Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

Jon Nadler

We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.

Ruth Ginsburg

This case, here for the second time, raises a question 'of profound importance to the nation. Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests.

Joseph Rotblat

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.

Jennifer Grant

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

John F. Kerry

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

Matt Gallagher

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Rajeev Sharma

Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.

John Galbraith

Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Edith Wharton

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Bess Myerson

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

Bertolt Brecht

Boy Meets Girl, So What?

C. S. Lewis

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Cassandra Wright

When he found out, he had a broken heart. He gave up.

Charlotte Bronte

But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current...

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Rachel Carson

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Hanno Langenhoven

Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible.

Eddie Izzard

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Mark Cuban

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Diego Klattenhoff

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Earl Weaver

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Benjamin Franklin

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

Ben Bernanke

The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.

Charlie Trotter

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

Bob Iger

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Chaske Spencer

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

Chua Bin

A strong tech recovery is lifting fourth-quarter manufacturing and GDP growth. Pharmaceuticals have also come back with a vengeance in the second half, after languishing in the first half.

Alan Davidson

It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standard.

Andruw Jones

They're a real solid team now, Maybe I'm not lifting enough weights.

Tyler Rahn

It was tough watching my teammates out there running and lifting weights and doing things that I couldn't do.

Timothy Noah

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

John Kneup

She was always there. There've been several times it's just been the two of us lifting weights.

J. Horton

I wasn't sure if he was going to pitch (tonight). He tweaked his back lifting weights and it was 50-50 if he would pitch.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Roger McGuinn

Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Dian Fossey

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Bob Seger

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Doug MacLean

Absolutely, absolutely, totally, totally false. I'm wondering how to say it any stronger.

Tom Petersen

They (the stores) don't have to be totally upscale, but we need some better things.

Helene Cixous

It is totally different from my philosophical work,

Shinji Mori

It's two totally different things. There was nothing wrong until I got injured.

Bill Cline

It's not one of those things where we baby-sit them for a weekend. It's a total training process.

Brian Orser

It's not who does the most tricks, but the total package.

Gary Smith

You don't see damage. You just see total destruction.

Dan Stessel

It's a first step. It's not a total shutdown.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

John Gandy

As we got toward the end of the year, he was indicating some things he had to complete.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

David Dearborn

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

Larry Davis

Everything has to go perfect. We're working toward that date. We'll see if we make it.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.