Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Cruise

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

Wayne Dyer

When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom.

Walter Isaacson

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Paul Johnson

We have to have a plan to try and counter that. We know that if we don't come and play really hard and with a lot of intensity that we'll get embarrassed. And we don't like to get embarrassed.

Adam McKay

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

David Gilmore

Japan increasingly needs a weaker yen to counter falling foreign demand and increased competitive pressures.

Bobby Knight

That's been our problem and when it happens to us we have not been able to counter it, and tonight we did. They did things we have not been getting done.

Lyle Gramley

There are a lot of worries circulating around about deflation, ... What the Fed is doing is saying we don't need to worry. If deflation happens, they will counter aggressively, and they have the tools to do so.

Sandra Shilstone

We've got to counter the idea in people's heads that we're still under water. We've got 800 restaurants open and we're ready for business.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Speedy Claxton

He's a great player and he made some difficult shots for them.

Jeff Ruland

He's got the heart of a lion. We have a difficult task in front of us.

Dave Carlson

We thought we've had it difficult until this time. We think it's going to get a little tougher.

Duffy Waldorf

To get a short iron into that green is great, because it's such a difficult green.

Tarja Halonen

I think we will see some good ideas, but as you have noticed already, the good ideas are difficult sometimes to put in practice,

George Boateng

I think before the game if you'd said 1-0 we would have taken it. It could have been better, but we've got a feeling of how they are and we've been in much more difficult positions. You can't say it's going to be easy -- but we're very confident.

Kristy Curry

I think it was difficult for us. The Indiana and the Ohio State (games), it kicked us right in the gut.

Warren Shiau

It has been difficult for IT administrators in the Microsoft world to transfer to Linux and get a lot of things done.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

William J. Clinton

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

William J. Clinton

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

William Gaddis

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

Sarah Palin

We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where - where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to - to our state

Richard M. Nixon

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Louis Freeh

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Brian Green

It's here for when we need it. This is another tool in our toolbox.

Andrew Lochart

Even when you've got the tools in place, it's something you want to be vigilant about.

Marshall McLuhan

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Marshall McLuhan

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

Renzo Rosso

E-mail has become a tool I can't do without.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Markus Gandler

I just don't understand what is going on here. We have nothing to do with Walter Mayer.

Susan Gibbs

The cardinal's understanding is that he'll be here another two years or so.

Nate Mendel

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.