Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Peter Lilley

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.

Tsubasa Ihara

The point for next week is whether or not the Nikkei will be able to break the 13,000 mark.

Jia Qinglin

The ongoing drive to build a harmonious society in China has provided valuable opportunities for the united front organizations and CPPCC to break new ground in their causes.

David Johnson

We are poised for breaking away from our competitors in the food industry, ... This strategic growth plan is designed to vault our company into the ranks of the world's renowned consumer goods companies, in terms of financial profile and market multiple.

Mike Johnson

We started pressuring them and they started throwing turnovers. We were just fast breaking and started coming back and gaining some confidence.

Mark Stern

We are looking forward to joining forces with Stan and Bruce to search the universe for these fearless competitors. At some point in their lives, everyone has wanted to break out and be heroic, and now is the chance for a chosen few to shed their every-day identities and truly express their inner superhero.

Terry Smith

We struggled at the line a little bit. We took what they gave us. We had a couple of break downs on defense and gave them a touchdown.

Robert Been

We stopped being able to talk to each other. And we found ourselves onstage all playing a different song at the same time. It was pretty pathetic and felt like it was just symbolic of where we were at. We ended up getting into this terrible violent fight and our tour manager had to put us in different corners just to break it up.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Charlaine Harris

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Andre Holland

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Rick Moody

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it

Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Eddie Izzard

I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.

Beau Willimon

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

Zeev Boim

We are making another turn by creating these zones, hoping the message will be learnt and that the launching squads will be stopped, but if there will be no alternative will have to turn it again.

Marvin Avery

We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.

Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Bertolt Brecht

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

Cass McCombs

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

C. S. Lewis

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Charlie Haden

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

Ken Burns

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Kevin Flanagan

We still think the fundamentals will come back and rise from current levels.

Jim Copeland

We're in pretty good shape, considering the current landscape.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

Charles Horton Cooley

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

Hal Rogers

There is no question that mistakes were made; however, it is currently hard to separate fact from fictions and reality from rhetoric,

Brene Brown

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Neil Peart

I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

Richard Engel

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

Tim White

It fills the gap in the fossil record there in Ethiopia.

Werner Herzog

It fills me with joy to see Dieter (Dengler) again.

Bob Greenly

He tackles very well in the open field. He fills on the run and is getting better at pass defense. He's big (6-1, 241), strong and mobile.

Kelvin Sampson

I just think he's a good player that fills a need for us. Every time he and I have talked, I left with a good feeling.

Chuck Schumer

Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us.

Jane Kaczmarek

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

Chris Carter

are out of step with modern conservation approaches.

Neil Strauss

The modern player is totally under the radar.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Karen Tandy

E-traffickers are just a modern way of saying drug dealers,

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

D. H. Lawrence

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Ato Essandoh

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Antonis Samaras

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Denis Leary

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

Dee Snider

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

Dee Dee Ramone

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

Chad Kroeger

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

Cassie Steele

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

Alan Perlis

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

Mickey Andrews

There's a void there right now. But we've got some potential.

Diane Setterfield

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

Bryant H. McGill

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

Boris Johnson

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

Antonio Porchia

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Siddha Nagarjuna

Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.

Alexander Hamilton

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.

David Hawkins

God is both manifest as the Totality and Allness of Creation and simultaneously unmanifest as the Godhead, the Infinite Potentiality and source or 'void-ness' prior to form.