Famous Quotes & Sayings

David E. Price

The 2001 and 2003 tax measures are an unsettling reminder that unified party control is no guarantee of either coherence or fiscal responsibility.

Kofi Annan

While many parts of the United Nations have been involved in the peace-building process, the system has lacked a dedicated entity to oversee the process, ensure its coherence or sustain it through the long haul.

Anna Lindh

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

Robert Zoellick

It is a very fluid situation ... the process of SLM coherence is proceeding.

Dana Spiotta

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

Herbert Read

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Michael Polanyi

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

Nicolas Davila

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Jeremy Sweet

We were stationed in Pascagoula, Miss., which is about as far southeast as you can go. It was hot, hot, hot - nearly 100 degrees - and very humid every day.

Christopher Hill

The problem is you talk to one side and get one view and you talk to the other side and you get a view 180 degrees to the opposite.

Jeff Francoeur

If it weren't for Phillip Wellman I wouldn't be here right now. He's the one who got me going, taught me about patience at the plate and who showed me how to work. You'd go out there some afternoons in Pearl and it would seem like 180 degrees in that cage, but that's what it takes.

Ted Leland

I can't imagine taking another job in sports, ... I have no interest in professional athletics. Pacific happens to be a place I have two degrees from and I think I can help.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Mark Hamilton

The overall quality of women's golf is getting better, ... It's a natural evolution that these players are better.

Steve Willis

You keep showing up, you see the process, the evolution.

David Franks

We don't get pushed around by anybody. (The one-dimensional fighter) is a player who's losing his niche in hockey because of the evolution of the game.

Howard Moore

He's just seizing the opportunity. It's the evolution of him as a player. He's starting to find out more and more what his niche is.

Dwight Davis

It comes out at sort of this strange time in the company's product evolution, the last gasp of the DOS line and Windows 98.

Bill Jones

We've gone through an evolution of technologies. The capabilities our technology can provide are now what the industry is demanding.

Michael Ruse

I do not see evolution as something that is anti-religion.

Denis Simonneau

France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position.

David Deutsch

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.