Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hall

Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Bill Newton

This was one of the most shameful and arrogant acts ever committed against consumers.

Chris Hope

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

Mel Sachs

He should not be held responsible for the acts of his co-defendant at all.

Daya Master

There is no connection between us and this explosion. Acts such as this are deplorable.

Scott Silliman

There is no empirical data of which I am aware that says one way or the other we yield credible information from acts of torture. However, coming out of Vietnam, we do have some anecdotal evidence that people will say anything to stop pain.

Daryl Kimball

There is every reason to believe that India and the United States will work side by side in the years to come. However, the nuclear cooperation proposal should not be the linchpin of U.S.-Indian relations, and if Congress acts in ways to address the deal's proliferation risks, bilateral relations will still prosper and the nuclear nonproliferation system will not unravel.

Richard Chamberlain

What is bravery? I think it's largely when one acts spontaneously before weighing the possibilities of self-injury.

Al Larson

I hear different things from different schools. It is kind of a mixture, but it is all anecdotal stuff they are supposed to have some experience with it, so it is not a complete surprise.

Holger Schmieding

The evidence on U.K. consumption remains contradictory. Some data such as weak consumer confidence and the reluctance to use credit cards point to further weakness ahead. However, the modest rebound in the real estate market and anecdotal evidence of satisfactory Christmas indicate a modest strengthening in spending.

Arnie Berman

The key question is whether or not business that's not getting closed is representing postponed business or forgone business, ... The anecdotal evidence is indicating that business is probably postponed.

Lori Lucas

The average person is not making any choices on a proactive basis, on an annual basis. We have more anecdotal evidence that the individuals are not really sure what the choices are.

Terri Miller

It's pretty eye-opening that that many filed, ... But I wouldn't be surprised if we match that number between Oct. 1 and the 16th based on anecdotal information I've gotten from a lot of attorneys.

Bruce Vladeck

A lot of us suspected that was going on, have heard anecdotal stories about it, had the impression that it was harder and harder for poor kids to get Medicaid enrollment, but this is the most dramatic documentation we've had so far.

James Stover

It's the census bureau, so we figured they would respond to statistical information. We've gotten a lot of anecdotal information from the public, and we're trying to document that as much as possible.

Stan Shipley

There's evidence that inflation isn't a problem and some anecdotal evidence that the economy is slowing, but I think we'll have to wait and see the employment report. Greenspan is going to wait to see those numbers before he makes any determination of what he'll do in November.

Michael Metz

There's anecdotal evidence that individual investors are looking more towards the equity market than real estate. It's a good sign initially that there's new demand, but it could suggest we're at the final stages of the advance.

Delise Denham

Kindergartners are aware the mill has moved. (My 6-year-old daughter) told me the other day there's only going to be three kids left in the school.

John Cornyn

I wouldn't read too much into this enforcement-only approach. I think the leader has previously endorsed the idea of comprehensive reform, ... I'm not aware if he has changed his view.

June Daugherty

Kayla has been clutch for five years in this program. She is someone I always counted on to have on the floor in crunch time or a late-game situation, because she's so aware of the circumstances of what's going on and what her team needs to do.

Richard Rand

He was acutely aware of market value and what he felt was a fair price. He could have bought anything he wanted. He was wealthy enough, but he often passed on things if he felt they were overpriced.

E. O. Wilson

He is probably the most improved player on that team so far. He does a great job of blocking. We definitely have to be aware of where (number) 82 is.

Courtney Lewis

There are so many books, once banned, that are foundations of English literature, so it was very important to gain awareness of this threat to English literature.

GM Howson

He's got great speed, good offensive awareness and great vision. He's just got to get experience, become an elite player at the college level. He'll play in the World Juniors, I suspect, next year and hopefully, he'll become and elite player at that level, too.

James Roosevelt

HIV/AIDS continues to be a major public health issue and the Mass Red Ribbon Ride is an important call to action. Tufts Health Plan supports the efforts of the Mass Red Ribbon Ride to increase awareness and decrease the impact of HIV/AIDS in Massachusetts.

Tim Neale

There is a greater awareness of what the regulations are.

Kellan Lutz

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

Derrick Mason

I was jaw-jacking with him a little bit, but it was fun, ... I was like, 'Keep coming, rook, because we are going to keep coming at you.' He's only going to get better the more he plays.

Erick Siqueira

I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on saying huh, what, when all the sudden she raised her voice and started to yell at me as if I was mentally retarded or something.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Roy Blunt

Knowing what is going to happen next year is going to be helpful in coming to a conclusion this year,

Shemar Moore

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

Buck Showalter

Knowing Kam, I don't think there will be anything. He's still mad about coming out of the game.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

Steve Previs

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a big opening and then a little more stability coming into the market simply because this oil price is going back up on what's happening in Nigeria and doesn't look like it's going to be coming down any time soon.

