Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Saddam Hussein

We have said with certainty that the embargo will not be lifted by a Security Council resolution but will corrode by itself,

Rick Whittington

Whether top-down or bottoms-up, the facts today point but in one direction: that of sustained, significantly above-trend growth at least through the end of 2000, with virtual certainty of vigorous growth through 2001 and even the likelihood for continued expansion though 2002 as well,

Andrew Maynard

To move from uncertainty to certainty we need good strategic research - and fast.

Benjamin Franklin

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

Marc Ganis

They need to line up broadcasting deals, mobilize a civic group to start marketing tickets and come up with a public-sector guarantee of ticket sales. The more certainty that can be put on the table, the more likelihood the Marlins will come.

George Tenet

This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed,

Malcolm Speed

This FTP protects the status of Test cricket, ensures that prestigious historical Test series can continue to be contested over four or five matches and provides certainty of planning for our members.

Jean Nidetch

All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.

Joe Pistone

They say we're playing in a former minor league stadium that has short dimensions. With our pitching and hitting, that's a plus for us.

Frank Thompson

The number of former Anaconda workers has really thinned out in recent years,

Skip Snow

They are pets or descendants of former pets. They don't occur naturally here.

David Woodward

There were some strained relationships between the former leadership of the shelter and some members of the commission,

Chris Squire

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

Mary Jo White

As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Jim Gulliford

We're looking for large payoffs. But they're done incrementally.

Nicholas Burns

We are (also) disappointed that Radovan Karadzic is still at large and not in the Hague,

Bible Bible

Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

Georg Brandes

About the same time as my legal studies were thus beginning, I planned out a study of Philosophy and Aesthetics on a large scale as well.

Steve Wright

It seems like a large number of providers can't find vaccine,

Grant Williamson

It's a stock which is not treading much volume these days, but it does move in quite large swings.

Capt. Ready

They tried to recruit some students from Dowling Middle School.

Mimi Rodriguez

It's an unwritten rule that the middle passenger should get two armrests.

Cameron Crowe

I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.

Lance Armstrong

There's a setup here and I'm stuck in the middle of it,

Jacqueline Roberts

It was the middle of the night. We waited for the ambulance for 45 minutes.

Ed Parkinson

It will be all or nothing. There won't be any middle road.

Giancarlo Fisichella

It was important for me to do my best. It was really hot. In the middle of the race you are tired. It's important to concentrate.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

Eugene Ionesco

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Bill Vaughan

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Nate Silver

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Mark Twain

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Mark Twain

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

David Eddings

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Colin Mochrie

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.