Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vitruvius

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Robert Hayes

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,

David Carson

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

David Eddings

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

V. S. Naipaul

If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

Patti Davis

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Robin S. Sharma

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

Tom Bunnell

Today, the campaign begins speaking directly to voters about Conrad Burns' record of delivering for Montana. Montana is a better place to live, work and raise a family because of Conrad Burns.

William S. Hart

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

Clint Stretch

The political problem is that a lot of the people who will benefit from the AMT being repealed don't know they have the problem yet.

Li Rongrong

The overseas markets are more regulated and Chinese companies can benefit and learn to fine-tune corporate structure and governance. So listing overseas first and then coming back to list will also benefit the domestic stock market.

D. James

The overall solution is aimed at fast-moving products. We will tune the system for others later, but the initial benefits case had been made on inventory savings, and savings in the distribution centers on products that we order often.

Dr. Bhatt

The overall findings were negative, but a benefit was seen in patients with established cardiovascular disease.

Conor Oberst

I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.

Bee Wilson

The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.

David Friedman

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Thor Heyerdahl

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Ice T

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

Ivana Milicevic

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

Gina Bellman

There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.

Donald Trump

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

Zadie Smith

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Rachel Cusk

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

Michael Eisner

We have a great new CEO. I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the creation of product.

Michael Eisner

We have a great new CEO, ... I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the creation of product.

Robert Winston

We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.

Rig Veda

Who knows truly? Who here will declare whence it arose, whence this creation? The gods are subsequent to the creation of this. Who, then, knows whence it has come into being?

Sorin Cerin

Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?

Greg Graffin

I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions. And evolution, the evolutionary narrative, helped provide some of that for me.

Claire Buchan

The president always indicates he's still not satisfied, that job creation is not yet where it needs to be.

Farrell Quinlan

We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage will actually hurt job creation and the very people it's supposed to help, the entry-level workers.

Ben Macklin

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

O. Henry

We're prepared. We've got three sanders (dump trucks that spread sand to provide traction on icy roads), our trucks are loaded down, ready to go, fueled up.

Jim Press

We're looking at maybe 4, 5 percent growth, fueled by some of our new products. Next year should be another good year for everybody.

Travie McCoy

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.

Chua Sock Koong

The mobile Internet is growing, fueled by increasing smartphone penetration and better networks.

Jim Press

We think our growth will be fueled by these new products.

Mike Rhodin

I know there's a lot of speculation, mostly fueled by our competitors, that there's a major migration in the future for our Notes/Domino customers. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Andrew Busch

(South Korea's announcement) comes on the heels of Russia saying the same thing. This has fueled speculation that Japan may do the same,

John McLaughlin

They're much harder to detect. They can be moved more readily, and are more portable of course, and they can be launched with much less notice and less time than a liquid fueled rocket,

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Dalai Lama

Nothing is permanent.

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

Albert Carlson

Obviously, some temporary stuff would have been pulled out, but anything permanent would have stayed, and we would have benefited from that.

Larry Sabato

It's permanent now in peoples' minds. It will be in his obituary.

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Charles Elachi

We really do have a permanent presence around that planet.

Immanuel Kant

The only thing permanent is change.

Mike Ditka

Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

George Taylor

We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.