Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Cornelius

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Henry Hyde

I'm opposed to censure, ... Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

Javier Solana

I have no information whatsoever that tells me with certainty that any of the accusations, allegations, rumors, that have taken place are true.

Milovan Djilas

I had to follow that road, even if my steps were confused and indecisive. Otherwise I would not remain a man in my own eyes. For if I know something with certainty and I am convinced of its truth, how can I deny it, hide it from my closest friends; from the world and from myself?

zenshine

In certainty there is limitation; in uncertainty there is the loving magic of infinity dancing with our desires.

Robert James

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Paul Phillips

I know with a pretty strong certainty that Paul Gregory House was the murderer. And if I have to try him again, I will do it.

Tom Robbins

Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for certainty sure can make things unsteady.

Dan Harmon

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

William James

I now perceive one immense omission in my psychology -- the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Bhagavad Gita

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Audre Lorde

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

Terry Fox

After meeting so many people around town that loved that station, the music and what it offered, I felt that St. Louis was craving a new smooth-jazz listening experience. I set out to create just that.

James Nesbitt

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

Joe Riley

Every day, the public needs to know the progress that's been made, ... They're craving information, every little thing.

Granth Sahib

Those who have departed, after craving for temporary wealth, have returned home without this temporary wealth.

Martin Binks

However, many times the craving passes only temporarily.

Christopher McQuarrie

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart's earnings were lower than a year ago, and the reason why they were lower is because there is a lot of money being invested in infrastructure. But it's going to pay huge dividends in the future, ... Kmart is finally very excellently positioned to turn around and create a very strong place in the sun.

Stephen Pagliuca

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

James Collins

I suspect they'll probably get a kick out of the illusions that can be created to give them a more total immersion experience as part of virtual reality,

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Craig Mattox

It can create a major headache. You can have six or eight people with the same ticket trying to sit in the same seat. At last year's SEC Championship football game, I confiscated around 70-75 counterfeit tickets. I had about 30 with the same seat location.

Samuel Berger

He used the most vicious form of nationalism to try to create an ethnic empire in the heart of Europe. He wanted a greater Serbia, and he wound up with a lesser Serbia.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Rod Keogh

Josh was desperate to play last Saturday and should be okay and Leigh is moving much more freely than he was.

Seth Payne

Ideally, you're desperate every week, ... It's hard to get a win in this league no matter how good you are, so whether you're 0-3 or 3-0, that next win is tough to come by.

Chris Connolly

He needs to train well, but it is probably doubtful to be honest. We'll give him every opportunity, he is desperate to play. It is probably less than 50-50.

Trent Reznor

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

John Kirkwood

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches,

Melanie Morgan

I knew at that point, I was in desperate trouble, and I knew I was sick and needed help. And I still didn't want to stop.

Paul Fronstin

These are a sign of how desperate we've become.

Mary Schuyler

And it wouldn't be a Desperate Housewives game if you couldn't try to steal a neighbor's husband, too.

Trent Hunter

We're not giving up in here. We've raised our level of intensity and we have to be desperate every shift. And we've been able to do that.

Rufus Wainwright

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

David Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Stanley Kunitz

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

John Steinbeck

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

Maureen Corrigan

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Lorrie Moore

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

Paul Rees

It was pretty shocking. Somewhere between pitiful and pantomime.

William James

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

Rob Bell

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Wayne Dyer

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

Willard Van Orman Quine

A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.

Saint Francis de Sales

In everything, love simplicity.

Zhang Ziyi

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

William Strunk, Jr.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Wendell Berry

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

W. Somerset Maugham

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Suzanne Williamson

Just make sure you throw out the bottles,

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Johnathan Joseph

He's been there. He's making sure we don't go into this thing blind.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Ralph Richardson

I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance,

Richie Sexson

I was wondering why, when he left, he kind of got the boos. I wasn't really sure of why exactly,

Gary Sanders

He was really on target. He made sure that he didn't let up even though we got the big lead.

Reuben Droughns

I don't know about that. I'm sure it'll get me some carries.