Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Jennifer Kerns

The system was tested, the memory card was tested, but the source code was never tested. We believe that the source code is an integral part of that voting system.

Jim Sutcliffe

The Swedish mergers and acquisition practice is quite different from the UK. They believe in putting the offer into the public domain before recommending it.

Rick Woods

The suspect continued to flee on foot while firing his firearm. We do not believe the individual fired on police officers or at a specific individual at this time.

Mark Davis

The surgeon did not believe that surgery was necessary as Ceri's symptoms are resolving themselves,

Mark Bradford

The three occupants that we were looking for we believe we have, in fact, found.

Shawn McDowell

The Sullivan game gave us something to believe in. It was a very satisfying win. I told the kids after the game I was speechless and I usually always have something to say.

Paul Hoolahan

The Sugar Bowl cup, the original cup, believe it or not, was still there. We quickly left with that.

Jerry Bell

The speaker of the House predicts it'll pass, and I'd like to believe the speaker.

John Subers

The theme is, 'We're the PGA Tour, we're supporting New Orleans, we look forward to seeing you, we look forward to coming back and we believe in you. We're not trying to script it, but picture six weeks of commercials, with 15 to 20 players saying they're coming to New Orleans. We think it will make an impact.

Dennis Ross

These cards have not exactly given Syria a very strong hand, ... The more the regime has tried to play the cards, the weaker they've become.

Frank Thomas

I send him a list of the cards I need.

Martin Gleeson

We don't recommend that you refuse to pull over. Drivers who have doubts should insist on seeing the officer's shield and ID card to be sure. Every police officer carries them and will produce them if asked.

Linda Sherry

You may have to contact the issuer two or three times, but keep plugging away until your credit report shows that the card has been closed.

Curtis Arnold

You have to think that economies of scale make this more plausible. We've created a behemoth in the card industry through this merger, and things like this seem like a natural progression going forward.

Linda Sherry

To me, having a good card with a low rate that doesn't zap you with late fees is a better way to go than all of the gimmick cards.

Joe Ruggiero

There is also a personal touch. The consumer gets a card from the person making the furniture when the piece is started.

Debbie Wang

There is so much uncertainty involved. You just have a wild card pretty much everywhere you look.

Martin Jol

The red card killed the game. And I don't think the decision was correct. I think he was only trying to protect himself.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Vladimir Nabokov

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Chamfort

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

Brian Cashman

I have no knowledge of that being in doubt.

Khalil Gibran

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Malcolm X

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Mahatma Gandhi

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

Johannes Kepler

O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Vin Scully

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

Stephanie Mills

Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.

Rumi

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Tom Berenger

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

Todd Helton

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Shane Claiborne

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

John von Neumann

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.