Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Kreindler

He was a fairly high-ranking officer in the Libyan Intelligence Agency and his activities appeared to have, and can be reasoned to have, government involvement.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.

William Taylor

He seemed to have orchestrated a lot of the activities going on, or at least was a main player,

Liu Jingmin

To ensure Green Olympics not only needs the government support and the efforts of BOC OG, but also depends on the participation of the public. The release of the logo will help to promote the various educational activities organized by BOCOG to encourage citizens to live a green life, to take part in green activities and to support the Green Olympics.

Matthew Lotti

Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.

Ali Yunesi

Our nuclear activities are open and very transparent. Our military activities are all legal,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nuclear activities are fully legal, and they will never be used for military purposes,

Thomas Russo

Investors are unable to get a clear view on 2006 because there's so much noise in the numbers. There's the competitive environment in Spain, there's the impact from Kraft activities and there were currency swings. It doesn't in any way impact the progress made on the domestic product.

Cai Zixing

Involving our kids in the market economy and various commercial activities too early will have a negative impact on their healthy growth, and the pursuit of fame and money will put them under great pressure and even lead to mental trauma.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Charles Duelfer

I also have insisted that the report include as much basic data as reasonable and that it be unclassified, since the tragedy that has been Iraq has exacted such a huge cost for so many for so long.

Dave Magarity

I always came back to the one basic premise that I really wanted to coach this team, I really wanted to be with this group. I wanted to follow what we did and continue this job, continue this journey with these kids.

Julio Lugo

He wants to make fundamentals basic to us. He wants everybody to play the way you're supposed to play.

Jess Bosque

He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in shape. We gave him rest and it basically went away.

Mike James

He couldn't be stopped tonight. He basically beat us by himself.

Ray Lewis

He didn't mean any disrespect. He was just basically saying he wasn't happy. Some people aren't happy with their job or their wife, they say it. That's all it was, him voicing his opinion. He has a right to do that.

H. Hart

He denied fighting birds here or being involved in fighting birds, ... but he basically stopped talking about it once we showed him what we had found.

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

Jim Calhoun

He is without question one of the toughest human beings I've ever met in my life. He's streetwise and loveable all at the same time.

Kate Millett

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Nhat Hanh

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.

Mark Frauenfelder

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

Orson Card

Humans mate with beings who challenge their supremacy. They have conflict between mates, not because their communication is inferior to ours, but because they commune with each other at all.

John Shanagher

He has to hear that we're human beings and that our father, son, mother, whoever, were human beings.

Edward McKendree Bounds

In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man's redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans.

Bertrand Russel

In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation

William Roderick

I'm mostly disturbed 'n stuff by people saying, 'Shut up, we don't want to hear you, you freak.' That would bother anyone, ... You'd be offended, too. We have the right as human beings to share our opinions.

Tony Rode

He's actually inside and, at one point, comes out of the vehicle pretty much on fire. He was burning on his arms, legs and hands.

James Hansen

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.

Will Durant

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Melissa Doi

Please, God, it's so hot. I'm burning up.

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.

Sharon Brown

It took plenty of time and burning the midnight oil and a lot of telephone calling to get everyone together,

Seabo Gaeganelwe

They were threatened with the burning of their houses.

Margaret Bourke-White

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

Johnnie Carr

She lit the match that started the flame that is burning today.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jeffrey Lichtman

He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan.

Dan Johnson

Heck yeah I knew I was playing. That's the only reason I changed my pants.

David Anders

The only thing that's changed is they've come out and made it very clear and public. They're being very vocal.

John Cleveland

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

Gianfranco Pasquino

Had Berlusconi not changed the electoral law, he would have won. Next time Berlusconi ought to have better consultants.

Justin Kirk

Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog was - his name first was Bear, but then it changed to Big, and he sort of looked like Old Yeller. And then we also had a three-legged dog named Foxy, who we found because her leg was in a trap.

Ticha Penicheiro

He's a great coach, he changed this franchise around. He's a competitor, we're a mirror of him. Defense wins championships, and look at where we are right now.

Rob McClure

I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.

Michael Dell

It also means their job is constantly changing because technology is changing and this is a customer-driven industry. So our employees need to be flexible and driven. They are going to always be in training.

Kwame Kilpatrick

Other than the Rev. Martin Luther King, no other person has had such a role in changing (the African-American) vision of our community and our country,

Debbie Mills

Parkinson's is not something you want to handle alone. You need to go to support groups, talk about what works for you and find out what other people are doing. Get information. Things are changing every day.

Michael Strauss

Investors are relieved that he's continuing the same tone and isn't changing things.

Trey Anastasio

In your heart you feel like you're doing the right thing, because, ultimately, honesty is your gift to these people who are willing to listen to your music, ... Changing is part of that. You've got to change, and that's hard.

Steven Reed

In terms of changing the LDP, Koizumi has done an awfully good job.

Steven Reed

In terms of changing the LDP, I think Koizumi has done an awfully good job. He's getting straight A's.

Toshihiko Fukui

Interest rate cycles globally are gradually changing but we expect no great impact upon the global economy.

Ken Buck

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

Stavros Dimas

The EU is committed to international efforts to combat climate change, which requires that we meet all our reporting obligations.

Brian Dunbar

It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other species, future generations and the health of the planet.

Vivian Campbell

Slang' was a really stripped-down, live-sounding record. But this time, we wanted to return to our sort of sound, because the climate in the industry was warming up to it, ... We put on 'Hysteria' and 'Pyromania' and took our sonic cues from those albums.

Peter Lilley

I am a global lukewarmist.

Prince Charles

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

James Lovelock

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Jennifer Robinson

It's not something that's unique to McGill; it is out there. And in order for us to ensure that we have a climate of mutual respect and understanding operating in all our activities, we have to be much more pro-active.

Ray Slagle

This is the most small-town climate that you could probably find.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Rodney Carrington

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

Rod Serling

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

William Arthur Ward

The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.

William Hazlitt

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Wyclef Jean

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody is the essence of music.

Richard Hulbert

It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.

Lee Iacocca

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Sylvia Plath

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Omar Bongo

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Tim Horan

None of the global joint ventures have been able to execute.

Monica Crowley

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.

William Gray

Small sea-surface temperature changes, there's no theory why they should make for more storms. Observations verify that. When we look back in a global point of view, in the last thirty years, there hasn't been a pick up in storms.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Toussaint Tyler

He talks to you like a normal human being and tells you what he wants you to do.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Sun Yuxi

In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall development of China's human rights.

Adrian Molina

Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.

Stephen Evans

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Richard P. Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Whately

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

William S. Burroughs

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Woody Allen

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Kenneth R. Miller

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Albert Einstein

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Albert Einstein

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is.

Albert Einstein

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

Don DeLillo

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Very dangerous things, theories.