Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Silva

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

Curtis Sliwa

For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small communities. We think we can be an antidote to that.

Pat Dorsey

It's only a partial solution, ... It's like they're saying, 'We'll still sell you poison, but we'll give you an antidote too.'

Kenneth Pollack

The theory that democracy is the antidote to insurgency gets disproved on the ground every day.

Steve Swanson

The NAFTA panel decision issued today is gravely flawed, and signifies a potential end to an important antidote in the U.S. lumber industry's efforts to counter the poison that is Canadian lumber industry practices. The U.S. Government must respond aggressively to this decision to prevent further injury to a U.S. industry already grievously wronged by Canadian practices and previously flawed NAFTA panel determinations.

Michelle Malkin

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

Lance Armstrong

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

Paul Kane

My family and loved ones are also a great antidote to this. They're incredibly important to me and I count myself a lucky man because of them.

Richard Tofel

Freedom is humankind's greatest, most ennobling idea, and its surest antidote to terror and tyranny.

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David Brock

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benazir Bhutto

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Bill Moyers

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

Chaka Fattah

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Bob Brown

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Donna Brazile

There is no place in our democracy for faulty voting equipment, long lines at the polls, untrained poll workers and any forms of chads,

Ed Walker

We want to see that he gets some national recognition.

Michael Specter

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Sasho Cirovski

The other team starts to feel, 'It's just not our day.' And our team gets that great save as a lift. I think that's what happened at that point.

Joe Tereshinski

Where Shock is now, he is light years away from where he was back then. He could play back then, but now he gets in there and he doesn't hesitate. He can play, and he knows that. That's what makes him so dangerous.

Alyn McCauley

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?

Ken Holland

Whenever this gets done, there's going to have to be a long healing process with fans, management and players.

Lorenzo Booker

When he gets to the league, people are going to wonder, 'Where did this guy come from? And we'll say, 'We knew it all along.

Bill Chavis

When he gets to college, I think he'll concentrate on academics. But he will still run. He has it in his blood.

Dan Hinote

When he gets the puck in those areas, he usually scores.

Wyclef Jean

There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.

Bill Murray

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

Bill Murray

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.

Travis Plunkett

We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy.

John Hughs

We're going to have to go in and rebuild it from the ground up because it went to seed before we got it. There are literally trees and shrubs growing up in the greens, and it's going to take a lot of work and money to get it back into shape.

James P. Hoffa

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

Kyra Sedgwick

Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we're trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.

Christopher Borick

As someone now that is trying to please a number of constituents, it's rather tricky ground for Senator Santorum to navigate,

Proverb

As solid as the ground we stand on

Joe Biden

the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000.

Donald Rumsfeld

insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years.

Donald Rumsfeld

The insurgency could go on for any number of years,

Rick Lynch

You will see, over the next several weeks -- we're not specifying any time -- specific military operations to target the insurgency in Tal Afar,

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Gary L. Francione

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Daniel Handler

Everybody has a theory.

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Stephen Jay Gould

The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

Albert Einstein

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.