Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Alex Tabarrok

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

Alan Greenspan

Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend ... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead,

Herb Guenther

We're going to seed the clouds. To what degree and how we do it and how we fund it is yet to be determined.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Tony Cristaldi

We'll be averaging about five degrees higher than normal.

Cesar Milstein

As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School.

Jean Nidetch

All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.

Joe Pistone

They say we're playing in a former minor league stadium that has short dimensions. With our pitching and hitting, that's a plus for us.

Frank Thompson

The number of former Anaconda workers has really thinned out in recent years,

Skip Snow

They are pets or descendants of former pets. They don't occur naturally here.

David Woodward

There were some strained relationships between the former leadership of the shelter and some members of the commission,

Chris Squire

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

Mary Jo White

As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Godfrey Leland

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Beth Brooke

Setbacks are just learning experiences.

Bernard Malamud

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside...

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Stephen Baker

This is a major milestone for AMD. This is the first time that a processor family, other than one manufactured by Intel, led the U.S. retail market.

Stephen Baker

This is a major milestone for AMD, ... This is the first time that a processor family, other than one manufactured by Intel, led the U.S. retail market.

Craig White

This led us to think outside of the box,

Jeff Jodon

It was a solid team effort, led by the throwers. They were just steadfast.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

Maggie Smith

Defensively, we stepped it up. Our post players were aggressive, and it led to a lot of points in transition.

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Josh Lewsey

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Louis C. K.

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

Bill O'Reilly

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

Bill Moyers

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Benjamin Harrison

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

Kirby Dick

The most unfortunate thing about the system is the secrecy of the board.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Nick Cook

The time for its secrecy is past. It's time for it to come into the light.

D. H. Lawrence

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

Thales

Conceal thy domestic ills.

George P. Shultz

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

Harrison Salisbury

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

William Hazlitt

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

Alan Watts

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

Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Howard Silverblatt

They're starting to spend some of the money,

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Tim Bell

Spend a little now, but you're going to get more for your buck.

Jose Canseco

Spend a Day with Canseco on the Hill.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Larry King

Some day, you're going to be vice president.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Diane Arbus

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Abraham Lincoln

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Alexander Pope

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Dean Martin

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.