Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Bernbach

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

William Vickrey

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

Nelson Mandela

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

Mary Roach

If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

Martin Heidegger

Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?

Muhammad Ali

This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose

Pope Benedict XVI

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

Marc Andreessen

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

W. Somerset Maugham

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

Wyclef Jean

My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

Wyclef Jean

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

William Penn

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

Zinedine Zidane

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

Kevin Whately

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.