Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fitzgerald

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

John Sladek

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Rudolf Hiferding

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

Rudolf Hiferding

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Mary Berry

Key officials anticipated on Election Day that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout based upon new voter registration figures, but did not ensure that the precincts in all counties received the resources to meet their needs,

Herschel Sandler

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Chris Dodd

He convinced me that he will exercise judgment based on the law and the facts of a particular matter,

Richard Suttmeier

Greenspan is at risk of losing his credibility, based upon the fact he was so upbeat two or three weeks ago, ... If they don't bring rates up at this meeting, he will lose credibility -- that would send a horrible message to markets.

Larry Scott

Historically this is a very significant development. We've had some very high-profile matches where momentum has turned based on calls. Now the players know the calls will be right.

Howard Dean

His whole campaign is based on the notion that 'I can keep you safe, therefore, in times of difficulty in America, stick with me,'

Saul Alinsky

The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.

Richard Rainwater

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

Anil Agarwal

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

Joseph Schumpeter

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily ù and perhaps most tellingly ù described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

George Gilder

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

Eric Hobsbawm

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

Ben Shapiro

Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.

Karl Marx

One capitalist always kills many.

Tom Pickard

This organization that we disrupted today embraced the American capitalist ideal and would sell any drug that would turn a profit and did not discriminate in its dealings with any other drug organization.

Jed Dickerson

Just looking to see the conditions of the lake. Kind of looking to see what I can see.

David Jones

(Greenspan) cut rates three times last year, but he said that the conditions that required those cuts are no longer with us. So the outside limit to what he is going to do is three hikes. My guess is that you will only end up with a couple of them, a quarter-point at the end of this month, one in August, and maybe one in October.

Robert Mellman

Historically, construction and starts have been highly sensitive to weather conditions during the winter months.

S. Walker

It honestly wasn't ideal weather conditions for us, but the kids competed well and we had some some good results for the first meet of the year.

O. Singh

I think the conditions today favored us. Really, it was the conditions that dictated the difficulty of the hole, and today it was perfect, so we could get it out there.

O. Singh

I think the conditions today favored us, not the holes they changed.

Sandra Pianalto

Removing the policy accommodation puts us in the strongest possible position to react as evolving economic conditions require.

S. Hughes

Optimism remains, and the conditions supporting stock gains through the end of the year are still good. The economy continues to recover and the interest rate environment is still good, but I have to think that March could be a challenging month.

Aaron Oberholser

I played great golf for 16 holes today. All you need is one poor swing under these conditions and you're writing a 6 on the card.

Buck Showalter

I wouldn't put any limits on him. He can be a difference maker defensively, one of those guys who turns hits into outs.

Paul Levinson

I think in the long run it's not going to make much difference for CBS.

Bonnie Stewart

He wants to be able to learn. He wants to be able to make a difference in someone's life.

Rick Barnes

He is the difference in this team. We know he is going to give us everything he?s got, and he does every night he goes out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

Dean Bonham

Here is a substantial and growing difference between the high and low revenue teams and it's a significant issue. It has to be resolved or they're headed for the kind of disparity we've seen in Major League Baseball.

Carlos Rivera

He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first started three years ago.

Norm Gagne

It hurts to lose. What we did, the things I didn't want to see us do, stay out of the box, and that's what killed us. The two five-on-three goals, that was the difference in the game.

Dave Swanson

I think the difference between the haves and have-nots is alarming. Unless something happens, I think the scores are only going to get worse.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Alex Schott

It's an important project. Everyone will be watching and waiting to see how production goes.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rebecca Watson

All safety systems worked to successfully shut down production on the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) platforms,

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Evo Morales

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

Mindy Kaling

To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I’m a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.