Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Helprin

If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.

Ted Dumitru

This dispute is probably going to be resolved after we receive a letter from Safa (that accepts or rejects the demands from the players).

Andrew Roberts

This is a fascinating reform, since it comes right before the U.S. FASB -- as is probable -- accepts a request by the SEC to look into FAS87, the U.S. (pension) standard,

David Price

This is a big case because intellectual property is growing in importance for business. If the Supreme Court accepts the lower court's decision, it will make it difficult for companies to enforce their patents and raise worries that they will be liable on antitrust grounds.

Andrew Parker

It's only a matter of time before Hollywood accepts that there is no 'magic bullet' to combat peer-to-peer piracy and then starts to embrace it.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

There is no way out of the crisis unless the prime minister accepts that the key part of the problem is his own legitimacy.

Peter McCormick

This is the one that accepts the message. It switches off a civil war and it gives the party the summer to get over what they have just gone through." ()

Roe Hye

There is sufficient evidence that results were deliberately manipulated, and Professor Hwang accepts this at some level. We don't think that the data in the 2005 Science study was incorrect because of simple mistakes.

Charles Knight

Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Alan Autry

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

David Hockney

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

David Hume

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Jonathan Steinmetz

We are pleased to see results improve, but our enthusiasm is tempered by several factors.

Alan Sugar

If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.

Jarod Ingersoll

When we come to play with enthusiasm, and we're all together, we're a pretty good team.

Carlos Santana

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Brad Bird

I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Katherine Brown

We are at a disadvantage to the larger high schools. At times, I feel like we really haven't been completely prepared for college.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Charles Hermite

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Bipasha Basu

I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

Rien Long

When we come together and know our roles and play the way we should play, this is what happens.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Derek Roy

It seems like every time Ryan makes big saves we respond.

Joe Kinch

Ryan doesn't shoot many 3-pointers. He's a drive-and-pull-up guy.

Tommy Adams

Ryan and I play very well together. We know what each other can do, and we know one another very well.

Ryan Franklin

This is Ryan Franklin, fercryinoutloud! Get some hits!

Tom Bissell

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.

Ashton Moio

I like Ryan Gosling from the inside. I think he's a beautiful person, and then if you didn't have anything, I'd still be his friend.

Jeff Bean

To have Ryan do what he did and have him not go is tough.

Erik Hanson

On that return, I was getting kind of scared, ... So I'm screaming out his name, 'Ryan, Ryan ...'

Susan McBride

He was the yes-man to Tom Ryan. He had no thoughts of his own; whatever Tom Ryan told them, Kunkel would do it.

Jevon Kearse

It's not me at all, ... But we're winning and my teammates are getting sacks. That's really all I can say.

Jerome Bettis

My teammates put me on their back and wouldn't let me down.

Mike Eaves

He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.

Jim Haslett

I don't know that his teammates would actually want him back for what he did.

David Castillo

We want to let him know we're here for him as teammates and family.

Amanda Padilla

I just have to know I can make the shots. My teammates were there to get me the ball.

Vince Young

I'm not too much getting into the Heisman right now. It's all about my teammates right now. Whatever they want to say, let them talk, man.

Curt Shaw

When Jared got hot, his teammates got him the ball.

Joe Torre

I just wanted to find out if he still trusts me with this team.

Francis I

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Antonin Artaud

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.