Kevin Sheridan

He obviously is a highly credible public face.

Ian Gow

Having somebody as credible as him ... probably meant that we established that we could be trusted quicker.

Mohamed ElBaradei

to fulfill its verification responsibilities in a credible manner.

Pope John

It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

Eugene Volokh

Lawyers tend to have something credible to say about an important subject. Lawyers have been educated about the legal system, which people are interested in.

Richard DeKaser

If you go back just 90 days, there were credible assertions of $100-a-barrel oil. No one is talking about that anymore.

Robert P. McCulloch

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.

Allan Meltzer

They'll want to see him tested. Greenspan had, in a sense, the good fortune that there was a crisis (Black Monday, Oct. 19, when the Dow lost more than 20%) within the two months of the time he acceded to the chairmanship, and he handled the crisis very well. That established him in the market as a credible chairman.

Allan Meltzer

They'll want to see him tested, ... Greenspan had, in a sense, the good fortune that there was a crisis (Black Monday, Oct. 19, when the Dow lost more than 20%) within the two months of the time he acceded to the chairmanship, and he handled the crisis very well. That established him in the market as a credible chairman.

George Hodgson

I would sign up for the view that industrial, 'old economy' stocks could well be the next to move higher. But I don't see a definitive move until we see some of the economic data in July.

Sam Stovall

I think investors want to see improvement in the economic data so that the feeling is that the Fed doesn't need to lower interest rates. That in itself is a positive.

Jim Zeigler

It can be a watershed district, it can be a school district, it could be another state agency. Just about anybody, if we have good samples, can submit data and we would use the data for this program. So when we talk about who's contributing, it's a really wide range of folks that are doing that.

George V. Higgins

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

Dean Stanley

Having seen all the data for May, our sense is the Fed won't be raising rates in two weeks but that doesn't mean they won't be tightening rates later this summer,

Jun Kitazawa

I think the dollar will try the upside if the data are good, but I don't think it will find momentum.

Ethan Harris

It is gradual step towards a little more flexibility. Inflation, the economy and the markets will dictate how much further they go. They say the economy is strong and that inflation risks are tilted a little to the upside. There is nothing yet in the data that will stop the Fed.

M. Wolfe

I think a lot of people are waiting for more economic data later in the week,

Allison Montgomery

I think at the moment what they are trying to do is limit yen strength, given the fact that Japanese corporations are still facing a lot of deflationary pressures. Japanese trade data showed another fall in exports, which is a byproduct of the yen strength we've seen over the past few months.

Alan Huffman

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

Philip Shaw

A lot of research in intelligence has not been that great. I would hope by this modest descriptive study to put things on an empirical footing.

Cory Doctorow

What little empirical evidence is out there points to eBooks and free downloading increases sales on a net basis.

John Fiske

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

George Akerlof

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

Ray Arvidson

I wouldn't be surprised as we move uphill that we find a section of the rock, in fact, that was modified in a shallow open-water environment. We haven't found the smoking-gun evidence for that yet.

Jack Boatwright

There are still places where you can see evidence of the 1906 earthquake. You just have to know where to look.

Ken Tower

What would make me more optimistic is if there was evidence that money on the sidelines is being put to work. But I'm not convinced.

Michael Shermer

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

David Scott

He's a liar, in the view of the commissioner, except when it comes to his evidence about what he and Mr. Pelletier did together.

Mark Schneider

It is actually one of the really strong pieces of evidence in the report that we should be celebrating.

Wesley Clark

I think the evidence of the mass graves is confirmation of the terrible wrong done here.

William Brennan

There is a lack of evidence in this case.

Brian Doyle

There is more than enough evidence that we have good security these issues were addressed quickly and efficiently.

Bay Buchanan

He did everything correct. They feel that they have a right to all information about his life, and they simply do not.

Chris Hill

I think it's important that people get to know as much information as possible. I was very supportive of it.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Jim Moran

It is premature, we don't have enough information and . . . it may turn out to be unnecessary.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any specific information on these images.

James Jeffrey

I don't have any more information for you on that.

Arlen Specter

Had that information been shared with the FBI, which was trying to get it, 9/11 might have been prevented,

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.

Tori Amos

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

John Keker

He could kibbutz at most. He didn't run China. Other people did.

Brian Reilly

He's been through it. He just says to stay patient.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Patricia Watkins

When he says he doesn't know, it's the honest-to-God truth.

Nick Pappas

I think what it says is that Telstra Stadium is out of sight, out of mind,

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Denise Roberts

He says he wants to be a firefighter,

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. What he says goes.

Bruce Willis

Just Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Ashraf Nubani

Just stop the pain, I'll say anything, ... one lash after another.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Josh Fodor

He was stopping everything. We had a lot of opportunities but couldn't get any in.

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.

Robert Schumann

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

William Devane

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Lafcadio Hearn

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.