Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Alexander Hamilton

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Thomas Reid

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Stanley Bing

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

John Stuart Mill

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Nathan Deal

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Hugh Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

Mahesh Rangarajan

Ambiguity is Vajpayee's strength. His roots are in poetry and literature, and I think that's a big advantage.

Mahesh Rangarajan

Ambiguity is Vajpayee's strength, ... His roots are in poetry and literature, and I think that's a big advantage.

Robert Webb

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

Susie Wiles

It's not designed to change anything necessarily, but rather to clarify so that in the future we don't have any ambiguity in the code.

Molly O'Keefe

Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.

Charles Sciarra

The statute says 'public hearing,' and if there's any ambiguity it errs on the side of the employee's wishes, which are clear.

Sen. Cappiello

We are talking about people who prey on young children. There isn't any way we can be too strict on these sick people. There should be no ambiguity in our laws. I would even want to look at something as extreme as castration for these people.

Godfrey Reggio

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

Bob Zelnick

the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Lucio Tan

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Noreena Hertz

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

Tom King

With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.

William Wordsworth

We feel that we are greater than we know.

Joseph Fiennes

Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill.

Vicki Kramer

The more standing water you have, the greater the probability for mosquito populations to develop.