Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Ratti

The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

Without God, how can I find peace? There is nowhere else to go. Those who have tasted the sublime essence of His Love, remain satisfied and fulfilled. They renounce their selfishness and conceit, and they pray, God, please attach me to the hem of Your robe. Those whom the Husband Lord has united with Himself, shall not be separated from Him again.

With so much personal history attached to the site, assuring that the property went to a good home and a good use was of utmost importance to Bill Sears.

John Cole

Within the team, they are looking around for a leader. We need someone to stand up and take charge, someone that we can attach ourselves to.

Jeff Weiner

Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing.

The tactic of attaching riders to the budget is brilliant.

The Supreme Court found the error in decision-making at the Governor's level; it did not attach unconstitutionality to the steps taken by the Center.

Carrie Coon

I've never felt terribly attached to acting because I always feel like the world is really big and really interesting, and there are a lot of places that I can put my energy and be fulfilled.

They're fairly easy. Once the beer is gone, you cut a hole in the bottom and attach it to a ball cap.

It really comes down to using publicly available statistics for the games - and the names that are attached to those statistics.

George Washington

Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

George Washington

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

Octave Mirbeau

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.

I know all the bags there at that time ... were hand searched and had someone attached to those bags.

Sue Grafton

Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

John Carroll

The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

Geoff Mulgan

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

Peace Pilgrim

You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.

David Lewis

The medium does convey a large part of the message. There is a ladder of emotional temperature attached to communications, and e-mail tend to the coldest of the lot.

The evil doers, the ignorant, the lowest persons who are attached to demonic nature, and whose intellect has been taken away by Maya do not worship or seek Me.

The True Guru, becoming merciful, has fulfilled my desires. He has attached me to the hem of His robe, and I have obtained the nine treasures.

Jan Egeland

These are people who have a strong attachment to their ancestral homes,

This is newer, fresher comedic turf to be playing on. The fact that Ivan is attached only gives me more confidence.

This helps people a lot. They feel attached to the success of the company.

Sathya Baba

The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes.

Mike Birbiglia

The Hollywood model is to develop scripts for 10 years, sell them, transfer them, attach this actor, then attach a director. This isn't what I'm about. I'm much more of a creator and a doer.

Jessica Valenti

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

The drivers get so attached to their routes, to their deliveries. They get to know their folks.

Joe Vitale

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

The issue was that the text of the referendum had to be attached to the signature sheets, and it was only attached to two of the sheets, making only a handful of the signatures valid,

Pema Chodron

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.