Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Buzan

I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head - 'mind map' is the language my brain spoke.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

Rick Warren

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

Ronald Reagan

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

Robert Jordan

An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

Vladimir Nabokov

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

Brian Roberts

Pioneers are the ones who get the arrows in their backs,

David Garrity

I have to give them credit. They are pioneers but are they leaders? And one might want to ask the question that isn't it true that pioneers die with arrows in their backs?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

Stanley Williams

They would try at every turn to discredit me, but I was game,

Norma McCorvey

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children." ()

Steve McClain

We gave him 10 points early in the game and after that we did a good job on him. He's a good player. You can't discredit what he did.

Tim Gunn

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Chris Garcia

People who wish to discredit him will hunt for possible blemishes on his record.

Rick Comley

Somebody just said to me and I think it's true, 'We just ran out of time,' and that's not to discredit Maine.

Oleg Vyugin

This restriction will be subsequently lifted and will not discredit investors because they can place 70% of their issue in depositary receipts.

Chad Kroeger

I was very upset, and for two months if I saw his (Dimebag's) picture somewhere I would get angry. It wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

Gerald Gray

He's not a malicious person. He needs help. He needs help.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

Henry Jordan

I think it's very unfortunate for him and the state. Obviously, I'm his opponent and I don't want to see him do well.

Walter Lippmann

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

Vince Lombardi

Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

Samuel Johnson

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Zinedine Zidane

My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.

E. Hurley

I know a lot of conservatives who were very upset with that because they wanted a showdown, they wanted the filibuster rule on presidential opponents abolished.

Adrian Fenty

I'm going to take all of my opponents seriously.

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Joe Jamail

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

Daniel Yergin

This has been pointed out ... even in thrillers.

Richard Carmona

It should be pointed out that we are a week out, and so far, so good,

Pete Carroll

This is the time of year that we've pointed toward. It's happened, and it's at the Rose Bowl, and it just can't get any better for the USC Trojans.

Craig Bruce

It pointed out to me that there was a problem.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Robert Cray

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

Russell B. Long

There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.

Russell Baker

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Russell Brand

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.