Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Seligman

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.

Matthew Stewart

At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

Glenn Mitchell

This campaign aims to highlight the consequences of making excuses rather than trying to quit,

Meir Sheetrit

This initiative is a real knife in the back ... because it aims to give international legitimacy to a terrorist group and we must oppose it with all our means.

Robert Bridges

For beauty being the best of all we know / Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims / Of nature.

Roxane Gay

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

Andrew Baird

It's a beautiful idea that green belts can stop a tsunami, and its aims are commendable. But it isn't true, and it won't work.

Adam Michnik

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

Ban Ki-moon

Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

Barbara Morgan

We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center. We've become a real central donation place.

Barbara Morgan

We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center, ... We've become a real central donation place.

William Bass

We've already got 13,000 homes planned in Central Oahu, and traffic is just unbearable. We'd like to see some requirements put on the development, now. Maybe they will have to make more concessions.

Pavich Thongroj

There are certainly problems in the scoring system. Still, these are not grounds to rush back to the central entrance exams.

Amanda Thompson

We're interested in hearing about supply chain and logistics ideas and problems from central Indiana manufacturers. We have resources to offer them in terms of the expertise of our professors and good students for internships and employment.

Charles Lee

Whether you know it or not, or like it or not, you are planning the future growth of Central Florida.

Don Aaron

We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.

Darrel Jones

We're still affordable. We're usually about half what they charge in central and south Florida.

Dannel Malloy

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Richard Blumenthal

The modified measures should deflate Microsoft's overblown rhetoric and apocalyptic predictions about the proposed remedies,

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Lance Berkman

There's not another starting rotation that measures up to ours. And then you get to the back part of the game, with (Brad) Lidge. That's who we are. We don't outslug teams; we outpitch them.

Hosni Mubarak

We will take much tougher measures in the area,

Viviane Reding

But if self-regulation does not work then we will have to take some measures ... We will have a look at this after six months,

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

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.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

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.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

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.