Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas McSweeny

Our analysis shows that ... you could make a 20-fold increase in safety in the center fuel tank on the 747 (with JP-5). That's worth going after.

Michael Ovitz

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

Don White

After a thorough analysis of Data Centers in the Charlotte market, we selected Hosted Solutions for their Dual Power Grid architecture, redundant infrastructure, and focus on security and process.

John Bollinger

Technical analysis works precisely because people look at it. And if people care, I care.

Michael Heffernan

Technical analysis will show you unusual trading patterns which might indicate a takeover bid or an institution building up a stake.

Timothy Dean

I've treated them just like my own students, so they've had to commit to the way we work. It's been interesting to see how the thoroughness and meticulous analysis of the way we operate has been new to them.

Melissa Fleming

It was very clear from our analysis that they were forgeries. We found 20 to 30 anomalies within a day.

Kim Foster

They are all here, or have been here recently and are doing their analysis on the market here. They are also working with one another to look at co-location opportunities. I think that you are going to see one or more of them make a move very shortly, as opposed to long-term. I think you're going to see something happen quite quickly.

Christine Gregoire

This is a significant issue for the nation, ... It is a watershed issue of public policy that requires the review and analysis of our nation's highest court.

Cecil Frank Powell

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Bible Bible

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

Elizabeth Scott

I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.

Billy Bragg

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

Terry Hall

We are determined to keep our Texas freeways free. These highways have already been paid for by our tax dollars. If they try to make us pay toll on it, it is nothing short of double taxation. I think the number of people we have reached and gotten involved is a testament to the depth and breadth of this issue.

Robert Kelly

You know you're fat when you use a piece of a bread as a napkin.

Randy Alcorn

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

Studs Terkel

Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.

Steven Wright

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Alan Johnson

The British government was disappointed that the meeting did not make more progress but relieved it did not end in failure like Cancun and Seattle.

John Scarlett

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

Martin Rees

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

John Deacon

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

Faith Hill

Thank you, fans, very much. She would say that in a British accent. ... She's a fantastic director, one of the greatest that I've ever had the pleasure to work with. She's in London editing another video for me for a song called 'Stealing Kisses.' It's amazing. It was an honor to work with her, and I know she would ... thank the fans and she would thank hair and makeup. There was a lot of hair. There was a lot of makeup. It was just very exciting to do it.

Thomas Kean

There's no question that we are not as safe as we need to be. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

J. K. Rowling

I'm a very distracted person.

Rob Bell

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Jeff Rainey

Not as many as they should. More of them are distracted by what's on TV or what catches their ear.

Mike Rucker

We said, 'Hey, we're not going to be distracted by the lack of people. We're not going to be distracted by their record. We're not going to be distracted by the fact that we just played a Monday night game and had a short week of practice,'

Jonathan Tang

We don't want to become a platform. I don't want my people to be distracted by going out there and finding ISV partners.

Kelly Greenberg

We need to keep focus on what we're doing. We're not going to be an undefeated team, so we can't get upset over every loss. We can't drown our sorrows in that. We just need to come ready to play.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Louis Reigel

After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina,

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Rod Graves

The risk is probably no greater or no worse than it is for a lot of other players, but the spotlight is always heavier on the quarterbacks. It's just the risk that we're involved with. You hope you're making the right choice.

Proverbs

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

Rick Costa

The process is oftentimes too mysterious, and the public has a right to know. We're hoping that there will be a greater understanding of the process.

Mark Nelson

Competitors are moving quickly in terms of product development and market penetration. These competitors can potentially sacrifice profits in the smart-phone segment for the sake of greater market penetration.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Dick Bartholdi

Some people thought we were going to lie down and lose 15-0. But our kids don't do that. I'm biased, but I think our kids work harder than anybody.

Kameron Loe

Pretty shaky on my part in the fielding. But my fielders really picked me up. I made it a lot harder on myself.

Brandon Jennings

The harder you work when nobody’s watching the less you bleed when it’s time to perform.

Michael Hirschorn

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

Tyler Murovich

When I hear stuff like that it reminds to work harder and stay in the weight room.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Carl von Clausewitz

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Bryant H. McGill

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Bob Bradley

A sea of humanity. What a wonderful sight to see at the start.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Carl Sandburg

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Daniel Handler

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Elizabeth Strout

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)

Bill Hybels

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Tony Robbins

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Robert Boyle

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.