Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Jeb Bush

Where they didn't work, we had supply but it wasn't adequate. It was not adequate for the demand.

Edward Taylor

We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done.

Lisa Kelley

We want funding levels to be adequate to put conservation programs on the ground.

Mary Schiavo

There is no other way to force the FAA to adequately do its job of overseeing the carriers of this country and enforcing aviation safety.

Jim Harrison

Until the court has determined that they conducted an adequate search for my clients' documents, I think the document destruction should cease.

Max Heindel

There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.

George Andrews

This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment.

Nancy Fox

We're going to enjoy a good semester or two of adequate parking at that time. We have ambitious plans to grow the university. So for the next five years or so, we're going to experience growth pains,

Richard McLaren

We want them to ... agree to a referendum to allow Texans to vote on the independence issue,

David Hoffman

Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.

Neil Watkins

We also serve clear notice that this agreement is only a first step on a long journey. We will continue to pressure world leaders to cancel the debts of all impoverished countries in the months and years ahead.

Lucas Neff

I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.

Anita Plessis

The powerful prayers of the righteous which moves mountains are determined by the power of agreement and not whether we're in the same place!

Trey Davis

The possibility of a settlement with Arthur Andersen presented many complicated and interconnected issues that required the agreement of numerous parties. Despite our extensive efforts, in the end these simply could not be worked out. Without their resolution, any settlement would have worked to the detriment of the class.

John Rogers

The plea agreement was extensive and is clear. Mr. Rasch and I discussed it thoroughly, and it's my understanding that he had a clear understanding of the contents of the agreement.

James Donahue

The plea agreement is a very good compromise.

James Evans

The only city policies that matter with Rocky are the ones he agrees with, ... If he doesn't agree with them, they don't exist.

Tony Dungy

We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us.

John Broughton

We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,

Pat Sullivan

We're in that critical time that people can be rescued, ... If we don't get out thereto and do it now, then they're going to die.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Lennon Parham

We took 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.

Judd Rose

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Patrick Halsted

When we go to elevated (alert status) we fortify structures deemed critical - this is one of them.

Edward Everett Hale

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Brian Macy

We started out the game very tentative. They played some good defense to start with ... our cuts were slow, we didn't play very well.

Leslie Mann

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

Marty Parkes

What they're shooting for is what Mike called a visible and playable difference between those two cuts of rough.

Robert Brusca

We're still seeing job cuts in manufacturing, and it's going to stay that way for some time.

Grover Norquist

A tax increase offset by larger tax cuts may or may not be a good idea, but it's not a sin.

Barbara Reynolds

A lot of streets are still very dark in town and not set up numerically, ... This cuts down on our response time.

William Maestri

This is a fundamental priority for us, because this cuts to the very heart of our mission, ... to educate and be educated.

Gene Sperling

They're trying to turn their focus on cuts to important domestic programs that weren't even part of the problem.

Michael Lopez

They take short cuts to get the job done, thinking that's going to please the employer.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Al Pacino

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Katherine Harris

This money doesn't replace the funding that's already in place. It's layered on top,

Jo Salyers

There was never any funding to work with.

Susan Holmes

There needs to funding on a long-term basis,

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Charlie Skelton

The shows themselves will provide perpetual funding for the scholarships.

Dory Hollander

See your job as a funding source for what you want to do next. Do what's required and do it as quickly as you can, then network with those who can give you the growth you need for the next job.

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Steve MacFarlane

Northwest has guaranteed a strike because their proposal is so extreme.

Scott Hennig

Put the money into savings. Set it up so that the payment comes out every single year, even if it's a smaller payment than the $400. People will be guaranteed that payment year after year after year.

Ray Willis

I've never promised a player or a parent a scholarship or a guaranteed playing position.

Ben Horowitz

As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

Joe Villa

When you come out to a WWE event, you're guaranteed to get your money's worth.

Rob Jeter

Because of the level we're at, we can win the regular season but we're not guaranteed into the NCAA tournament. At this level, you have to win your own tournament.

Kate Winslet

My god, I'm not really doing it for that. I don't think we really need another film about the Holocaust, do we? It's like, how many have there been? We get it! It was grim! Move on! No, I'm doing it because I've noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust? Guaranteed Oscar. I've been nominated for four. Never won!

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Florentino Perez

Some of the players think they have a guaranteed place in the side and that they are the best. I think they are getting confused.

Marco Killingsworth

They're Michigan State ... They're going to make that run. We just have to weather the storm.

Jose Fernandez

This is probably the strongest schedule we ever played. We had that stretch with Carolina, DePaul and Michigan State, then played LSU and opened on the road at Pitt. So we've played some quality teams.

Brent Musburger

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

Bret Bielema

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

Adam Haluska

Up there, we rolled over, no question, but I remember saying that I thought we were a better team than Michigan State.

Tom Izzo

If I was him, I'd never do anything in the state of Michigan again.

Jesmyn Ward

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

Jennifer Granholm

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

Maurice Stovall

Michigan State just made more plays than we did.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Mirek Porosa

It was a total domination. We outplayed them with every volleyball skill and the results speak for themselves.

Clint Hurdle

As a player, I was a quick-fix type guy, ... I wanted it now. The society we live in wants everything now. We're results-oriented. Well, I've come to understand that results are just that. And sometimes they come in their own time.

Sal Sinatra

The tests from New Bolton were inconclusive. More tests are going to be done at Cornell University, and I should know the results by Tuesday.

Zahir Azimi

We are waiting for the results and they could come any time.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

David Smith

They are overestimating the anti-gay sentiment in their own organization and the country.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Raza Jaffrey

Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.

Tom DeLay

To all these new spending requests, I say, 'Mr. President, show me the money,

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Rush Limbaugh

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

Seth Rogen

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Jesse Jackson

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

Jeb Bush

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

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.

Jose Lima

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

Kenneth Moore

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

Andy Reid

They were getting to the quarterback. There was something wrong there.

Bob McDonald

It's the wrong place, wrong use, wrong time.