Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Flinn

I think it does give the appearance of preferential treatment with respect to gender or with respect to rank,

Charles Darwin

Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,

Bill Swain

He really wants to make this event his first public appearance in Maine. We just love him here and he will get a real hero's welcome.

Steve Ward

In my view there is an appearance of a conflict of interest, or at least the perception of a conflict,

Ralph Macchio

In this arc we see the appearance of Ultimate Namor for the first time! And, we learn how truly dissimilar he is to the mainstream Sub-Mariner. We'll be digging deep into the mythology of the Ultimate Universe here.

Matt Maldre

If there was a wikipedia page about you, what would it say?

Mandeep Kaur

Children and their parents should be counseled on prevention measures, including avoiding tanning, especially as they reach adolescence and appearance becomes a larger issue.

David Bookbinder

In a major constitutional case where the vice president's personal conduct is an issue, we are concerned. It certainly raises questions about the appearance of impropriety.

Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg

John Hammond

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

Dave Mitchell

I think it is a conflict to a lot of people. As far as perception goes it is a real problem.

Patrick Dougherty

There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph.

Chris Cook

I think it's just a reminder of the high price our friends and relatives are paying in this conflict.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent us from doing something that we think is the right thing to do, is simply not on.

Kofi Annan

hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.

Thomas Lee

He was up here to find someone he had a conflict with in the past.

Saddam Hussein

Iraq does not seek conflict with the United States and if there is a solution to this crisis... we would be happy,

Tommy Franks

In each conflict that our nation's been in throughout our history, we have had people hurt, and we've had people killed,

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Samuel Beckett

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Salman Rushdie

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

Lamar Odom

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Marshall McLuhan

Human perception is literally incarnation.

Julia Roberts

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.