Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ramana Maharshi

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

Peter Singer

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.

Lenny Harris

Miguel is the type of player who has to carry himself first. Everybody knows what an impact player he is on the field, but it takes a different kind of guy to lead in the locker room. He could be a leader. It all depends if he accepts that role or not.

S. Hughes

Michael will be offered a new deal and we hope he accepts it. It's early days yet and there will be discussions on all points. There's a lot of things that need to be talked about but we hope that will resolve itself and Mickey will be here next season.

David Gibb

Jonathan controls the front seven, gets everyone lined up and takes care of the blitz package. He's been a great leader. He's an outstanding young man. He accepts coaching. He's done everything I've asked.

Marisa Etmanski

The premier said sometimes people say things they shouldn't and they regret it and he accepts that, but he's part of this team and they will get through it.

Larry Pleau

Like that of all players, Al's career has unfortunately and finally come to an end. However, it gives us great satisfaction to know that his unparalleled expertise and experience will continue to benefit the Blues as he accepts a new position on our staff.

Graeme Smith

I won't surprise me at all if he accepts the offer to become England's bowling coach.

Cloris Leachman

I think (Ruth) accepts her fate, ... But she knows she's not happy and that's about it.

Tina Brown

When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.

Ryan Stasik

That was so long ago, we don't think about it. We like the scene, but it's not diverse enough.

Patti Smith

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

Bob Marcusse

We have a large, diverse and well-educated work force that is highly productive, and that helps.

John Largay

We have a great lineup of music. We tried to keep the theme of diverse music, universal appeal.

Rich Campbell

With the support of our loyal guests, we've been able to grow our offerings from a single resort in Mexico to nine diverse destinations throughout the world in 2006.

Dennis Hayes

We have a very diverse parade. Everyone is welcome.

Victor LaValle

Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

Mark Swezey

We hope to be expanding. We're starting off with three theater productions this year. We hope to expand it to four next year. We just want to have a real diverse season.

Frank McNeil

I have always tried to get Tim to be a little more open-minded and diverse in his thinking,

Constance Wu

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Faye Carnes

I have a gentlemen friend who encourages me to play golf too he plays as well. He's just a little older than I, but he's an inspiration to me.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.

Jim Spearman

If it encourages military people to vote, that is great.

Ian Gold

Just the simple fact that he still goes out there and encourages me and Al, it tells me a lot.

Eric Warner

I think it's a really fun idea. It encourages a youthful spirit. I haven't had any entries yet, but it may be a day-of thing. . . . I really hope that you enter.

Karen Hughes

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

Fred Savage

That actually encourages us to feel that we are on the right track, that we are doing something different, so it's encouraging when they laugh at the wrong places, or don't laugh at all sometimes.

Glenn Crooks

Last year I don't think she was as mobile or as strong as she is now. It took her a part of last season to improve. We are fortunate to have her in the program because she knows what it takes to win and encourages her teammates to do the same.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Zhang Yadong

We could learn more lessons from the losses than from the victory. We had enough failures in the past,

Rick Perry

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Richard Russo

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Maude Adams

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Mike Berry

It is a formality that the new application will be rejected as Jason doesn't meet the criteria, so it will go straight to a review panel.

David Copperfield

Marriage is like a formality for me.

C. Wright Mills

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Audre Lorde

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

Estelle

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

Herbie Hancock

I was making a hierarchy out of music, and it's ridiculous.

Deepak Chopra

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

Murray Rothbard

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

Jean Ziegler

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Jose Saramago

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Julie Burchill

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Rolf Harris

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.

J. J. Johnson

Using Guadalajara as a hub is no problem. It's a safe airport.

Curtis Brown

We have one request, ... We'd like you to send a note to Hubble to get ready, because we're on our way!

Nancy Currie

Hubble has always been this icon in terms of a mission assignment.

Dan Woods

Frankly, if we go by the size, we'd prefer the Hub site.

Walt Whitman

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe.

Jeff Walker

We've become the hub of campus. This place is buzzing.

Dan Woods

With the Hub site, it's a matter of price.

Edwin Powell Hubble

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Ernie Carson

If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

E. O. Wilson

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

Bill McKibben

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Alan Greenspan

often in ways that were not readily foreseeable a year ago.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Rick Smolan

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

Michael Birch

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

Stephen Johnston

They don't have to wait for the silicon manufactured.

Peter Thiel

There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.

Carol Bartz

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.