Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Thomas

That would be a disaster because there would be no pressure on anyone to move forward. In the absence of broadly defined and accepted standards, we have to find a way to interconnect systems while at the same time continuing to refine and define standards.

Marguerite Gardiner

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Neil Buckholtz

This research is intriguing because it associates genetic risk for dementia with twins' cognitive deficits, even in the absence of dementia. The differences in cognitive deficits between identical and fraternal twins are also important, suggesting that the twins who were more similar genetically had the greater risk.

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Kelly Smith

Consumers will be able to request information on all ethnic restaurants within, say, a one-mile radius or eight-mile radius of where they're going to be. They could ask what nearby restaurants are open at certain hours that accept MasterCard. One could imagine being able to identify a child-friendly, moderately priced restaurant within five blocks, open now when you have a car full of hungry kids.

Sergio Aguayo

You have clear alternatives. This is new. The question is how far will the candidates go to win, and will the losers accept the results?

Chris Coleman

We all make mistakes and I have had referees admit them before. But when you get something wrong that badly I am not sure I could accept it. It was just unbelievable, not even close.

Gholamhossein Elham

There is no reason for us to accept the suspension of our research activities nor to renounce our rights which conform with international rulings.

Gil Garcetti

There is no legal authority for the chief to thumb his nose at us -- and I won't accept it, ... I won't tolerate it.

Thomas Hill

We have a criminal system that makes mistakes. If you accept that proposition, that means you have to be prepared for the inevitability that some are sentenced to death for crimes they didn't commit,

Jason Kello

To assume we're going to have our head over a barrel and be forced to accept some sort of compromise bill is not the position we find ourselves in right now. The moratorium remains in effect. There is nothing new; the only thing new is this tendency to provide an alternate plan to one that wants to drill closer to Florida's shores.

James Rubin

to accept the Rambouillet accords, including both their political and civilian, and military implementation elements.

David Hewson

Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.

Dino Duva

It's unbelievable!!! Tickets have been available for less than three weeks and in the laziest part of the dog days of summer. Who would have known that these tickets would be moving like this.

Todd Bradley

This starts to bring out the promise of corporate applications available anytime, anywhere.

Patrick Henry

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

The Wizard

feel a certain sense of rejection and inadequacy. I was doing everything I was told to do. It couldn't all have been because I had the wrong lapel pin. I just felt like I couldn't get in. I could not make myself visible.

Ted Scambos

Feedbacks in the system are starting to take hold. The consecutive record-low extents make it pretty certain a long-term decline is under way.

Steve Francis

Everything is cool at my house. My daughter wasn't feeling well. As a man you have to do certain things and still be able to perform at your job.

Daniel Lipman

The response we've gotten and continue to get from certain elements of the gay community is just startling to me.

David Tom

There was a chance if it was real close to a certain area, they couldn't fix it. My nurse has the same problem, and they could fix her. But I was lucky. And it's 95 percent I'll never have another problem.

Herb Alpert

There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.

Sam Phillips

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

John A. Logan

There's still a lot of skepticism about the SST, and it's not at all certain that Congress will pass a national tax law.

Eula Biss

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Robert Williamson

It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.

John Burroughs

It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.

Adrian Benepe

This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back. We unpaved a parking lot and put up a paradise.

Girish Tyagi

There were no major surprises and that actually is good news, given that the recent surprises for the sector have been of the wrong kind.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Keith Tucker

They haven't given up, ... That is what I like about them.

David White

Our victim got all but $250 back of the $90,000 she had given him. The other lady got about one-third of her money ($50,000) back - that was all we could trace. It's quite unusual to get money back - it's usually gone but we got lucky.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Amy Tan

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Rick Nielsen

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

Thomas Paine

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Thomas Schelling

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Thomas Sankara

Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

Thomas S. Monson

Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Thomas Sowell

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.