Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Hawking

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Joan Rivers

Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job.

Brian Selznick

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

Henry Petroski

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.

Henry B. Eyring

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

Rafael Benitez

We need to change things and to improve, but you cannot talk about the work-rate because the team worked very hard.

We have managed to secure sponsors and we are going to unveil the amounts next (this) week. At the moment, I cannot reveal how much these companies are pouring into our Davis Cup team but they have made a commitment to sponsor.

When the devil cannot stay us from a good work, then he laboureth by all means to make us proud of it.

Kamisese Mara

We will have a dialogue and see what they offer, ... I cannot say I will put back the government that has caused all these problems.

Unfortunately, I cannot stand on the podium. That means that God showed me to work harder for the next time.

Unfortunately I cannot disclose the end date of the promotion due to competitive reasons.

Ed Rendell

Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

Rahul Dravid

Two performances cannot take away anything, it is people's perception. Our performance still stands even if we lose these two games.

Eugene Hutz

Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape it. But I found that I liked it.

Clarence Darrow

First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Alexandra Stoddard

Your past is something you cannot change. You can't live it; it's dead.

Alex Berenson

Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.

Pearl S. Buck

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Peter Bondra

I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go,

Chiang Kai-shek

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.

David Duchovny

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

John Berger

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

Benjamin F. Wade

We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Barry Humphries

I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.

Barry Ritholtz

Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Alexey Miller

We met our partners in Europe, and they are signaling to us that supplies from traditional European gas production sources is falling, and falling substantially. Without new volumes of Russian gas, they simply cannot cope.

In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.

Adam Clarke

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.