Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Lazarus

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Robert Hughes

if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

John Hickenlooper

I hope there's some cowtown left, because as much as we are going to be defined by the future, the past is also part of who we are.

Sorin Cerin

The Being as an opposite of the Void is defined as Knowledge opposed to the non-Knowledge and this way it is a non-Knowledge which receives the meaning of Knowledge precisely because it has the possibility to reflect the only thing that is true in its Self, namely non-Knowledge!

Ryan Holmes

Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.

Rob Konrad

You think about the guys who have been there the whole time and really defined the Miami Dolphins' defense... you think about Zach (Thomas), you think about Jason (Taylor) and you think about Sam. Sam was such a perfect fit under the press-and-go system under Jimmy. He was a guy that, just by his presence, made quarterbacks throw the other way.

Luke Ford

It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.

Nicholas Sparks

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Sandra Bernhard

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Anthony Warrens

It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,

Devon Williams

The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richelle Mead

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Woody Allen

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Courtney Barnett

I'm self-deprecating - I spend a lot of time telling myself that things are OK, as opposed to having to tell myself to get over things.

Dan Rice

I'm not opposed to it. I just don't know that much about it.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

Nicolas Cage

It is satire, but it remains in the realm of the real, as opposed to something like 'Dr. Strangelove,'

Sarah Reeves

They're self-portraits of the way that I feel about myself physically as opposed to the way society makes me feel about myself.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Malcolm Gladwell

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Chris Burke

The style of play will be to our advantage. They'll have to make the adjustments to us, as opposed to vice versa these two games.

Emma Thompson

Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Will Rogers

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Twyla Tharp

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

Wilfrid Laurier

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister

Walter Russell

"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

Margot Robbie

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

John Cheever

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Mike Tollin

He's at a place where he's more honest, reflective and self-effacing.

Bernie Williams

Today is a day to reflect upon our season. The day will come when I will have to make a decision, but that isn't today.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

Robert Schumann

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

Warren Buffett

Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

Richard Holloway

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Richard M. Nixon

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.

Samuel Richardson

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Robert South

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

Robert Pattinson

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Robin McKinley

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Samuel Johnson

His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.

Samuel Beckett

There's no lack of void.

Dave Wannstedt

If you look at our (depth chart), there's kind of a little void there,

Emile M. Cioran

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

Judi Dench

Work certainly does help fill a void.

Madeline Kahn

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

James Otis

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

Mickey Andrews

There's a void there right now. But we've got some potential.

Diane Setterfield

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.