Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Kudrow

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

Michael Leunig

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.

Niall Ferguson

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

Niall Ferguson

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.

We believe that it's important to recognize the extraordinary achievements of these students at the most formative moments of their careers, ... As juniors and seniors, they have started to determine the role they would like to play in shaping the future. The scholars we honor at this year's ceremony are on the path to becoming tomorrow's leaders.

We remain unconvinced that an acquirer would be interested in buying/merging with Hanson, unless the asbestos liabilities were capped in law. We continue to believe that the probability of asbestos reform becoming law in 2006 is extremely thin.

We're starting to come around as a team, we're really playing unselfish basketball. It's becoming a recurring story just about every game, we come in and play well together.

What we're seeing here is investors becoming increasingly nervous, awaiting the economic data tomorrow (Thursday). Profit warnings and future growth (concerns) are overshadowing the enthusiasm that we saw develop late yesterday -- it's a feeding process.

With this event, we're trying to open the door to people so they understand the whole idea of becoming a host family. This is about getting families interested in other cultures.

Eric S. Raymond

Worse, by the early 1990s it was becoming clear that ten years of effort to commercialize proprietary Unix was ending in failure.

Jennifer Dunn

We're still in a long-term drought, but short-term-wise, yes, the drought conditions have been eased. You can tell everything is greening up, and the fire threat is becoming very low.

Alex Smith

We're still close, ... I know the scores sometimes don't show that, but I think we're close to becoming a competitive team in the league.

We're starting to show the world. Nevada in particular is really becoming a serious renewable energy state.

We're seeing escorted tours becoming more popular in other destinations, but for us, they are declining in Hawaii.

Benjamin Whichcote

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

We are already conforming to and becoming a partner in the global non-proliferation regime,

There doesn't seem to be any real urgency for firms to start hiring, precisely at a time we're seeing a reemergence of people becoming interested in looking for a job, ... Put the two together, and you have a formula for higher unemployment.

Women were becoming more sassy and finding a voice for themselves. I can relate to that a lot.

We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are concerned with information about a person's individual medical condition becoming publicly known.

Saul Berman

We believe your grandchildren won't know what a TV is. Programs will become unrestricted by becoming more mobile, but programming will be freed as well from constraints.

We're going to have more people talking about the Fed becoming less aggressive, which will be neutral or negative for the market because the market has been feeding off low interest rates. I don't think the Fed commentary is going to be as predictable and direct as the last meeting.

Tom Johnston

Years ago it was pretty common to move for a job, but today, people are much more concerned about lifestyle, and location is now considered a major factor. Relocation is becoming a very big issue today.

Michael Jones

With the low returns being earned by dealers, particularly in the south east, the sums being offered by developers is becoming increasingly attractive. The next 6-months is certainly likely to prove decision time for many dealers.

We're hoping they will recommend civil unions becoming legal and established in the state of Oregon and discrimination becoming illegal.

We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial.

We're becoming very organized and making progress in support of each other.

Eric Larson

We're becoming more of a nursery county over time.

We're becoming more and more selective. There is long-term business in foreign-language films, but it's still very tough.

We're becoming more and more of a bedroom community than we already were.

We're becoming a lot more reliant on electronic record-keeping and the backups of that.

Mark Richards

We're becoming a good hockey team. You obviously want to win the games, but we're getting points over Jacksonville right now. It's a different feeling going into the locker room every night. A couple of months ago, we came into games hoping not to get embarrassed.

Jason Silva

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.