Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Ashley Tisdale

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

Karel Schrijver

We have a much better insight into what causes the strongest, most dangerous solar flares, and how to develop forecasts that can predict an 'all clear' for significant space weather, for longer periods.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.

Joe Biden

Methamphetamine causes much more destruction in a much shorter period of time,

Jacqui Smith

It is disappointing that a stubborn minority of pupils, estimated at 8,000 in just 4% of secondary schools, remain determined to jeopardise their education and their futures through persistent truancy. While the causes of truancy are complex and challenging, we will focus on this minority who are responsible for much of unauthorised absence.

Edwards Deming

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

Brad Childress

It doesn't hurt. But it causes a splitting headache for the coaches.

Michael Retsky

We don't have all the answers. We think our work has pointed out that the mammography paradox is real. We are confident we understand what causes it. We have identified a problem -- a mechanism that is testable. We have not found a solution. But identifying the problem is a major step in the right direction.

Matt Myers

Today, they spend far more money plastering convenience stores with their imagery, paying convenience store owners to put cigarettes near where kids will see them.

Rand Paul

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.

Johnny Mathis

Little did I know the excesses this life can lead you into. I used to smoke and drink. I gave up cigarettes 35 years ago, drinking six years ago.

Benny Hill

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Augusten Burroughs

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

J. G. Ballard

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

Arturo Toscanini

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

Laurent Fournier

We stayed 30 minutes in the corridor, ... We were then put in two small rooms with stewards smoking cigarettes next to us and (radio station) NRJ conducting interviews 10 meters away. It's not an excuse (for the defeat), but it's very annoying.

Luis Gutierrez

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

Barack Obama

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Clayton Christensen

The ability to share the Gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.

Johnny Damon

That was some really strong stuff he put in his body. He's had to live with it. He's put earplugs in. That's something that goes with testing positive when he strongly denied it.

David Baxter

That was a huge shot, and defensively I thought she played solid all game. She obviously did a good job of anticipating it, stepped up and denied the pass.

Melanne Verveer

We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.

George Pruitt

While you will hear, and the public will hear, a lot about institutional pains, these issues are not about institutions. They're about people that will have post-secondary education denied to them.

Charlie Wi

I don't think I denied him. He's such a solid player. Even on the last putt, I thought he was going to make it and that I would go into a playoff. Luckily, it turned out my way.

Diane Feinstein

I think it's a dimension of his character. He hasn't denied them. Women have come forward.

Joey Thomas

I ain't going to lie - I denied (having the symptoms) because I want to play. If I could do it again, I'm going to deny it again.

William J. Mayo

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Patty Stonesifer

The polio-eradication initiative has shown the world that even in the poorest countries, widespread and debilitating disease can be defeated.

Benjamin Rush

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

Vivi Widyawati

We have always acknowledged pornography as a disease that must be eradicated, but not through a repressive law.

Thomas Mettenleiter

It has nothing to do with the spread of the disease or the threat of an epidemic.

William Shakespeare

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

Julie Hall

It does show how one person, one case, can potentially spread the disease to a considerable number of people,

Cindy Gross

We received a report from a medical provider. It is a required reportable disease.

Roger Cook

To grow a lawn that greens up naturally each spring and that resists drought and disease, you need to foster a strong root system.

Virginia Postrel

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.

Chuck Grassley

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

Jerry Maren

She was one of the all-time money makers for the studio, ... She use to tell us in the morning she could get anything we needed.

Franklin Knight Lane

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

John Rother

We just wish the same kind of self-restraint could be true for the makers of brand-name drugs.

Orson Scott Card

The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

Eva Zeisel

I am a maker of useful things.

Sathya Baba

Women are the makers of the home,the nation and the world. You are the mothers who shape the generation.

Stephanie Rollings

There will have to be policy makers in the room. These are serious discussions.

William Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

Benjamin Franklin

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Craig Johnson

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

A. R. Ammons

To be saved is here, local and mortal

Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

E. B. White

No trial has ever shown before a reduction in severe mortality with a new anti-malarial drug.

Marc Almond

I'm always aware of mortality.

Euripides

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

John Magnie

We realized we really do better when when we're all together.

Tyler Houwelingen

We realized there were some shortcomings with the model. I thought we'd have the whole thing done right now.

Greg Devers

We realized there was no way we would be able to win it at that point.

Courtney Lewis

We realized that we had to be the leaders.

Nate Whitaker

We realized that most of the breakdowns were things that we were doing. It wasn't because they had more talent than us.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Bill Vaughan

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

Bill Vaughan

Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

Bill Hicks

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

Mike Marsden

I do not support a total smoking ban.

David Sedaris

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Charles Dickens

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

Charles Lamb

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Charles Lamb

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Bill Shaw

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

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Adrienne Rich

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Ben Elliot

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.