Famous Quotes & Sayings

To define a miracle as a violation or suspension or overriding of natural laws is already to presuppose what nature is like (namely, that nature is a closed causal nexus governed by inviolable rules). It is also to impose prior limits on divine action.

While we generally don't preannounce our quarterly results, given yesterday's market volatility and given the fact that our Miami corporate office was closed and management was inaccessible because of Hurricane Rita, we felt it prudent to preannounce our third quarter results,

Amanda Harlech

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

Seth Shostak

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.

Under the old Soviet system, with closed borders, they didn't have a real problem or issue. Nobody crossed the line under the Soviet system. They knew what would happen. But once they opened the borders, theoretically at least, that all changed.

Andre Gide

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

Ciaran Hinds

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

This show, by all intents and purposes, should have closed on the 21st. But if we get them in, they will spread the word. I'm positive.

Ron Moody

There are literally hundreds ... of legitimate public right of ways closed to public use.

John McDonald

We will be closed for several months. The worst thing was the water damage.

Bill Clinton

Those same closed economies, isolated from the risks of the global economy, have also been isolated from its fullest awards.

We said we couldn't be complacent. We were letting them (Sandburg) do whatever they wanted. We just had to step up the 'D.' We closed down their shooters and wouldn't let them get in the post.

We're not one closed monolithic system where you have to use their device, their software and their service,

We think the major shelters will be closed next week.

Pat Burns

We've closed the gap with the state to some extent, ... But I still don't want to make inferences that are too broad.

Evangelista Torricelli

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

Conor Oberst

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

We were very undisciplined in the first half. I wasn't happy with how we closed the first quarter but that little run gave us some daylight.

We don't open that thing very often. It's the only manually operated gate in the system. Sometimes it's hard to get it closed again.

Kenny Phillips

We can't show everything. There are a lot of things when practice is closed that we can't show out here.

We closed the gap in terms of participation. When I got here it was more like 65/35.

We closed that season out with the first game of this season. There is always the danger, that in the back of your head you won't be ready for this game, but I think ... everybody is really focused on the task at hand.

Eddie Jordan

We closed out two good quarters. We had some runs and we kind of absorbed their runs and we made the important free throws.

We closed no large deals in the quarter.

Joffrey Lupul

We closed ground. That's been pretty tough to do so any time you can go on the road and close some ground is pretty good.

We closed down our engineering department over the summer because it has been inefficient for a number of years.

We closed 100 software license deals in fourth quarter including three deals in excess of $1 million. As a result of this performance we remain confident that we can deliver earnings and revenue growth in 2006.

E. B. White

We are coming into a challenging part of the cycle. That's good for us in the long run because 10 of our competitors will have closed up shop.

We put ourselves in position to win the game, and we closed out an opponent.

Helen Keller

When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us.

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us

Helen Keller

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

You have an oil market that is quite tight in the products side, particularly in the U.S.. Then you have a hurricane which closed eight refineries. The market looks at the situation and realizes supplies are even tighter. Prices will only fall if demand declines.