Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benigno Aquino III

I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.

Benigno Aquino III

We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.

Iain McGilchrist

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

Idina Menzel

I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

Ibrahim Rugova

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.

This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

Ian Schrager

I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Ian MacKaye

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

Gerry Harvey

All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone.

Eddie Huang

I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.

Ed Wood

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Flea

It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

George Muller

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

Gary Johnson

The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.

Uzo Aduba

I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Uzo Aduba

The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

Utkarsh Ambudkar

You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

Madame de Stael

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Ulrich Beck

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

Luke Scott

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.

Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.

Malala Yousafzai

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

Eve

I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side projects don't because it's so personal. I write the words. Music is like my diary. It's my therapy.

Evan Williams

People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.