Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Djuna Barnes

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Diane Wakoski

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Dianna Agron

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Carl Sagan

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

Byron Katie

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Cesare Pavese

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Jane Austen

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

Janet Leigh

[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

Hani Durzy

The Reagan memorabilia runs the gamut of his life, everything from an original bumper sticker from the 1980 election to magazine covers and T-shirts. It just shows that Reagan had many admirers.

Caroline DeWaal

Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.

Mark Ruffalo

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.

Rick Glancey

When you look at the Volkswagen, the bumper of the pick-up truck forced itself all the way back to the top of the roof of the car. That indicates that he was coming so fast that he was literally underneath that Ford F-150.

Paul Mooney

To me, the peace sign is about supporting our troops. I feel like I have to have bumper stickers now. It (angers) some people ... I don't want to offend people ... (but) I can't just sit there and take it.

Richard Hunter

We have had some bumper figures from Exxon and that augurs well for Shell later in the week.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Tony Stewart

Guys are doing it in the middle of the corner, coming off it and coming on. It's softening the front bumper because it's the guys that are doing the hitting. Trust me, I did my share of it, too.

John Banks

What is benefitted properties of the lake? Is it just those that are adjacent to the lake or, as in Rice Lake, is it the Lake District, the entire city and properties on the west side of Rice Lake? ... Some municipalities may create a 1,000 foot bumper of properties adjacent to the lake and they would be the benefitted properties.

Carol Kane

My face is my career.

Carol Kane

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

Carol Vorderman

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Carlos Ghosn

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

Carlos Ghosn

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Carlos Ghosn

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

Carlos Ghosn

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

C. S. Lewis

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Daniel Petrie

What the top tier earns is the engine that pulls everyone else along.

Jesse Chacon

When it was flying over Venezuelan airspace, they had problems with one engine and then with another engine, and at that moment it went down,

David Pogue

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

Carlos Slim

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

Jamie Zawinski

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Chris Bangle

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

Luke Nosek

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

James Rhodes

We have a ride-along program where they can ride with engines and ambulances.

Bill Yearwood

We have information that the pilot reported engine power loss. He did not report any icing.

Eric Maskin

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

Bill Womack

We're in a good spot right now. Now we just got to gear up for (Central) and keep it going.

Anthony Rizzo

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

Gregory Mankiw

would throw sand into the gears of human progress.

Bill Gothard

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

Kerri Strug

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

Jeff Hamilton

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

Charlie Sheen

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

Mike Machowsky

She always had talent, but mentally ... she would get geared up and wound up.

Ezra Klein

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

Gordon Hartwell

We'd gotten the momentum back, but the thing is, in order to be even with them, we had to do some extraordinary things. How many of those do you have in you in a particular game?

Dave Barry

We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

Kristen Schaal

I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.

Mike Baldwin

With this release we've gotten back to the fundamentals.

Jeff Carnazzo

We've got most of our stuff in now. We've had a little more time to jell. We'll script our first 20 plays. Of course, you have to get a feel for the game, which is why we've rarely gotten through our 20 plays without making changes.

Dom Capers

We've got a lot of young guys that have gotten on the job training.

Donald Pleasence

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

Nelson Peltz

You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.

Tom Jones

So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

Jose Serrano

The poor were just left to fend for themselves.

Brian Cox

There is so much left of it to explore.

Logan Mankins

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Jeremy Luke

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Janis Joplin

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Henry James

Most of the time they can get the loan, but it's not 100 percent. The owner usually has to come up with 35 to 40 percent of the money.

Ed Miliband

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Granth Sahib

True wealth does not drown, and its owner is never punished.

Arthur Blank

There are a lot of reasons owners vote the way they vote. They have their reasons, usually very legitimate.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Becky Zaheri

We have got to take ownership in our city. We can't wait for somebody else to do it.

Greg Varela

(Kim) pinned him in 20 seconds three weeks ago. For a freshman, he wants to win. He understands how important it is to us.

Todd Matthews

His kickoffs pinned them back in their own end and that was key.

C. S. Lewis

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Thomas Massie

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Joseph Pusateri

We were always taking a back seat to him.

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Megan Challender

My seat will be empty. I'm non-violently protesting.

Bill Scranton

We need to give the taxpayers a seat at the table in this state.

Jon Favreau

We're trying to find a seat on the bus.

Bob Hill

To me, Seattle has always been a cornerstone of the NBA. It would be shame if the team had to leave.

Lyle Lovett

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?