Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariel Sharon

We have no interest to hurt innocent civilians and are always sorry about civilians that are hurt but this action, according to me, is one of our biggest successes, and of course obliges us to be on full state of alertness,

Tatyana Paramonova

There are a lot of banks that show a good capital base according to RAS but have a capital base lower than their declared charter capital according to IAS.

Chris Broad

There is a line and that line has been pushed, perhaps in this game, but according to the umpires they (Australia) haven't crossed it.

Tang Jiaxuan

We shall achieve the objective of building a country and also develop the country according to law,

Stewart Udall

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.

Eric Maskin

I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.

Charles de Secondat

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

Kage Baker

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

Dean Ryerson

We have seen an increase in pregnant students coming into the university clinic. Our clinic also hands out free condoms, and we have seen an increase of students asking for them.

Dan Schmidt

We have seen an explosion in our numbers. The industry came to us and asked us to develop a program. The feedback we get is that the students are learning and they know more of the why -- why they are doing their jobs and how it fits into the overall corporate mission. From the industry view, they save money hiring someone with a two year degree as opposed to off the street.

Ruud Lubbers

We have said we are available, if Paris and London ask us, to give a hand with the screening of the people at Sangatte. We could do it together,

Jimmy Neal

We have to go through the city manager, so we will send him a letter (today) asking for a meeting.

Joe Pendry

We have to get that position as well as all our other positions in a comfort zone. We have to put him in a position to do his job and not ask him to go win the game for us every time.

Roe Hye

We have asked three independent labs to conduct DNA tests on the samples, and all three came out with the same conclusion. None of the stem cells were patient-specific.

Javad Zarif

We have asked the United States to provide us with that evidence, and we have not seen any forthcoming,

Baba Kingibe

We have asked the SLA to give us the coordinate of the position where these attacks have taken place...As soon as they do that, we shall send our team to investigate and establish whether indeed such attacks took place or not.

Shivraj Patil

We have asked the police to furnish details on the loopholes.

Joe Marsh

We have no illusions of grandeur here. It's the situation we want to be in. We want to have to go out there and have to earn every single shift. We'll have to do that in this building (the Kohl Center) for sure.

Samuel Palmisano

We have more work to do, but we are off to a good start this year, building on the momentum of 2005.

John M. Smith

We have some building to do. Building doesn't mean that we're looking at some poor seasons in the future. Building just means we need to build some individuals that don't have a lot of credentials at this point.

Anthony DeFazio

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Capt. McDonough

Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very quickly. So they need to know where the exits are and they need to know how to get to them.

Marv Levy

When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing.

Al Williams

When you say science, people have a certain image of facilities. Science is not an old building from the 1950s not these days.

Alan Ackerman

We've seen natural gas and energy prices back down. There certainly is no indication that the inventories for oil or natural gas are building in any meaningful way. If OPEC should cut production, we're going to see a rise in oil prices.

Alan Ackerman

We've seen natural gas and energy prices back down, ... There certainly is no indication that the inventories for oil or natural gas are building in any meaningful way. If OPEC should cut production, we're going to see a rise in oil prices.

Peter Stoessel

We were already looking at Southern California when he approached us.

Scott Clark

The fact that natural gas prices are competitive in California has to do with the lasting effects of the California energy crisis, which has continued to keep electrical prices high.

Bobby Julich

The professionalism (of the race) is what keeps the European teams coming back and what makes the American riders so focused. The Coors Classic and Tour Du Pont were huge things that got George and I into cycling and now it's up to us to inspire the next generation (of cyclist). I think the Tour of California can help up with that.

Tom Bissell

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Thomas Starr King

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Dave Foley

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

David Pogue

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

Gary Sinise

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

Camille Guaty

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

Elena Vesnina

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

Barbara Kingsolver

Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Silvan Shalom

We are talking about an earthquake that has sent us back 50 years and will lead the entire region into chaos.

Jan Schakowsky

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Charles Francis Richter

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

Charles Francis Richter

The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Katrina Kelner

We were already worried about the 2004 paper and this doesn't make us any less worried.

John Landgraf

There is a lot less overt bigotry in America.

Celso Senise

There is a lot less money for high-risk investments and no liquidity. The polls are not enough.

J. C. Watts

The popular things become more popular and the less-popular things get less popular.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Dan Savage

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Robert Kiyosaki

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

Murray Gell-Mann

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Frank Herbert

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

George Soros

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report, and that is not good.

Charles Edison

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Charles de Gaulle

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Jan Balkenende

There is all the more reason to say 'Yes' so that some progress can be recorded with the constitutional treaty,

Richard G. Scott

You are making better progress than you realize.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Bruno Rossi

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Milan Hejduk

We used to play together two or three years ago, and it worked really well, ... There's no reason why it shouldn't work again.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Bill Guerin

(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.

William Massey

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.