Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.

Brian Williams

I'm still kind of baffled as to why we haven't been at the top of the league.

James Gleick

I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.

Laurie Graham

I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.

Rachael Woods

I'm baffled by how phenomenal the conditions are right now. Since March 1, we've had only three half-day breaks in the snowfall. This is one of the snowiest periods that I can recall up here in March.

Paul Brooks

They baffled us. We try to simulate the zone in practice, but I guess we can't do it as well as they can.

William Reinsch

It just baffled me and drove the business types crazy. The stuff that OFAC was doing was important and made a big difference to their businesses, particularly if they got caught in the wrong place.

Lord Byron

For Freedom's battle once begun, / Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, / Though baffled oft is ever won.

Richard Fisher

This is why I think so many economists have been so baffled by the length and strength of the current expansion and the non-inflationary prosperity we have enjoyed over the past two decades.

Jonathan Ogden

Strength is important. But the No. 1 thing is knowing your opponent. If you know your opponent and what they like to do, and you try to take that away from them, force them to another move, then that's half the battle right there.

Charles Studd

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Carl von Clausewitz

Battles decide everything.

Brit Hume

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Ben Harper

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Becky Flynn

We found ways to battle and battle, but not to pull out wins. We won one big game and thought we were turning the corner, but we lost some close ones down the stretch.

Gary Hatch

This was a big game. It has been a good battle this week between two teams.

Dwight Freeney

You double (team) me all day and you double Robert (Mathis) all day, the more doubles you deal out means somebody is going to get a single. We won the battle and we were outnumbered.

James Klein

There's going to be a lot of back and forth, charges and counter-charges. There's going to be a number of legal battles over the legitimacy of the elections. So there are just so many issues that have not been answered, it's very difficult to see what's going to happen in the future.

Stephen King

...it was more like bleeding than crying.

Matthew Pearl

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

Dr. Harris

We as stroke experts have to ask, what is the devil in front of us? What is the higher risk? Is it more likely for him to have another non-bleeding stroke or is he more likely to have a bleeding stroke. The odds were that he would have another non-bleeding stroke, especially with the hole in the heart.

Plato

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

B. C. Forbes

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

John Parsons

Even though he never said anything; you could just tell,

Doris Day

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.