Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo LoParo

We are hopeful that the judge will see the merits of our argument.

Alistair Cooke

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Ray Tanner

Drew understands our situation. Most other guys would have been in my office by now. He has an argument for being in there every single day.

Adam Schneider

Everybody in the city knew from 1996 on that there were extensive plans for the redevelopment of Broadway and the oceanfront, ... The argument that people there didn't know until two or four or five years later is, to my mind, ridiculous.

Michael Ramsey

As soon as Iraq violated the cease-fire, then the U.S. was entitled to say this cease-fire no longer exists. There's no fair argument that Iraq hasn't violated the cease-fire.

Bob Berney

At the screening, Garrison said that to broaden the film's appeal, they were thinking about changing the name to 'Savage Love,' so we may have an argument there.

Robert Quillen

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance

Robert Bork

confirm a nominee with no visible judicial philosophy who lacks the basic skills of persuasive argument and clear writing.

Sebastian Coe

Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi's legacy will be this country will have winter sports facilities it did not have before.

Eugenie Scott

The most toxic thing about this whole discussion is the impression that most of the public has, that there's a line in the sand, and you have to be on one side or the other.

Tara Fisher

These events are a way to open discussion that might not otherwise be talked about.

Arlen Specter

I should stay away from a discussion of specific cases,

Niels From

The whole discussion about rising protectionism, especially in the United States, is a dollar negative. It's an ongoing story.

Jami Attenberg

Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.

S. Walker

an explicit discussion of what coastal Louisiana should look like.

Christopher Cox

to stimulate discussion and promote further efforts at the development of market instruments to value employee stock options.

William Moffitt

At the end of the day, when you think about wiretaps, think about what's not there, ... There's not one discussion of planning violent activity.

Brian Arbogast

We think that there's at least an interesting discussion to have in the industry as to whether or not there is a need to have this higher operating authority.

Lord Byron

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

This is real collaboration, when people get together in a room with a full exchange of ideas.

Rusty Hardin

You must not have been worried about the (Securities and Exchange Commission) seeing them.

Wang Zhaoguo

We hope to provide an open platform so that trade union organizations from different social backgrounds and ideologies can freely exchange views and seek more opportunities for co-operation.

Zhang Ning

Even though I played three games, I don't feel tired, ... There were not a lot of exchanges on the points.

Chu Sik

Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.

Granth Sahib

I sold myself at Your store in exchange for the Guru's Word; whatever You link me to, to that I am linked.

Michel Alaby

One of the proposals is to link the sites. Another is to exchange information about investment, trade, tourism and business.

Chris Koch

I wouldn't be surprised to see the Shanghai Shipping Exchange spread throughout China, if they want it too.

Ben Okri

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Benito Mussolini

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Jane Goodall

So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

Alain Badiou

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

Vandana Shiva

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.

Jared Diamond

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Bret Easton Ellis

She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.