Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giraldus Cambrensis

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

Wendell Berry

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

William Kamkwamba

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

Clive Thompson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Emmitt Smith

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Elizabeth Warren

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Chen Shui-bian

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Charles Pena

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

Twyla Tharp

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

Brittany Snow

I have to shave every day. If I don't, it's sort of like going to bed without brushing your teeth for me - but I'm a crazy person so maybe that's why.

Patti Smith

You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.

Mark Batterson

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

Theo Zwanziger

Julius Hirsch had been a national hero but from one day to the next (he) was treated like an insect. We want to come to terms with our past and not just brush over all this.

Jim Holland

We get two or three guys a year coming in here with stories of how they got peppered by their hunting buddies. Hunters lose track of each other, or a shot passes through some brush and hits someone on the other side.

Charles Thomas

I won?t have to brush my teeth or floss tonight. Any food trapped in my teeth got knocked out.

Constance Zimmer

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

Capt. McDonough

We do, within the city limits, have a lot of dry brush next to structures.

James Cox

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

C. J. Mahaney

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

Charles Horton Cooley

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

Angela Merkel

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

Mark Pearce

That's even in effect a crap-shoot to some extent, because you're dealing with springs, currents and those sorts of things where you might have 6 inches of ice in one spot and you walk 20 feet, it'll be down to 2 inches,

Karen Walker

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

Kris Kristofferson

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Max Heindel

In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely vegetate - in all such creatures, the currents of the desire body flow outward from the liver.

John Williams

It's said that it takes elements like this to remind us there are still dangerous currents out in the community.

Dave Wilson

That will have ripple effects throughout the health-care system, especially those individuals in Nova Scotia that are waiting for surgeries.

Heather Boushey

We need to know what the effects of these programs are on American families.

Ron Dittemore

We've done all that we can think, as far as testing in a one-G environment and simulating the effects of our (shuttle) maneuvers on the mast. But there is that element of risk that there may be something we didn't get, that we don't quite understand.

Peter Jackson

There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.

Peter R. Grant

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Scott Ransom

We know in the past that there are effects that have hurt our surveys.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Robert Winston

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

James Cameron

I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Jim Frederick

Our restaurant is operated by our family, for families.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Josh Lewsey

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Dr. Seuss

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

Therese Lisieux

One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.

Marc Jones

This was a very pleasing win for us.

Bill Atkinson

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.

Joshua Sasse

As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.

Bible Bible

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

David Cameron

It's better than I expected. It's a very pleasing result.

John Gall

It was a very pleasing tournament for me.

Hank Haney

I know it comes with the territory. The only person I'm worried about pleasing is Tiger.

Angie Everhart

For the most part, I do not go out all that often, so it varies.

Deepak Chopra

Biologically I'm 25, chronologically I'm 53, psychologically it varies.