Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

E. O. Wilson

Boundaries will be broken, ... and you're going to see more women in leadership roles on television and in real life. We simply want to do our part to hurry history.

Jason Adams

We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries is taken care of.

Stephen Hawking

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

Neil Gaiman

If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.

Ken Keyes

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Mark Connolly

Leave our boundaries alone. Let us solve our own problems.

Fran Allen

So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously productive period for all of us.

Hank Klumpp

I am still waiting for over four months for the map I requested showing the scientific boundaries that put my farmland into the Highlands Preservation.

Tom Schlesinger

More than any of his predecessors, he has gone public with every issue under the sun. I'm not sure there's a right answer, but I think it's worth talking about in a public forum what ought to be boundaries of the Fed governors' comments.

Tracy Mullin

This is going to be a great season for kids, ... Lots of hot toys out there. A lot of electronic toys, interactive toys. A lot of wonderful things for children.

Eva Simons

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.

Andrea Lewis

Now, the way in which we send that information will be by secure and encrypted electronic transfer.

Peter Lilley

Physical money possesses greater risk than electronic money or even gold.

John Ford

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

Bill Steiner

It's fast. It's easy. You don't run the risk of math errors. I can't think of a reason not to use electronic filing.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Robert Moog

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

Lance Dunn

We were the first to offer free electronic filing for everyone. We are making people an offer they can't refuse.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Edgar Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Aristotle

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Devin Ratray

After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution.

Demi Moore

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

John Bunting

We've seen some strange things happen at the end. This time around doesn't guarantee anything in the future, but this time around we didn't have any strange things happen.

Patrick Lavigne

(Cooperatives) were willing to pay the freight provided they could guarantee delivery. But now it's a service question, too.

Ken Warwick

We want a singer who's going to be around in 10 years' time, and the only way that you can guarantee that is to throw everything at them. We don't want a one-trick pony.

Kevin Kruger

We were thinking they were going to take us for granted. I guarantee you nobody in here thought we were going to win.

Gavin Miller

You can just about guarantee that Taylor is going to get 18, 19 or 20 points a night.

Chauncey Billups

We will be fine. I guarantee we will be fine.

Garry Garner

There's no guarantee that they will be hypoallergenic.

Peter Daniel

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite

Douglas Adams

In an infinite Universe anything can happen.

Ann Aguirre

His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

Thomas Huxley

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Swami Vivekananda

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Swami Vivekananda

God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?

Sri Aurobindo

He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.

Swami Vivekananda

The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.

Robert Browning

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Sandra Boynton

the sounds of the words are music in a way.

Alexander Hanson

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

Matt Jordan

The song was unreleased -- rejected. There should be a voice for music that doesn't get heard.

Sterling Knight

I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.

Max Schneider

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

Alex Ebert

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

Shane Harper

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

Adam Krier

I've always done music, since I was 13. I really don't know what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing music.

Semir Osmanagic

These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid. It is so obvious that the top of the blocks, the surface is man-made.

Sidney Crosby

The way we played the other night, then to come here and play like that, it's pretty obvious we weren't playing the same way.

Brian Eno

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Mark Atkinson

Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.

Russ Feingold

You are obviously very talented. And you also look healthy.

Quin Snyder

We've had some highs. This is obviously a low.

Jim Calhoun

Could he have played (Friday)? Probably. But obviously we didn't need him.

John Gamble

We are obviously relieved that so much work has resulted in a just and appropriate verdict,

Alan McCollough

We were obviously dissatisfied with the overall comparable-store sales decline,

Gregg Williams

Cod and halibut tend to co-mingle quite a bit.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Fran Townsend

Quite frankly, I think we did quite well.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Ashley Wagner

The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Stephenie Meyer

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Michael Birch

Resources have underpinned the strength of the market.

Michael Garcia

They are now fugitives. We will be using our resources to find them.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

James Lyons

Firefighting resources are stretched thin, ... We may be requesting resources from other countries.

Sue Densmore

You have more resources than you can probably imagine.

Brent Nelson

We're trying to make sure that the residents that are out there have the supplies and resources that they need, and that they are safe.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Ashton Kutcher

When you venture at life with curiosity, you can learn from anything. You learn from things that you could never maybe thought you could learn from. And when you actually step into the room with a lot of people who have an education in a classroom, that is very similar to other people's educations, you'll actually come with a unique perspective that could be a valuable perspective that creates an innovation that could change the world.

Arthur Koestler

No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.

Blaise Pascal

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

Dennis Haysbert

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

Deepak Chopra

When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

Dirk Benedict

We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.