Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Schmidt

It didn't have anyone's prints on it, ... because the rubber grip wasn't conducive to prints. We had an expert from the crime lab testifying about why there were no prints.

Bob Wallace

There is ample parking for games. But there's not a lot of surface-lot parking, which is necessary and conducive to tailgating.

Jim Hendry

He has a lot of intangibles that are conducive to success. He has the personality and makeup to handle tough spots. He didn't shy away from difficulty during a tough rehab.

Toshihiro Wada

The global economy is in good shape. The environment is conducive to taking risks for now, so we'll remain overweight in stocks and underweight in bonds.

Jiang Zemin

conducive to the development of the China-U.S. relationship.

Elizabeth Gilleran

They decided to look for a location that would be more conducive for a site. They were just going to lease the space but would have to make several improvements to the interior. Due to the cost involved, they wanted to look elsewhere, where they would not have to make as many alterations.

Georg Christoph

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all

P. J. O'Rourke

Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

Zheng Jingping

A modest slowdown, if conducive to the long-term, stable development, is very good.

Tanith Lee

What I like about vampires is what I like about everything I want to write about, the depths and heights, the pain and joy. Life.

Robert Schumann

It is music's lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart

Albert Camus

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer

Frances Beinecke

Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.

Islamic Jihad

The enemy should prepare coffins because we will respond quickly and decisively in the depths of the Zionist entity.

Janet Fitch

It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.

Colm Meaney

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

Emile Zola

Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety

Oprah Winfrey

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

Meher Baba

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

Mary Pipher

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

Edith Hamilton

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

Carl Jung

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Eckhart Tolle

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

Adam Clarke

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

Rajneesh

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

English 14th Century Proverbs

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Richard Baxter

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

William Maxwell

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

William McDonough

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

Trevor Nunn

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Vance Havner

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Robert Wagner

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Robert M. Gates

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Sarah MacLean

You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

William James

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Will Durant

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Satchel Paige

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Mitchell Corwin

I think that this means that the sales process is not going well.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.