Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

Jon Nadler

We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.

Ruth Ginsburg

This case, here for the second time, raises a question 'of profound importance to the nation. Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests.

Joseph Rotblat

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.

Jennifer Grant

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

John F. Kerry

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

Matt Gallagher

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Rajeev Sharma

Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.

John Galbraith

Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion

E. Hurley

The positive things are very shallow; the positive things would be things like: Getting any restaurant reservation you like! Getting to the front of the line! Being given free things! So what? The traveling is monstrous because you get bothered all the time. The hell of going on holiday when you're famous! You can't go anywhere! It's just no fun!

Charlize Theron

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].

Becky Carlson

When we went to the half-court trap it bothered them and we picked up our defensive intensity. We were able to get some steals. We kept running the offense and got great shots, sometimes they just didn't fall for us but we had a good stretch at the end of the quarter.

Tony Mento

We're so young, so we're learning as we go. We have so much talent here, but we have two transfers (Tucker and Foster) and some kids without much experience. Perth Amboy bothered us with some pressure in the fourth quarter, which I expected, but we were able to regain our composure.

Mark Fox

We're going to have to play better than we did in Moscow. We were up double figures and their pressure bothered us.

Louise Young

Usually, if you bothered to come, you wanted our endorsement, ... She came to talk to us anyway. I thought that was very odd.

Lou Holtz

A lot of people didn't even know we were being investigated. When the news broke last week, our freshmen were like, 'We were under investigation? No one ever told us.' It's not like I bothered to tell them.

John McCullough

They had eight offensive rebounds in the first half but didn't get many second-chance shots in the second half. Our effort was very good. We mixed a man-to-man with a zone and I think it bothered them a little bit." ()

Clark Haggans

It's OK, it just bothered me the entire time,

James Thompson

Unprecedented natural gas prices are causing the price increase.

Max Heindel

There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.

Judith Curry

With this new paper, we firm up the link between the increase in sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity, which has been a key issue in the debate about whether global warming is causing an increase in hurricane intensity.

Jill Dougherty

As you can imagine, this news is causing quite a sensation,

David Lereah

A lot of demand has been met over the last five years, and a modest rise in mortgage interest rates is causing some market cooling.

Steve DiPatri

For a while, we were causing them problems. It was scoreless the first three or four minutes.

Kathy Fletcher

It's the runoff off of our streets and highways and it's causing toxins to get into Puget Sound.

Steven Drizin

It's taken 45 years but Johnny Lee Roberts has finally felt comfortable enough to tell the truth of what happened to Kennard. His courage is now causing others to come forward, including prominent whites, to express their long-held misgivings about Kennard's conviction.

Paul Trainor

It's the outlook that is causing some worry because they still have things like the race broadcasts and smoking bans to work through.

Louise Bourgeois

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Linda Johnson

The people who voted yes understood the issue, and that is really what we are concerned about. I think it speaks for itself.

Bill Nygren

The people who own Internet stocks are taking on a very high level of risk. Myself and most of the other managers at the conference are concerned about people who own and trade those stocks not understanding the risks they're taking.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Gerald Lucas

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what's happening in the corporate credit market.

Matt Durgin

We're not going to make an issue of it. We're more concerned who we're playing, not where we're playing.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Melissa Fleming

We are awaiting the green light from the U.N. Security Council to tell us what are the next steps,

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

Jayantha Dhanapala

We are all satisfied at the progress that has been made, and our report will be before the (U.N.) Security Council very shortly.

Sulejman Tihic

We feel that our relations have progressed so much that this form of inter-state council is no longer appropriate.

Dan Senor

We're hopeful that the deadline will be met. The Governing Council has given us every indication that it will.

Tecumseh

As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably make them a visit. Should they offer us any presents of goods, we will not take them; but should they offer us powder and the tomahawk, we will take the powder and refuse the tomahawk.

Jake Siewert

It's essentially the first organizing meeting of this council to prepare for a smooth transition.

Aaron Neumann

It's a simple ordinance that the council can pass that defines what a 'high-risk' loan is and then provides counseling to those who qualify, as a way to end the many foreclosures and bankruptcies that devastate already fragile communities.

Vernon Brown

This is a major policy shift and I think as a council we need to look at that policy change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Alan Jackson

I'm usually just enjoying life.

Arnold Palmer

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Ruth Coleman

We are proud to be able to offer such a wide variety of maps and guides for people to plan their visit, as well as souvenirs that hold memories of the enjoyable time they had.

Rick Reynolds

We're in a lodge. We're not in a tent. It's a way to relax at night. A little television indoors doesn't take away from my experience enjoying the scenery here.

Henry Samueli

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Mike Sanford

We're not going to make it enjoyable to lose around here. It's going to be a miserable existence.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Dickens

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

Charles Spurgeon

The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.

Charles Spurgeon

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Charles Spurgeon

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Charles Spurgeon

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Alan Watts

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

Diane Swonk

We're more productive than we were in the 90s and frankly we didn't start hitting wage pressures in the 90s until about a 4-3/4 percent unemployment rate.

Johnny Vaughan

They frankly go bananas. They feel like a big team representing their town.

Doug Campbell

It's the perfect opportunity to give Minnie Lilley the recognition, and frankly the respect, that she deserves.

Jeff Blake

It's a buffer. We do them frequently, and quite frankly I think you're going to see them more often. Sometimes the way (to go) is to share the risk.

Sergei Lavrov

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Gary Kelly

Quite frankly I was surprised to see those industry numbers,

Christopher Hill

This is not easy, and frankly it's not a lot of fun ... but we are making progress.

Kenneth R. Miller

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Gary Condit

and we frankly think that's what the American people want us to do.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Charles Handy

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Richard Berry

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep, ... A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Jason Asbell

We've tried to put ourselves in position to play some really talented teams or individual players.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Elizabeth Kostova

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Charles Dickens

I only ask for information.

Charles Schumer

We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.

China Mieville

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

David Icke

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Some information I just keep to myself.

Dee Hock

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Mayor Barse

We are always seeking new and better information.

Richard Davidson

We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction.

Alexander Kashlinsky

Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Keke Palmer

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Kelly Rowan

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Marc Cherry

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

Dr. Fauci

It is unclear whether the mutation occurred in the person or whether it occurred in the chicken.

Al Johnson

There were 39 fatalities in 2005, which was a slight reduction from the 41 fatalities that occurred in 2004 and a 40 percent reduction from 1998's 65 fatalities.

Andrew Stuart

It never occurred to me that this was a trick. In this industry, you take somebody at their word.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Robert Finch

They haven't occurred as often as they did previously.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Charles Dickens

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).