Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Donahue

I think the honor should be bestowed on those who are deserving of the honor. I don't think that it the case in this situation.

Francis Bradley

I am glad to think my work has been of use to anyone. But that it deserves the time & trouble involved in an elaborate study I find difficult to believe. In other words the same pains bestowed on one of the well-known masters in the subject would in my opinion be better rewarded.

Bible Bible

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

William H. Seward

The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator if the universe.

Charles Glover Barkla

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

Ann Voskamp

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Joss Whedon

The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of a show creator being anything other than a name people recognize on the screen was completely new.

Kage Baker

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

Thomas Heatherwick

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Peter Roskam

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

Nick Russo

We want to preserve and protect Mississippi's rich architectural and archaeological heritage as communities restore and rebuild.

Barbra Streisand

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Drew Gilpin Faust

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future

Anthony Kennedy

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Alice Temperley

You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

Tinie Tempah

When I feel like I'm renowned enough, I'd love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.

Maria Montessori

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

Ted Cruz

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

Marsha Daughenbaugh

Some of the heritage is traced back to the great-grandparents.

Anton LaVey

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Salmon P. Chase

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

Pat Buchanan

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

Leos Carax

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Islam Karimov

We have not made commitments to make our territory and airspace available,

Thomas Huxley

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Stacy Schiff

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

Scott Weiland

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

Michael Crichton

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.