Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

John Dawson

The people are very nice. They're friendly. It's like you don't meet a stranger at these events because you've got Elvis as your common ground.

Bruce Braley

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Dennis Ross

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Noah Feldman

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.

Gore Vidal

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

Carrie Brownstein

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

Bertrand Russell

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

Bertrand Russell

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Timothy Noah

If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves.

William Stone

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

Rick Lynch

We have a very deliberate process on how we work with those detainees,

Patricia Bradshaw

We have not, as a Department of Defense, in a deliberate way institutionally tried to manage our Senior Executive Service members. We have operated in a very decentralized way.

Mark Fogel

We started off the game with the 9-0 run and then the kids were very deliberate and executed everything on offense we had to.

Robert Grant

The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely

Joanna Scott

When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.

Gilbert Ryle

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as 'the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine'.

Juan Enriquez

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end of the court, but I don't like that. There has to be dignity at the end of the game.

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end, but I don't like that. There's got to be some dignity at the end of the game. I've got to talk to him about it. I didn't like that.

Bob Reed

One of the keys to it is treating everybody with dignity and respect - he treated all of his employees the same.

Rick Carlisle

I don't think it shows much dignity to make excuses after you get your butts kicked. It was like they're everywhere and our feet were stuck in mud.

Eleanor Catton

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

John Bacon

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

John Bacon

It comes down to the way you treat people, ... When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Hebrew Proverb

He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity

Igor Ivanov

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

Kurtis Cooper

We will respond through diplomatic channels. None of the U.S. attaches was or is engaged in inappropriate activities.

Nabil Sha'ath

We are in support of democratic, political, diplomatic process that would implement resolutions and save the people of Iraq. We want to make that clear, and I think some of the demonstrations did not make that clear.

Alexander Downer

We hope that it's going to be possible to get back on to the diplomatic path before too long,

John Koskinen

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

Haim Ramon

I have many doubts we can reach a joint diplomatic platform, but I think we need to try.

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

Donald Rumsfeld

to embark on a diplomatic initiative to work with North Korea to see if they wouldn't reverse their position of violating these three or four agreements.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Al Smith

U.S. History, World History, Geography, Law, Economics and Psychology.

Semyon Vainshtok

We have overfed Europe with oil. Every economics textbook says that surplus supply lowers prices. But we can't reduce supply -- all our exports are oriented toward Europe.

Leila Janah

I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

Andrew Shields

You learn about economics and mass produce little things to make a profit.

Menachem Begin

His work is important and a major contribution to the world of economics and to theory,

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Mitchell Cohen

The problem with vaccines is not a new problem, ... For the last decade, we have had reduction in the number of vaccine manufacturers. ...The issue comes down primarily to economics ... Profit margins are small.

Benjamin Disraeli

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

Jean-Cyril Spinetta

The pilots are responsible, realistic, qualified people, who know the (state of the) economy,

Brian Wilson

Most are supportive before they look at the economics.

Nate Mackinnon

It doesn't look like you need physical education teachers to be highly qualified. Or health or home economics.

Lee Loong

We have to remake Singapore. Our economy, our education, our mind-set, our city. It must be a totally different Singapore. Because if its the same Singapore today, we're dead,

Jim Shabi

We don't get all the headlines up here, but it's a good economy.

Manmohan Singh

Positioned as we are, geographically and economically, India has a pivotal role in the region,

Daniel Jester

From the tone of his testimony today, it's obvious he sees a pretty strong economy.

Paul Hansen

Fortunately, most emerging markets are in relatively good shape economically.

Chris Ahearn

Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So instead of the stock market, people were investing in their homes.

Yahya Jammeh

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Bill Clinton

The advocates for either side are under enormous pressure, and, of course, they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time.

Hannu Toivonen

That was a game that was up for grabs for either team. It's a tough loss. We have to learn not to take that many penalties.

Yannick Noah

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Yannick Noah

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

Brigitte Boisselier

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Alvin E. Roth

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Anaxagoras

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Jessica Dickson

We have come a long way with this program. But there are still plenty of places that we need to go.

Thad Cochran

You just couldn't be in two places at once,

Mark Smith

Wiltshire remains one of the safety places to live in the country.

Scott Hatteberg

Those are two places we haven't played well, ... so we're really going to have to buckle down.

Drew Brees

To have a better road record with all the places we played is ridiculous.

Tom Foley

Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq.

Granth Sahib

Whatever He places within them, that is what prevails, and so they outwardly appear.

Keith Coleman

We try to put them in places where they'll be useful and unobtrusive.

Diane von Furstenberg

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Bel Powley

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Ben Lawson

The purpose is to get the idea of throwing boomerangs in the university sphere.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Timothy Griffin

I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to rest.

Steve Jobs

There has been a lot of speculation and a lot of rumors and I get to end them today,

Brandon Cox

I'd never really been in the spotlight with rumors like that. That's part of being in the SEC and part of being the quarterback.

Fadel Gheit

Rumors and speculation have taken over the market.

Guus Hiddink

These rumors are there, but I'm still with PSV.

Carmelo Anthony

I can't worry that we didn't get him. It was rumors all along.

Mark Prior

There have been a lot of rumors in my short career.

Simon Cowell

We don't want to spread any rumors here.

Simon Cowell

It was dark, so she didn't do it very well. We don't want to spread any rumors here.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Caitlin Moran

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

John Oliver

When he (Shaw) wrote 'Pygmalion,' he was really making a statement about social classes.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.