Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Henry Giroux

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged.

Karl Abraham

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

Henry L. Stimson

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

Daniel Kahneman

People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

Shirley Manson

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

N. T. Wright

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

Frank Press

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Tricia Helfer

Treating myself is more about just going out and having a great hike, or going on a long motorbike ride.

Willie Garson

String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?

Woodrow Wilson

They lived long that have lived well.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Tom Wood

I think we showed a little character. We kind of hung in there and that was nice to see. We missed some shots and made some funny choices with what we wanted to do with the basketball, but we managed to win the game.

Richard Bach

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Rose McGowan

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice,

Saul Bellow

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

Sarah Dessen

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Warren Farrell

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

Steve Vai

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.