Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bhagavad Gita

Verily there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. One who becomes purified by Karma-yoga discovers this knowledge within (naturally) in course of time. (See also 4.31, and 5.06).

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

E. O. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

Sean McAlinden

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

Debbie Ford

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Carol Shields

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Neal Shusterman

I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.

Bruce Babbitt

The creation of the Grand Staircase was a major chapter in the history of our public lands,

Scott Westerfeld

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.

Helen Dunmore

Many chapters are headed by poem quotations. These epigraphs are another way of shining light on what is happening at this stage of the novel.

Chris Bell

There are other chapters to be written about that story.

Nan Stoltzenburg

Since the last meeting, you should have received from me comments on Chapter 7, which is the resources of community character.

Samantha Power

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

David Molina

The only way I would support a property tax is if the city was going to declare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy. We're not there yet.

Byron Katie

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Joel Sawyer

We're going to have to go to some kind of Plan B. The funding we have for this is totally dependent on the federal government.

John Lott

Many people found for the first time what it is like to totally dependent on themselves for protection. People put up signs that said 'Shotguns Inside' and that kept the gangs and violence away.

Austin Perez

If anything has changed, it's that Americans are now even more reliant on U.S. farmers and ranchers for their food security, and farmers and ranchers are even more dependent on hired labor.

Gerry Harvey

Kids go to school; we develop them at school. We develop them later on in the workplace so that we get better quality individuals, so that we get less people that are dependent or get into problems.

William Bird

It is a positive move. It is always a much better idea to have a public broadcaster that is less dependent on advertising.

Karl Rove

Here in America, we have become too dependent -- too dependent -- on the increasingly limited supply of foreign oil for our own energy needs.

George Pataki

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

Tom Crowley

I don't think it will be dependent upon sales, but winter. I wouldn't be surprised if we have it all sold (with those on the waiting list) before we even advertise. I'll know more in a month. This may not go to the Multiple Listing Service.

Phil Bredesen

Until you sit down and talk with someone who's been through this, it's hard to imagine ... the type of disruption this has placed in people's lives,

Lawrence Eagles

We have responded to a very specific physical supply disruption and we will review that response as we go further forward.

Rob Yingling

The extent to which the disruption is being felt by passengers is minimal at this point because there's been enough taxis from outside operators making pickups.

Barry Diller

I can't imagine that there'll be any disruption of any kind, in any area, on any level or in any particular. It just simply seems to me actually impossible.

John Ashcroft

from investigation and prosecution to disruption and prevention.

Abdur Razzak

Owners of factories face huge loss not only because of disruption in production and cancellation of orders, they also have to pay the workers without production. I run a flour mill, production of which has also declined.

Lucy Jones

We are going to lose all of our natural gas lines, all of our water lines, many of our power lines, most of our transportation systems. We are going to have a disruption to our infrastructure in a way that is going to take months to recover from.

Bill Adams

We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.

John Cacioppo

The factors that we find predicting loneliness are the factors that lead to a disruption of your social relationships.

Stephen Jones

It doesn't mean there's an imminent threat. But people don't like the in-your-face discussions.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any information on any imminent releases.

Jerry B. Jenkins

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

Laura Martin

We think it is imminent that you will get a new Pixar-Disney deal.

Kenichiro Ikezawa

It will probably be a long way off before we get to a 2 percent inflation rate, meaning the BOJ is not going do any imminent rate increases. That will keep the rate-differential theme and push the yen lower.

Howard Dean

Iraq was not an imminent threat to the United States. It turned out they did not have the weapons of mass destruction that people thought they did, myself included. It turned out that much of what the president told us was not so.

Barack Obama

I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.

Takahide Kiuchi

The market has already priced in an imminent move.

Dale Timmermann

The margin is less than what it was, but you do not have an imminent problem of meeting your obligations.

Alan Ruskin

The overall trend in orders is going to be south over time, ... I wouldn't use this as indicative of some impending recovery in the manufacturing sector.

Brian Riley

We need to shake that sense of impending doom, ... To do that, we need to be physically tough, mentally tough and disciplined.

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

Hemant Shah

Until we see some resolution of these issues, I think Merck and Pharmacia's stock will remain under pressure,

Max Heindel

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Capt. Boney

We're just going to have to find the right person out there with the right information. They can remain anonymous.

Tai Park

What will probably happen, is that she'll remain out on bail.

Li Hui

I don't think you can write the state sector off. They will remain a big contributor to GDP.

James Rosenquist

We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.

Grace Fey

I think it (the sell-off) was very overdone. For some of these companies, the fundamentals remain very strong.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Alan Cooper

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Al Purdy

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

David Suzuki

Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

Bryan Stevenson

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone,

Catherine Fisher

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

Bear Grylls

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

Bear Grylls

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Charles Dickens

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.