Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert Mead

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

Craig Thompson

I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.

Todd Akin

I will continue to work in Congress to reign-in the federal judiciary and return it to its constitutional function of applying the law, not legislating from the bench.

Heather Taylor

If you want a summer job, you need to start applying now. If you wait too long and don't apply until you're two weeks out of school, you don't have as much to offer.

Howard Shapiro

If you're applying for a loan, and there are mistakes on your credit report you didn't know about, it's going to take time to get that information removed.

Richard Dicker

In the face of provocative outbursts, the judge has to be firm but not trigger-happy in applying sanctions if fairness is going to be respected.

Fred McNair

It has taken years and years and years of applying his talent and his mental desire to just get to the major leagues. And it just shows how fragile it is. You can blow it fairly easily.

Michael Mills

Highly credentialed kids are applying with greater frequency to the same set of schools.

Matt Drudge

I'm not sure I'll ever hit that level and to the level of official stature that Bob Woodward had for his Nixon coverage, simply because I'm an outsider, ... But to the degree that the story now threatens a president, I do think it's on the same level as what Woodward and Bernstein did with their coverage and applying the pressure.

Mike Hall

I was looking for a fastball in and something I could drive. It was pretty much in the exact spot I took my warm-up swings.

Todd Simmons

I wouldn't be able to give an exact time, but I'd say if you start listening to a song on the radio, you're probably going to finish that song on the same light.

Mike McCormick

Jorge Posada is a genuinely loving man -- the exact opposite of this so-called 'fan,'" ()

Joe Clabby

I think it's a huge step in the right direction. It's exactly what they should be doing.

Kirk Smith

It always does increase in the winter, we don't know exactly why.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist. He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist, ... He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Todd Pletcher

He was a fresh horse and ran exactly the way we wanted him to.

Robert Dallek

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

James Hill

We've got a better proposal. We've got a fairer proposal.

Shashi Tharoor

This week's summit will be the single largest gathering of world leaders in human history. If world leaders rise to their responsibilities, the rebirth and renewal of the UN will be at hand. With its renewal, we will also renew our hope for a fairer and safer world.

Carly Simon

The punishment doesn't fit the crime. I've done everything I can to get him out, or at least get him a fairer trial.

Ed Townsend

We now have a three-way split in this constituency, which is a much fairer reflection of people's views.

Chris Nicolosi

We were trying not to be frivolous with the borough's money.

Douglas Coupland

Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

Russ Roberts

This is another sobering reminder of our litigation-crazed society. This suit is frivolous and it's totally without merit.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Van Cleve

When we met those families, the wedding planning all seemed a little frivolous at that point,

Freida Pinto

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Mark Neumann

If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say that's inappropriate, and they wouldn't be hired because that would mean they are promoting their agenda.

Amy Adams

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

John Whisenant

There's nothing like throwing it in the basket, ... I mean, that's why she's our hired gun.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Tom Smith

If (the company) hired permanent replacements, then they don't have to give the strikers their jobs back upon termination of the strike.

Mitch Kupchak

He said the same thing the first time we hired him. I hope the same thing unfolds.

Margie Feinberg

Jared Hunter no longer works for us and can never be hired here again.

Danny Way

Just to see them get hurt and run back up there and go down again, they're like Superman.

Scott Bergland

I think it hurt us not having him in the third period. If we had him, I think we would have won the game.

Dana Carvey

He can't tell you, but he didn't hurt anyone,

Ryan Herrs

He is such a presence. Losing Tommy hurt us more than anything else.

Dondi McGowan

He's a big guy, he moves well and he understands the game, so he can hurt you.

Tom O'Neil

His shyness is hurting him. He is pulling out of public appearances lately and it's been widely noticed. He's been pulling back when he should be campaigning.

Rich Irr

It didn't matter if it was regulation or overtime. It was going to hurt.

Manu Ginobili

It didn't hurt me. But the league makes its own decisions.

Claude Julien

It didn't hurt having Theodore back. He proved why he's a top goaltender.

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

R. Ingram

It's something they ought to be able to live with.

James F. Amos

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Paul Simon

As you look at the vote returns, I think the Senate this time ought to be able to pass a Constitutional amendment.

John G. Schmitz

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Jorge Cantu

I didn't want to risk it. I'm sure it would have been a risk if I was to keep playing. Let it heal. ...I'll be back.

Reid Hoffman

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Tullian Tchividjian

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

Robert Redford

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Will Smith

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Wayne Gretzky

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

Sarah Dessen

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Waylon Jennings

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Steve Davis

It's going to be a tough task as they are two very tough games,

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Oswald Chambers

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Julia Quinn

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.