Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis in the best interest of the individual. So we need to look at how much rugby any given player has had since the beginning of the year, the amount of contact, their position, plus any injury history.

O. Henry

The team showed a huge amount of character and heart out there. Maybe they wouldn't have handled it at other times.

Patrick Fearon

The survey for the final reading would have taken place over the past 10 days or so, when market volatility was particularly high, ... Because of that, the final reading very well could have come in below the preliminary reading. The fact it came in higher shows a certain amount of resilience in the consumer sector.

Kevin Murphy

So this wasn't just a slight stabbing, this was something with a huge amount of force put into it.

Richard Morris

(Santa Fe) started out very slow because we had a lot of new players but our fly half, Hulbert, is from New Zealand, and his experience made a tremendous amount of difference.

David Barr

This is a way of ensuring that inflation will no longer chip away at the amount of deposit insurance coverage.

Graham Lustig

This is a really fantastic piece for us to acquire. It's fun, tongue in cheek in mood. It's a very important work of hers and it's a good challenge for the dancers. Tharp's style is not easy to capture. It looks simple, but . . . it's actually very exact and done with a tremendous amount of speed.

Steve Capus

This is a real commitment, and we are going to do this for a substantial amount of time. I'm not going to put an end date on it because there is no way of knowing how long this is going to be needed.

Ian Smith

This is a program we've been doing for years, but as a result of the storms, Congress passed legislation to waive some of the requirements so that more people could apply. It also increased the maximum income (limit) and the amount of the home that can be purchased, so it really broadens the program.

Robert Fitzgerald

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Paul Murphy

English is a language from the head and brain, Irish comes from the heart.

John Gay

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Michelle Paver

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Plato

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Horace

To know all things is not permitted.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Erin Morgenstern

To be rather than to seem.

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.