Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Wald

We have to get rid of those atomic weapons, here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.

Theodore William Richards

Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.

Ernest Lawrence

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

Lawrence Grossman

When you vaporize rock, there is very little hydrogen -- whereas 50 percent of the atoms in a rock are oxygen.

Helen Sharman

As the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere, it was coming in so fast, it heated up the surrounding atoms and molecules, and they became positively and negatively charged, and highly reactive, and began luminescing all around us.

Billy Rose

If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.

Democritus

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

Max Heindel

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. It is a healthy energy.

Lovie Smith

When you say the defense has carried us, that's what they're supposed to do. That's the strength of our team.

Jim McCormick

We have positive, enthusiastic learning centers in all our schools and that has carried over to Southern Lee, ... I'm hoping for a large turnout. Even people who don't or won't have children in school will have a very positive experience walking through Southern Lee High School. They will also see how schools have changed. As we consider renovations to Lee County High School, we will be looking at what we've done at Southern Lee." ()

Mahinda Rajapakse

We have planned to double and treble our efforts to overcome our constraints. Post-tsunami reconstruction will be carried out equitably in the South, the North and the East, in our country,

Scott Shane

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

Don Capshaw

The process started back in summer. We've talked about these things and carried them out. Number one was developing a Website where we could put all of our information out there and we've done that.

Tom Lehrer

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Ted Cruz

The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

Martin Sawyers

We know from inspections carried out on the entire pipeline and throughout Westport that we do not have any major leakage at all. The reality is we're putting it down to a dry spell and a very unusual spell.

Greg Johnson

We are going to stand fast and see that due process is carried out, recognizing the fact that there are some problems in that regard.

Roger Enrico

The creation of a closely aligned, separately managed bottler of this size would help us pursue consolidation opportunities and improve our performance in the marketplace.

Mark Blum

The process in Illinois is unique, and we're all closely following what is happening there.

James Thomas

We know we have to work very closely together and we're hoping the situation we experienced Friday won't be replicated.

Edward Brooke

My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.

John McCarthy

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Jamie Sandison

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

Jessica Nelms

We started the week off good, and now we want to finish it good. We don't want to let JM linger so closely this time.

Melaney Arnold

We're still obviously closely monitoring this. At this point, we still don't know exactly what's going on.

Solomon Makgale

There is no need to panic as the situation is under control and will be closely monitored daily until a solution is found.

Timothy Noah

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

Robert Webb

One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?

Herb Kohl

My hope is that the White House considers this concern,

Tom Minnery

Obviously the White House considers his voice to be important.

Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.

Julie Soderlund

The governor considers each piece of legislation on a case-by-case basis.

Jennifer Morcone

The government considers transportation workers a high priority.

Mikhail Zurabov

The government considers heart, kidney and liver transplants a priority, and these issues will be settled this year.

John Morgridge

When one considers great research institutes, one thinks of institutes on either coast. In the future, we want them to think of the University of Wisconsin.

John Mackey

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

Edvard Moser

Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

Bob Stevenson

We're going to cooperate with them every step of the way. This is a usual step in inquiries of this nature, I can't get into that right now.

Lionel Jospin

We expressed the wish that they (the United States) be with us, that we cooperate with them. It is vital that we have international cooperation with them,

Monica Lewinsky

I better not put one foot wrong, because the independent counsel is sitting there watching and he's already told me that this deal is gone if I don't cooperate with the House managers?

David Blair

I do not think the duty to cooperate necessarily includes the duty to include the state in the loop in the settlement process. These settlement negotiations sometimes extend over months and years. To have the state at the plaintiff 's side would be a logistical problem.

Richard Parsons

My daughter watches the news, ... I think kids today are pretty well-informed about what's going on in the world. Hopefully, they'll be a generation that's going to be more understanding, open and willing to cooperate to solve the problems we have.

Nicholas Graham

We have been approached by investigators. We did cooperate and provided information that was requested.

Michael Peterson

We're all cut-throat competitors. You can't always expect us to cooperate and lead the county out of congestion.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

Angelo Bitsis

We're not making any assumptions. What his intentions were, we don't know.

Bo Burnham

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Dan Brooks

You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared.

Tim Halstead

Our intentions are to someday have a property.

Ron Hebert

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

Tom Renney

I'm leaning toward Henrik, but we'll see. Those are my intentions at this time.

Dante Hall

I have no intentions on being a coach.

Brent Scowcroft

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

Edward Said

They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

Carl Jung

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

Bill Maher

For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.

Bill Maher

I said I didn't respect religion... and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer... So I don't respect our religions either. But I do believe it is a clash of civilizations, absolutely, between the Islamic world and the Western world. It has been going on for 1,000 years.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan’s constitution. He clearly can’t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.

Bill Vaughan

It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.

Bill Richardson

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

Dominique de Villepin

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Tom Tancredo

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Amber Frey

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,

George H. W. Bush

legal but taxed and regulated like other goods.

Robert Casey

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Alexei Navalny

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Nicholas Carbone

Right now it's not a legal town committee.

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Charlaine Harris

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

Carl Honore

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Irish Proverb

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

Charles Dickens

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's sinful.

Bertrand Russell

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Methods are the masters of masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Billy Connolly

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Brad Pitt

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Deepak Chopra

Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful.

Ban Ki-moon

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Jacques Chirac

There is still much to be done in the way of disarmament by peaceful means,

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Jeremy Shockey

We know he's up there smiling, ... But in the same sense, he's probably saying, 'Get ready for San Francisco.'

Lee Johnson

We'd get the shack arranged, get it ready to pull, and would find more damage, ... They used every trick in the book, but they got it moved.

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Brett Gardner

Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Camille Claudel

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Benjamin Franklin

What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.

Daniel Cabrera

We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Richard Caborn

We have had the pantomime. Let's now have the serious stuff.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going....we have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other

Aaron Swartz

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Alan Kay

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.

Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Alan Kay

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Ted Chiang

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.