Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Alan Dershowitz

Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history; that unless we have influence and power, disproportionate to our small numbers - immoral results will occur. We need power. And we must continue to use our power. Power which we earned, power which no one gave us on a silver platter, power which we worked hard for - use that power in the interests of justice.

Anton Chekhov

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Anita Baker

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Cyril Connolly

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

Howard Hughes

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

Michael Myers

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.

David Baltimore

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

Graeme Stephens

We haven't seen Earth before like this, and we're going to discover new things about Earth and clouds that we've not experienced before.

William Shakespeare

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

Amy Landecker

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

Ryohei Muramatsu

We are seeing dark clouds on the horizon because of slowing housing markets. The inverted yield curve could be a sign of a slowdown in the economy. Treasuries yields are unlikely to rise.

Tom Finucane

I wouldn't say the sun is shining on them yet, but the clouds are parting. I see a lot of opportunity.

Daniel Johnston

There is good news in sight but there are some dark clouds on the horizon,

Tim Connolly

We're obviously completely embarrassed and unhappy. To come in here and lose, 7-0, is a total embarrassment. There's no reason we should lose to any team by seven goals. We'd better get our heads out of the clouds and play the way we know how.

Esther Schreiber

I do not see any dark clouds on the horizon for Microsoft. I think it's straight shooting, straight up.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Carrie Brownstein

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

Arsene Wenger

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

Anton Corbijn

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Gaston Gaudio

I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.