Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

Ellen Anderson

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

Cheryl Mendelson

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

William Shakespeare

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

Carl Jung

The gods have become our diseases.

David Wilson

We're starting to see young people with old people diseases. These diseases include hardening of the arteries, heart attacks, and diabetes.

Benjamin Franklin

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

Avicenna

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Biz Stone

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Brandon Farr

We were trying to get some young guys some work, guys who hadn't been getting as many innings on the weekend. So that was the initial plan either way. So it worked out where a guy would struggle, but we had a guy ready to go.

John Challenger

There is no question about it. More people today are striking out on their own, either involuntarily or voluntarily.

Sevyn Streeter

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.

Ban Ki-moon

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

Dan Barnett

This was not a bathing suit scenario. This was a grown man exposing himself to an 8-year-old girl.

Paul Watson

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

Wayne Krivsky

He's a quick-read guy. We're exposing him to all phases of the operation. We'll see where he fits in.

Brady Hoke

I think we all have to be a little more sensible about what we're trying to do. There is something to be said about exposing your program to the nation, but playing three BCS teams a year? That takes its toll.

Hussein Chalayan

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.

Mariella Frostrup

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

Jim Ramstad

The GAO study revealed that one recipient even used CDSOA money to pay off a home mortgage, further exposing this flawed law as a taxpayer-financed slush fund for a few lucky recipients,

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

David Brooks

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Audre Lorde

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

Astro Teller

Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World

Casey Todd

We always focus one game at a time.

Yen Nguyen

A lot of the Vietnamese kids can't really speak Vietnamese anymore. Most of them will have a very heavy accent, because they can't speak it well. So for the kids pageant, the kids will have to be able to speak Vietnamese. And so this is what we're trying to promote: Let them memorize some Vietnamese lines, go up on stage and see how well they present their Vietnamese.

Nick Jones

They need some heavy hitters on their side. They are represented by a lot of manufacturers and carriers, but not in any particular volume.

Paul Trainor

They don't want to go too heavy because if it does pullback then they're paying the higher price so hedging is a two-edged sword in that respect.

Pierre Turgeon

The number is the curse. It's a heavy burden.

Michigan State

It started with one vehicle, which spun out in heavy fog. I think she hit a patch of ice,

Shaukat Sultan

There was heavy resistance from the other side,

Bob Higgins

It's all about how the storms stack up. We have heavy snow years and light snow years. It's not indicative of any trend.

Tom Daschle

This is the toughest thing we've had to do since impeachment. It's really heavy lifting.

John Egan

They're heavy hitters. They're all big in the industry.

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Mark Lee

We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

Peter Rice

Whenever we can, we like to improve the situation.

Silvio Berlusconi

There is no point in talking about improvement because there has been no worsening

Jimmy Carter

There is no other mandate whose implementation could more to profoundly improve international relationships,

Natalie Taylor

We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.

Jim Loughran

We're going to stay with the same thing and try to improve what we have.

Ron Dickerson

What we're looking for right now is improvement every week, ... We could go 0-10 or 10-0, as long as our kids get better every week. That's our goal.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

John Hull

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

Marian Seldes

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

O. Singh

Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.

Brendan Shanahan

As much as we're known for our goal-scoring, we're very strong defensively, so I think that we can do the same to them and stifle their offense.

Rudy Giuliani

All of us will miss him at Yankee Stadium, ... We were all uplifted for having known him.

Tommy Johnson

It's a serious problem from our standpoint. We wish we'd known about it sooner.

Benjamin Franklin

For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.

Lucas Piatt

This is the 'put up or shut up' opportunity. We have to do it now, or Pittsburgh will be known for one project that never got off the ground. We need to stop talking about it.

Tim Baldwin

It wasn't something that was known to us.

Richard Reeves

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Jean Chatzky

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Ed Silliere

Everyone is lowering their expectations for demand. It's taken the urgency out of the market.

J. Taylor

A lowering of tariffs will help. However, it's not the only issue.

Adam Coe

We were trying to make some noise. I told them that noise would get him rattled.

Edwin Way Teale

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Jan Panek

There was a terrible noise then the roof collapsed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent

John McFarlane

This is somebody who's got a product, and is trying to make noise out of nothing. This is stuff that we do day to day.

Jane Austen

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Diane Duane

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

Brian Eno

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Billy Crystal

I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Amartya Sen

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Groucho Marx

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Tertullian

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Thom Berry

We feel like our regulations are protective of the environment.

Dorothy L. Sayers

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

Orlando Bloom

I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

Hilary Mantel

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Paullina Simons

He is just protective over me-” “Not protective, Tania. Consumed.