Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Shan

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

John Powell

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

Thomas Nagel

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

Tom Clancy

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

Marcus Buckingham

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Eddie Smith

It is a concern, it's one of the reasons why we've really heightened up the level of consciousness with our managers, our servers, to make sure they are not over-serving.

Richard Rowe

It had not perhaps been raised to our consciousness by the reports we had received.

Micky Adams

He has now regained consciousness. He's being assessed at the hospital. He's got a gash on his head but I haven't been told that anything is broken.

Andre Holland

In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

Luc de Clapiers

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Radhanath Swami

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

Radhanath Swami

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

Patrick Duffy

I learned to travel, then I travelled to learn.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Jimmy Page

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.