Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Badaracco

The people in power are the people who are constantly able to discover new and relevant knowledge, which is really tied to the capacity to learn.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

Sugar Ray Leonard

For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.

Sue Monk Kidd

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.

Sharon Stone

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

Selman Waksman

With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.

Barbara Tuchman

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Austin Grossman

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

Bruce Dickinson

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Benjamin Franklin

Cunning proceeds from lack of capacity.

Ayn Rand

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Carl von Clausewitz

Knowledge must become capability.

Clive Woodward

Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

Nancy Gibbs

Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

Lysander Spooner

No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.

We're not going to hand him anything; he will have to earn it, ... He will have a chance to show what he's capable of and what he can contribute.

Curtis Mayfield

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

Chuck Todd

Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?

Diana Nyad

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

Paul Bloom

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

Paramahansa Yogananda

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

Nick Woodman

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Nick Woodman

In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.

Nick Woodman

I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.

Pele

At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team.

Brevin Knight

We played well and stayed within ourselves. We played the way we did during the three-game winning streak. We gutted it out, we continued to play hard, we rotated on defense and we did the things that we are capable of doing. I'm a lot happier with our effort tonight, and it just leads for better things to come after this All-Star break.

V. E. Schwab

I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

Trent Reznor

It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.

Vint Cerf

With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information?

When you are at home, your troubles can never defeat you. - Cape Coast, Ghana

Mike Holloway

We've got a lot of work to do. Right now, we have guys doing stuff that we just don't do here at the University of Florida. We need to start getting better and get some intensity. I know what this group is capable of and right now they are not meeting my expectations.

Noam Chomsky

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.