Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rafael Marquez

We've had a bit of luck. It's a very acceptable group in which we can do many things.

Dylan Jones

So going from there to where they are now -- where it is acceptable for a man to nip off at lunch time and have a facial, or a pedicure -- is quite a journey.

Abdul Sattar

We hope that the two leaders will be forward-looking ... and try to identify a direction in which that will lead us to a solution acceptable to the Kashmiri people.

Wayne Wilkinson

If you're going to come back with a couple of trees, that's not going to be acceptable to me.

William Wiley

I never really worked with watercolor very much. I messed with water-based paints in high school and stuff, and out of the Northwest that was a more acceptable tradition as a main voice, you know, with Graves and Toby.

Wu Dawei

I hope the parties concerned could continue to participate in consultations in an earnest, responsible, flexible and pragmatic attitude so as to seek solutions acceptable to all parties,

Dr. Kohn

The idea that tobacco use is normal and that it is socially acceptable because respected adults and others do it encourages kids to pick up the habit. Tobacco-free school policies are helping change the perception that smoking and chew are okay.

Rob Manuel

The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we just need to work on the idea that, even out of adolescence, that it's okay to still play.

Gareth Evans

The trouble is that all of the steps that have been taken so far don't seem likely to produce an acceptable outcome.

Robert Foster

We are caught in a bind here. I don't have a choice as a steward of this system.

Robert A. Heinlein

I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.

Elliott Abrams

In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.

Mark Richt

If you don't sign those guys on signing day and another team does, they will have a much better chance of having them in one semester from now. It's not a binding situation. It's a relationship thing.

Alan Greenspan

A continuation of this trend would soon make the lack of refining capacity a binding constraint on growth in oil use, ... lagging.

Grant Teaff

It made it tough for everybody no matter where they were. One was a conference signing period and the other was the national signing period. Even after a kid had signed his letter-of-intent for the conference, schools could just wait around and start recruiting that player because they really only had one school to beat. It wasn't a binding letter like the national one.

Jonathan Haidt

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

Jack Clarke

The real turning point in the game was a 10-minute period when we had a guy in the bin and we went up by 14. We came out of that period well. That was the point where we bowed our backs, and that made the difference in the match.

Ronald Kessler

The really hard thing is how do you get the information in the first place? How do you get someone to rat on someone like bin Laden? That is so difficult and that requires years and patience and money, ... Inside the CIA.

Jewish Proverb

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

John Hernandez

That kind of disturbs me. The money was not the point of this whole thing; it was the way he treated his fellow man, with no compassion.

Vijay Mallya

They take pride in the success of fellow Indians as well.

Barry Eisler

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

James F. Cooper

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

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.

Lori Chappell

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

Stephen Hawking

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

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.