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,

Yoshinori Ono

We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.

Matt Damon

We actually begged him to switch roles because he originally cast us flip-flopped and we both felt like we'd done that before. So we asked him and it's more challenging and more fun for everybody if they're doing stuff a little differently.

Christy Fusco

We always ask patrons what's going on. We have a small percentage of chronically overdue books.

Mads Mikkelsen

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Ron Beck

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

Raul Cisneros

The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.

K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Sandra Sanchez

We are proud of being in this country. We ask that all Americans try to be united as humans. Don't look for differences.

Kevin Bacon

We're famous for going to the hotel rooms and actually cleaning them up.

Mike McAleer

As we've learned more through the years, we're committed to cleaning up these environments that we've impacted.

Dana Walker

It's just a matter of our guys going back and watching film and regrouping, ... It's just about cleaning up the mistakes. We have Martin and Jed, but we have inexperienced guys at key positions, so we are trying to get some continuity going.

Nicole Andrews

It's not just cleaning up, but helping all those folks who were displaced. We've only just begun.

Sean Moore

Forget corporations--for NGOs, for whom an important part of their revenue is government money, the cost is tremendous. When we talk about cleaning up the procurement system, it's very important that you don't create an environment in which it simply isn't worth it to try to work with the government.

John Robertson

They are really competitive. They have some cleaning up of their routines to do before then, but they should be ready by the time we leave for Las Vegas.

Cheryl Everall

There was no way that we would have thought that this was the scene where a horrible crime had occurred, with the maid out there cleaning the floor.

Joe Williams

There's been a big improvement in the past year in terms of getting rid of the drugs, the dealers, cleaning up the projects. I don't think there is anything more that they can do that they are (already) doing, because they are doing a good job.

Dan Fulscher

At first we estimated the damage to be around $9 million last week, but that number has increased. By tomorrow night we should have all the debris cleared from the roadways, while the entire cleaning and rebuilding could take months, even years.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Ruth Coleman

We are proud to be able to offer such a wide variety of maps and guides for people to plan their visit, as well as souvenirs that hold memories of the enjoyable time they had.

Henry Samueli

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Kelly Gilmore

Whenever you have an evergreen property like Superman, retailers will enjoy enormous successbecause recognition is so high.

Gail Kautz

We were always very ambitious. We enjoy working hard. We had a lot of fun -- we're not done yet.

Alexa Vega

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

Nick Robinson

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

Lennon Parham

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Marc Warren

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Jenna Morasca

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Chris Carr

It's just crazy. This is worse than 9-11, with everything that's going on with that.

Ali Kerimli

It's even worse than our most pessimistic expectations.

John Updike

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

Angie Murphy

I told them we can't play any worse and we're still in the game.

Michael Boyle

The whiter it is, the worse it is,

Ann Hartman

We don't want anything worse than we've already gotten.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Andy Roddick

I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match.

Thomas Cromwell

He said it was much worse than where we were, ... I didn't want to go in.