Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Nate Meerstein

We wanted to make sure we proved a point to whoever we were going to be playing on Saturday night. And let them know that we know how to play and we're playing at a pretty good level right now, contrary to what people think or have been saying about us this year.

Jacques Chirac

(It) is contrary to the wishes of the (U.N.) Security Council and the international community,

Rene Preval

We are not the party of violence. On the contrary we are victims of violence by others.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

George Bernard Shaw

No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Elliot Perlman

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

William Shockley

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

Brian Kernighan

No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.

Daniel Kahneman

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Charles Golvin

Microsoft in the long term wants the kind of strong position in mobile devices that it has in PCs,

Robert Kiyosaki

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Michael Gartenberg

The problem was that the devices weren't very good, the screens were terrible, the prices were too high and there was a terrible selection of content.

Mark Murray

It doesn't do us any good to hide our head in the sand with regard to what is hazardous. The manufacturers of these devices need to take responsibility for phasing out the use of toxic materials and for taking back their devices.

Ken Dulaney

Those input devices haven't been perfected like the mouse has. They're not as easy to move the cursor with.

Ha-Joon Chang

Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.

Becky G

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

Vince Gilligan

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

Bethany Hamilton

The end...is just the beginning

Aaron Small

That was huge; that play right there gives them their fourth run if they score it, and it ends an inning, ... Any time you make a play like that, in a game like this, it swings the momentum to the team that makes that play.

Shanna Zolman

We could have the most difficult, roughest experience throughout my senior year. But if it all ends the way we want it to end ? in the very end with the NCAA Tournament ? it's all worth it.

Scott Turow

There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There's less of that in 'Innocent,' and deliberately so.

Jason Witten

We have a good era of tight ends right now,

Glenn Greenwald

Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.

Allen Michel

Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much.

Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

Virgil

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Peter O'Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Ann Rice

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.

Robert Preston

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

Jane Goodall

We reckon that in about 20 years there'll be none left.

English Proverbs

One of these day is none of these days.

Mike Kuntz

For whatever reason none of us had the sense to make it come together until yesterday.

Skip Brock

He hasn't said one word about it. Honestly, none of us even realized it at the time.

Caitlyn Jenner

I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.

Jillian Rose Reed

I don't drink any soda. None at all. Just water with lemon. If I need something different: iced tea. I don't have anything like protein shakes.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Thought is the measure of life.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Milan Mandaric

My thoughts are now and always will be with George,

Don Cooper

My thoughts are here, and I want to be here, ... I want to win this now, here. That's my only focus.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Karen Rafalowitz

There are a lot of thoughts right now on what we can do. There's just not as much manpower.

Proverb Proverb

The one who wills is the one who can.