Famous Quotes & Sayings

Talcott Parsons

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Sun Tzu

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Roy Moore

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

Steve Buscemi

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Keith Stanfield

They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms.

Ralph Bakshi

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Jo Brand

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

Alphonso Jackson

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

Ida B. Wells

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Bear Grylls

The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

William H. Macy

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

Sufjan Stevens

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions and institutions, whereas I was rebelling against the upheaval and uncertainty in my family.

Seth Shostak

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Barbara Walters

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Cliff Stearns

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

Tamara Tunie

The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

Rita Mae Brown

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Eric Topol

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

Kate Forsyth

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Georg Buchner

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Simon Sinek

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

Milan Kundera

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Daniel Craig

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

Bob Riley

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

John Milton

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Confucius

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Nat King Cole

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

Theodor Adorno

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Susan Minot

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

Jean Giraudoux

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

Oscar Robertson

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

David Chase

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

Lea Salonga

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

Brian Mulroney

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

Chris Lowe

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

Dan Brown

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

Travie McCoy

We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea about any of that. We didn't know how to count bars or how to write what's considered a well-formatted pop song.

Emile M. Cioran

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Vince McMahon

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

Robert Reich

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

Ulrich Beck

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

Elaine Pagels

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written.

Sara Blakely

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Ron Wyden

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.

Brian Skerry

Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Azar Nafisi

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.