Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Galbraith

Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion

William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

Jon Nadler

We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.

Jennifer Grant

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

Matt Gallagher

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

George Dennison Prentice

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

bell hooks

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

Rajeev Sharma

Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Live and lie reclined/ On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.

Greg Elliott

We played just hard enough to win and just careless enough to lose.

Gary Brunner

We got careless in the fourth quarter. I think with what the girls had to go through the last 24 hours, it was to be expected that they would have letdowns at times.

Kirk Hanson

We got careless and got complacent. But we managed to hang on.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nick, on the Buchanans: ""They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made

Bruce Brockbank

Nick forgot to check his bag. It was just a careless mistake. We made a lot of them as a team today.

William Williams

I have had my dream -- like others -- and it has come to nothing, so that I remain now carelessly with feet planted on the ground and look up at the sky.

John Updike

Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.

Beth Moore

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37

Xun Zi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Ellen Key

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

Ruth Luban

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

Chris Oynes

The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.

Sung Sohn

The pause in economic growth and the drop in confidence will probably cause the Fed to tighten later rather than sooner. The earliest I can see them tightening is the end of June, and they could quite possibly wait until August.

Conrad Lautenbacher

The pathogens that cause disease have conditions in which they live, just like we do. We have to combine the physical data with what we know in the medical world.

Dave Grohl

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

John C. Calhoun

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

Brandon Flowers

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

Wole Soyinka

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Steve Burtt

That was the driving force. That was in all of our heads and we wanted to prove a point and end that curse.

Gary Horrell

That was a great learning experience for him. It's kind of been driving him.

John Hargreaves

We can't have a police officer on every single street making sure that people are driving to conditions,

George E. Brown

You and I are paying for these thefts. If the public thinks the market is driving up home prices, they're only partially right. It's also theft from construction sites.

Kevin Osnes

We're still trying to figure out how to stop him from driving to the basket.

Megan Fox

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Brett Favre

I would love to go in. I thought about getting to Tennessee tonight and driving in with some supplies.

Ally Condie

I love. The most reckless thing of all.

James Dickey

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Patrick Rothfuss

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Jolene Blalock

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

Lewis Carroll

The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

Rumi

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.

Richard Hammond

Im not reckless. I was never reckless.

Bob Kane

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Antonio Porchia

The fear of separation is all that unites.

Ed Mathey

After this weekend you will start to see some separation in the standings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Jennifer Capriati

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Buddy Bell

There's not a whole lot of separation between them, to be honest.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Condoleezza Rice

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

Maximilien Robespierre

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.