Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Cornelius

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

Bertrand Russel

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Winston Churchill

It is not given to the cleverest and the most calculating of mortals to know with certainty what is their interest. Yet it is given to quite a lot of simple folk to know everyday what is their duty

John Treanor

I don't know that we have any certainty about what's going to happen in the future.

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Pete Nicholas

Our $80 per share offer for Guidant is compelling. We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.

Tim Barnett

Climate warming is a certainty for our future and ... the long-term prognosis is clear and very dire.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

Pitt elder

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

Michael Young

Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent.

Steven Chercover

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser. But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

John King

We feel it?s our duty to do it because it?s God?s work.

Ken Starr

I think it was proper what I did. I think I had a duty to do what I did.

Idi Amin

It is our duty not to squander opportunities for reconciliation, the time for reconciliation has long been here and we have squandered it,

David Mpanga

It is our duty not to let the state off the hook, and we will not concede to do without them.

Robert Walters

The ranch has a duty to make sure its hillside stays on its property.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Chip Durham

I think that gives them an incentive to go out and play hard everyday and try to have a great season. That way at the end of the year, they're rewarded for it.

Martha Stewart

I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.

Elizabeth White

He was in the fourth grade and I was in the second grade. We saw each other everyday and grew up together.

Reggie Sanders

He's playing like an everyday player. He's stepping up big. We all know he could have played every day with another ballclub.

Michael Lynch

He had the normal everyday worries everyone has.

Trina

I'm a huge seafood lover; I could cook it everyday.

Robert Motherwell

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Wallace Stevens

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

William Hung

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

Kate Philips

He is waiting on the folks from New Jersey to move forward with the dredging project.

Ben Crump

What you all have done in the last 48 hours, that's history. It is history because it's the young folks who are doing the leading today.

Ken Jackson

I think it's hard for new businesses, especially younger folks who could make more money somewhere else.

Matt Kleinschmit

It is a first. It will be interesting to see whether or not folks pay for this content.

Byron Davis

We try to help folks out when they're sick or down. It's part of being a good neighbor to help people out when they need it.

Andrew Hudson

What we are trying to do is meld these folks back into a community, rather than putting them in a big pen,

Andy Graham

We take the mobile phone with the GPS capabilities and turn it into a lifestyle recorder for those who run or cycle, or even walk. A lot of folks want to see how well they're doing on a mile-to-mile basis.

Chris Stidham

It is something we've struggled with. We have two perspective folks right now. We're hoping to have signed one by next week.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Katori Hall

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.

Amelia Torres

What we do when we investigate mergers is that sometimes we might feel the need to get more information on a given product or geographical market and we have to get that from the companies.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

Rick Riordan

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

Benjamin Franklin

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Euripides

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Homer

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Ernie Els

I did see the changes, obviously, and they are quite major.

Jim Sturgess

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

Adam Estrada

He had quite a day. He was the star who shone for us Saturday.

Joe Clark

I think it is too simple to suggest that it's simply Mr. Harper's fault.

Darius Kasparaitis

We have to be more gritty, more hitting. We probably have to play much simpler hockey.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard John Neuhaus

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

Richard Hofstadter

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Richard Dawkins

I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about life. All I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively the more you read about and study what is known about life and evolution. I want to add one thing more. The more you understand the significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the agnostic position and towards atheism. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richelle Mead

The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make? The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them.