Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willard Van Orman Quine

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

Manouchehr Mottaki

I predict that the irrational American view will not prevail in the Security Council.

Karen Harris

Upset is an understatement. He was irrational and verbally abusive.

Michel Onfray

Religion is an irrational construct.

Gregory Allen

She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations,

Orson Scott Card

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Yogi Berra

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

Kaiser Chiefs

I Predict A Riot / Sink That Ship

James Bell

You can't predict what's going to happen. We'll take it a day at a time and see what happens.

Kevin Kelly

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Larry Niven

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Julie Gerberding

This is an unstable situation right now. We're unable to predict where this will go.

Karen Thomas

You can never really predict who comes in or what they will need.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

James Pedderson

I think reason has to prevail in some of these instances.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Eric S. Raymond

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

Paul Sarbanes

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Gerhard Schroeder

Serbs who live here and who want to live here have the right to security and protection, not only for themselves but also for their property,

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

B. F. Skinner

The security for this is incredible. It's taken me by surprise, actually.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.