of Alabama is serious about economic development, and we have shown that the Mobile region has a skilled workforce that is developing every day, strong infrastructure, and an abundance of natural resources.

Roger Ashby

We have an abundance of strikers and until I know the situation with Duane I will keep my cards close to my chest.

Saint Bernard

Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.

Billy Collins

I think more people should be reading it but maybe fewer people should be writing it, ... there's an abundance of unreadable poetry out there.

Mary Lambert

Beauty, by way of fashion, has to do with confidence, with flattering silhouettes, with patterns, with proper fit for body type, and with an abundance of self-love!

Ann Veneman

We are, in an abundance of caution, beginning, as of last night, a recall of that product. And we're tracing forward to see where that product went.

Brian McBride

It doesn't do any good to sulk, ... My goal is to be a part of this team at the World Cup, and my job is to make sure that the guys coming through who have an abundance of talent know that. Hopefully, I can help lead them in the right direction with where to be and what to do and how it's going to feel. That's the case with Eddie and when I was playing with Jeff Cunningham in Columbus. These guys have unbelievable amounts of talent, and it's important to make sure they know that.

Carolyn Porco

Well, in some sense we should have expected, if the recent models are correct, to see them on the dark side where the photoelectron abundance is low. So, I was surprised to see them. But once they showed up, I realized we should have expected them there all along.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Bernie Bickerstaff

The 11 guys in that room are giving it everything they've got and their decisions are good. And guys who have not had an opportunity before are stepping up and performing.

Kirk Kaczor

We could have made better decisions all game long and that catches up with you. You don't take good shots and eventually you lose possessions and you're not able to score.

Peter Cullen

We have woven privacy into the DNA of Microsoft, from product development to deployment, and decisions are made with privacy in mind,

Robert Pickett

You are guilty of murder. Your predecessors made decisions which killed an innocent man,

Debbie Stabenow

We have come a long way. There is a long way to go, but I think the decisions are better made as women are participating.

Ed Sills

We have to make the right decisions for everyone, not just a few.

David King

We have to make decisions very quickly and I think the important thing here is to give the green light to the private sector utilities to give them nuclear as an option,

Kevin Toney

We have to make better decisions. We need to know when to be quick and when to be patient.

John Jones

We could increase the density and go up, but they won't do that.

Ernie Cox

We have to have the increase in density to make a workable town.

William Frey

I think low density is the attraction. People would rather make a long commute and have a big yard and a big house.

Ernie Cox

We need the increase in density to make the development a reality. We can't make it work without transferring density.

Mark Brown

If we can finance the parking garage, we can have greater density of development.

Carolyn Porco

We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things,

Randy Russell

To be affordable, we need higher density (of buildings), and people don't want that.

Dwight Kroll

Land is at a premium in the area. We're going to be seeing a trend in these higher density developments.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Brian Kernighan

If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize.

Dolly Parton

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Noreena Hertz

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

Jon Wilkins

We have also negotiated with Royal Mail that, instead of the paper process by which they sign for receipt of mail, they will sign our drivers' pocket PCs, which means the information can go straight on our website.

Mark Zuckerberg

It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

Scott Horne

Typically the rule with respect to publicizing information is that if it's information that a person could obtain by sitting in the courtroom, then release of that information through the media is allowed.

Joe Torre

We have a lot of information to digest.

Mark Fulghum

We've got some information, but we've got a long way to go. We still have a lot of unanswered questions.

Jim Rogers

We're waiting to get more information from Canada, at which point we could be able to scale back, ... We just need that information.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Mike Helton

We don't want to react just for the sake of reacting. We want to measure all of the possible ramifications before we make a decision.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Ernie Carson

If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

E. O. Wilson

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

Bill McKibben

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

Chris Rix

We anticipated a lot more single coverage, but we didn't get it as often as we wanted to,

Kenny Williams

We'll never let A.J. get on top of the world. Never. Not one single day.

Robbie Williams

My self-doubts are disappearing day by day... However, my first single was a cover.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

Diane Setterfield

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Bill Bryson

The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--

Wayne Wright

If it's marsh-covered, they'd have to get out there with the snakes and the alligators.

David Moody

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

Dean Acheson

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Bear Grylls

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

Charles Krauthammer

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

Demetri Martin

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Bryan Pfeiffer

There are many gull species in the world. This one is noticeably different from any gull we have in Vermont.

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?