Famous Quotes & Sayings

Your grandchild understands that money can grow with something called interest. That's a powerful concept for a 5-year-old.

John Piper

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

We dealt with so many environmental issues. I was enamored by the whole concept of environmental issues.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

When you're an economist trained in conceptual stuff, you tend to be less intuitive. You fall back on this conceptual framework that the profession has invested a lot of time in.

Tao Lin

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

The extent to which he used the State of the Union to launch and define the 'ownership society' concept is important because if you take it to its natural extreme, the ownership society would essentially replace the 'Great Society. That's a major shift from where we've been.

enough to validate the concept and to get us thinking about expansion.

Engagement is one of the most important and challenging issues facing our clients, and one of the most talked about concepts in the industry today. Everyone wants to better understand how effectively messages are received and how program environment impacts the process. This project will provide new insights into the critical links between the programs and commercials.

English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.

During these negotiations, there has been a lot of discussion about pensions. What hasn't received much discussion is the concept of balance,

Everything that we do in this partnership will first be executed in this store. It will be a way for us to communicate our concepts to our consumers.

Even kids as young as nine years are learning about gambling. They may not be gambling with money, but they're learning concepts of gambling. They see it.

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad

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Tradition drives these international markets very, very hard. The concept is interesting, but inevitably, they will find it as difficult, if not more difficult than Europe.

We wanted the team concept in order to initiate discussion and dialogue between the kids. The concept was really to get the kids to talk about this.

We wanted residential. We wanted people living down here that would support the concept of historic preservation, urban living and neighborhoods.

To some degree, ... this election is a referendum on what people think about Arnold's concept of reform.

James J. Gibson

At one extreme stands the fact that educated adults have a conception of space, i.e., mathematical or geometrical space, Euclidean, Cartesian, non-Euclidean, etc.

Concepts are more reality-based, because it costs so much money to develop them. We use them as a learning tool. We'd sorely miss the opportunity if we didn't listen to people.

Continue looking at that whole concept of the fox watching the henhouse.

Juan Goytisolo

Count Julian is, simultaneously, a work of fiction and a work of criticism, which defies deliberately a tyrannical conception of genre.

One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

Peter Lindbergh

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

Russell Crowe

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

To watch 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile' should be fun. We want people to come and enjoy the show. The concept is something extraordinary. It's comical but has a very intriguing twist to it.

Tyler Hamilton

With regard to my case, the concept has been called a 'sign of the apocalypse' and listed under the 'News of the Weird,'

We feel this is a very promising concept for a vaccine for traveler's diarrhea.

We copied some of their tactics, especially the concept of bundling small contributions.

There was a lot of excitement and it was, it is, a very intriguing, creative concept. But there is a whole degree of reality from concept to a plan that is practical.

There's a danger of exploitation when you get the galleries and museums involved and it's being sensationalized. I don't feel that's what Arline is doing with this show at all. This population is isolated. They are outside the mainstream, but the whole point of this show is to create a bridge, which sort of flies in the face of the whole concept of outsider art.