Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hardy

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Geoff Garin

The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power. This is really an argument not about fighting terrorism but about checks and balances and unbridled government authority.

Barack Obama

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

Carl Sagan

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

John Roberts

The argument of 'We're bigger' is becoming less credible as the open-source movement takes hold. Using your financial might as the basis for justifying your value proposition is not going to withstand this shift.

Pat Riley

The argument is they know what they're supposed to do. At least they tell you, 'We know what we're supposed to do.' So you back off a little bit on the real big muscle work that could cause them injury.

Richard Yamarone

The argument is that Venezuela is not willing or they're not going to be able to (comply with the cuts). Here it is eight, nine days later and they're already backing out. We knew it wasn't going to last, but this is a little on the ridiculous side.

Ralph Catalano

The argument is that in most species, males will compete with each other for females, and females prefer robust males.

Kevin Landis

The argument for optimism is stronger today than it was a year ago. I'm happy having most of my money invested in tech.

Gareth Williams

The overall distribution looks heavily biased towards governments and academia.

Noah Feldman

For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office.

Dylan Walsh

We've made so much headway with storytelling - mostly on cable, let's be honest - but also on the networks and, you know, I think it's about time that the leads are women. I'm not a woman, so I'm a bit biased - I wouldn't mind if a few roles were left over for men.

Paul Di Filippo

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.

Geoff Mulgan

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Hedi Reynolds

We continue to see bias to the buying side, but it's less drastic than yesterday. We're in a wait-and-see mode with earnings, and we're seeing a little profit taking today. ... The jury is still out on how the rest of the earnings will be.

Wim Duisenberg

We feel confirmed in our view that we have found the right tone in the markets over the last few months, ... Our tightening bias has slightly strengthened since July.

Steve Burns

We can't ever have the doc think the device is biased in one way or another. Few of the large pharmaceutical organizations have not approached us.

Stanton Glantz

It is biased too heavily toward the private sector.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

Tony Crescenzi

The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.

Carl Sagan

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Antoine Lavoisier

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

James Niosi

We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.

Bob McMurray

We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.

Mark Rosenker

We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail.

David Rosenberg

With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside.

Idina Menzel

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film.

Zoe Kravitz

I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.

William Taylor

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

Vanessa Hudgens

I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.

Brittany Snow

I think my least favorite hair color was the hair color that I had in 'Pitch Perfect 2.' They really wanted me to be dark red, and I wanted to be lighter like I was in the first movie, but they didn't want that. But I rocked some light red for a year, after it faded.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

Catullus

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Cecelia Ahern

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

Clive Thompson

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Juvenal

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

Richard Flanagan

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

Matthew Storin

Obviously, each of them violates the sacred trust that the Globe has with its readers.

William Gray

The rest of the globe that has 88% of the tropical storms hasn't changed, ... If I'm proven wrong, I will jump off the highest peak in Colorado.

Anna Kendrick

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

Anthony Horowitz

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

Gillian Zinser

I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting.

Mike Quigley

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.

Bill Hicks

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

Orlando Bloom

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

Peter Singer

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

Paul Bloom

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

Olivia Newton-John

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Alejandro Thiermann

There is much talk about humans but not about birds.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Amy Adams

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Tony Lentini

Most of our oil production is shut in, and about 80 percent of our natural gas.

Brad Zeigel

Whitney is pretty natural back there, but she'd rather be on the field.

Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Mike Greene

Well, if you have a goalie like Colin, it's a natural choice. We don't plan on high-scoring games. It's just not what we plan to do.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Ned Yost

We were getting short out there. You can't keep pushing it.

Rudy Murillo

We're really pushing this year to get the youth involved.

Bob Lachky

We're really pushing this hard, and we're starting to see some momentum.

G. H. Hardy

I think this is as much symbolic as anything. But it's still important, and I understand why Sen. Byrd would push for this.

John Danforth

We are not suggesting the resignation or pushing for the resignation of the secretary-general,

Malik Rose

We pushed it and got up the floor. Now we just have to get into something.

Charles Lee

We have to try to get stops and push it on our terms. That's what we talk about, on our terms.

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Geoff Coulson

The weather has been pretty amazing. It's much warmer than normal.