Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Chocola

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

David Hoffman

I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

David Suzuki

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit

Bill Bryant

We were arguing over the color of the frosting and we don't even have a cake.

Norm MacDonald

I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.'

Ruth Collins

What they're arguing about right now is whether there's enough evidence. There's never enough evidence. There's never certainty in medicine.

James Carville

At a gut level, we know something's wrong. Instead of arguing about it, let's figure out what to do.

Stephen Flynn

This is a case where we were arguing about the wrong part of the problem. Americans were shocked to learn that the vast majority of port operations in this country are handled by foreign firms. But transportation is a global network, and we're not going to own all of it.

Stephen Flynn

This is a case where we were arguing about the wrong part of the problem.

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Paul Rothemund

We actually fold the DNA into any shape that we want. So in the case of the smiley faces that I made, I actually fold the DNA into a disk, but then leave two holes for the eyes and the mouth.

Freddie Shepherd

We always intended to take our time over the appointment of a full-time manager and that is still the case as we consider our options very carefully.

Mike Foley

We also think they're trying to take the other parks and slice off pieces of them too. This is sort of a test case to see if they can get away with it.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Dan Bartlett

The plight of the Palestinians has always been on the president's mind and a part of his statements. But sometimes when we state our case not all of it gets out. So we reorder the priorities to make sure our entire policy and positions get out there.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Chris Nelson

a terrifying prospect to serious foreign policy players.

George H. W. Bush

the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in the modern history of our nation.

Jerry Lewis

This is a national security issue; this is a national security bill. It's important to protect our ports from this kind of foreign involvement.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Norihiro Fujito

It is understandable that foreigners want to take profits for now.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Colin Lundgren

Foreign investors will still get a lot of yield comparatively in the U.S., so we could see them buying.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

David Bowers

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.

Robert Ferguson

Absurd. The prediction of a 4-degree increase in global temperatures in the next 100 years is ridiculous, and that kind of an increase in sea level is greatly overblown.

Nancy Nolan

It's just to let people in Lexington ... know what's going on ... in the surrounding communities and what's going on with global warming.

Judith Curry

This firms up the link between sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity. It is an important piece of the global warming debate.

Sam Pitroda

It is time we structure our institutions of knowledge to be a global player in the 21st century.

O. Henry

It's not our forces. It's not the Western world that's going to win the global war on terrorism. It is going to be the moderate Muslim population, the ones who are the principal victims of this terrorism.

Jeff Losch

They handled us pretty well. But we're a totally different team now.

Bob Doyle

This investigation is in its infancy. It is being processed and handled as a homicide, ... That does not rule out a homicide-suicide.

Carol Berg

There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!

Daniel Alfredsson

They're just trying to showcase themselves. I thought we handled it well.

Jim Stack

There's been a lot of things that have been thrown at him this year. We haven't been as successful as we had hoped, but he's handled a lot of things well.

Jennifer Palmieri

It was the first time people saw him really mixing it up and he handled it well. But the party doesn't want to push him into peaking too soon because we want him to be successful.

Bill Snyder

It was a monumental game, I think, for him. I thought he handled it quite well, from what I saw. He's a very poised young guy.

Ellen Foley

The theater management handled the situation very well.

Joe Gibbs

I've appreciated how Patrick has handled the situation all year. It says a lot about him and his character.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Alan Watts

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Bruce Barber

We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

Edward Gibbon

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Alan Price

There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Emeka Umeh

On Tuesday over 60 were killed; on Wednesday over 20 were killed. Some of them are Christians, the majority of them are Muslims.

Pete Smith

Things were just obliterated, so the majority of the money is going to be used to rebuild.

Bruce Cranna

They have been talking about streamlining operations and making their manufacturing more efficient. It's part of that story.

Jim Oliver

They are shutting down that quarry. They have ceased operations there.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Mark Page

It's a strange situation to have one set of regulations in one port and not in others, isn't it?

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Kunda Dixit

For him to even acknowledge there was a people's movement, that really shocked me.

Bill Gottschalk

They're amazed. They are always shocked when they walk in here.

Paul Dwyer

Right now, we're shocked and very saddened over everything that happened.

Darren Sharper

I've been shocked from the get-go with this team,

Jennifer Aniston

The world was shocked and I was shocked.

Gary Bongiovanni

You're not getting (Madonna), but Fresno is. It shocked me as much as anybody.

Dan Stevens

I'm shocked at being recognized.

Pat Gillick

We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.

Alex Beuzelin

They are still vastly under-performing the U.S. economy,

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Cat Deeley

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

Gregg Laskoski

We were as wrong as you could get.

Charles M. Blow

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Bob Parsons

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

Bill Johnson

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Douglas Brinkley

With Nixon, you see the right way to do it and the wrong way to do it.

Jose Lima

It's embarrassing. If you don't feel for this, something's wrong with you.

Marshall Faulk

They outplayed us. They did everything right and we did everything wrong today.

Kenneth Moore

They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.