Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Karen Meredith

It would drive me insane to overhear the conversation of the guy in the next seat.

Rob Young

That turned a two-way conversation into a one-way discussion.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Alan Holmer

information to patients so they can go in and have a more informed conversation with their physician about new cures and new treatments.

Kevin Mattson

All we can do is open up a conversation.

Chris Nelson

The future's not going to be the past, but it can be better than it would otherwise be. You're not going to redevelop everything, but a sterling project here will spin off a sterling project there, and in 30 years you'll see a vastly different community. It's going to take conversation to have it all make sense when it's done, and conversation is tough. But we're getting better at that.

Minya Oh

Everyone is jumping on the stop-snitching bandwagon. It's all the rage. Even if you have a conversation with police, you'll be called a snitch.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

George Rupp

The result is that we are less prepared than we would like to be for what could be a very serious humanitarian emergency.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Pate

We'll need no less than 10 volunteers a day and no more than 25 a day, and they must be prepared to be self-sufficient for one to two weeks.

James Hardway

Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.

Kevin Browne

We've never done a release of Office in less than a year,

Annika Sorenstam

Naturally, I'm pleased with my season in many different ways and especially because I've played less tournaments and still won so much,

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

Romesh Wadhwani

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Vijay Mallya

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Gerald Veasley

Look at his face! He's serious about this! This ain't no joke.

Jane Pauley

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

Jeff Vandermeer

You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Bertrand Russell

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.