Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin O'Leary

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

John James Audubon

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

Our kids have shown a great deal of desire to be successful. We have good numbers and are having fun. Success breeds success.

Overall, the U.S. breeding herd has been trending lower as a result of the sow herd shifting to Canada and as a result of higher productivity.

Rudyard Kipling

Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.

Some of these collections have taken years to accumulate. We had five species of freshwater stingray. We had dozens of breeding projects over the last 15 years. We had a jellyfish gallery 10 years in the making. All that's gone.

It is not breeding quickly enough. It is being caught out in the wild and it is not recovering from the fishing pressures on the east coast.

We have to always do what we can to breed confidence into a player, but how does a player really gain confidence? It's being successful. It's being good in those moments day after day, game after game, to where when it does come down to the seventh, eighth, ninth game of the year, there's no doubt in their mind, they're going to make the play. It comes down to confidence.

Seth Shostak

Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because their own reproductive machinery is on the blink; (2) They want Earth's resources; or (3) They want the Earth. All of it.

Kylie Bax

My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.

Kym Whitley

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

Martin Freeman

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

One very obvious indication elephants don't do well in captivity is the fact that zoos are having so much trouble breeding them.

Leon Uris

My guiding thought throughout was that the real Marine story had not been told. We were a different breed of men who looked at war in a different way.

Perhaps this is signaling a reversal of the longer-run trend of the breeding herd moving away from the eastern Corn Belt. In 1990, 27 percent of the U.S. breeding herd was in the eastern Corn Belt. That portion declined steadily to a low of only 17.2 percent in 2004.

Sharon Kay Penman

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

She's really doing New York. This is the toughest breed to catch, and she's traveling.

When you're able to come back in the fashion that we did, it breeds confidence.

Twyla Tharp

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Josh McCown

When you compete and put that out there, it's going to breed some success." ()

John McDonald

We normally have two breeds hit the century mark, but we've never had four. That's pretty impressive.

I think he has a lot more confidence . . . because you gain that confidence each year you are in it as a head coach. He's more confident because he's had success. In coaching, success breeds success.

I think, from experience, success breeds success. When you get a great program, you don't have to recruit.

Well, Chicago's a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many different kinds of people there. It breeds a certain self-confidence and a willingness to work hard for what you want. I don't know, maybe they put something in the water -- the river is green.

The more water you have, the more breeding grounds you have for mosquitoes.

It's never a negative for the teams coming through. What we're finding is success breeds success.

It's real hard to prove the lineage of a dog. There's probably 40 different breeds that look like a pit bull. Even an expert could look, and there's no way he could be 100-percent certain.

Sathya Baba

Desire is the worst enemy; it ruins many a human life. Desire when fulfilled breeds further desire.

Jeff Lemire

It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'