Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Jeb Bush

Where they didn't work, we had supply but it wasn't adequate. It was not adequate for the demand.

Edward Taylor

We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done.

Lisa Kelley

We want funding levels to be adequate to put conservation programs on the ground.

George Andrews

This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment.

Nancy Fox

We're going to enjoy a good semester or two of adequate parking at that time. We have ambitious plans to grow the university. So for the next five years or so, we're going to experience growth pains,

Bill DeWalt

What this gift does is give us the kind of confidence to know that we have sufficient resources to attract an exhibit like this and adequately market it.

Maret Traber

What this clearly shows is that to perform their vital roles, vitamins C and E work together. They have a synergistic effect that will not be gained just by intake of one or the other, and adequate levels of these nutrients is especially important for people who smoke.

Gary Ackerman

What has the federal government been doing all these years to prepare for a disaster striking a major American city, ... With all the bureaucratic federal agencies, super czars and homeland preparedness, there seems to be no national or regional master plan to evacuate people, bring in relief and adequately deal with a large scale emergency of this nature. Is there a plan in place for how to deal with the profiteers when the resettling and rebuilding begins? Is there a plan to freeze oil prices?

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Louis Stokes

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Michel Patini

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Maajid Nawaz

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

John LaFontaine

The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.

Orlando Early

The other team is always going to make a run. The key to being a heavyweight champion is to fight back and stand up against the punches.

Chris Connolly

The other side of the coin is that we had a terrific win against Adelaide, and every player deserve to continue on. So it is pretty tight.

Benj Steinman

The positive thing to note is that they actually had improving results as the year went on. But they were going against a very easy comparison -- they were down 3% in last year's fourth quarter.

Steve Malchow

We want them to sit down and talk to coach McDermott before we get to the point of anyone asking for a release. If push comes to shove - we're not ogres here.

Mac Gifford

We want to show that we can play with anyone in the east and in the country. We're taking it one step at a time so that we can build the program.

Deborah Galloway

We want to see it done as badly as anyone else.

Pat Barry

We want to see if he had contact with anyone else.

Lucas Till

If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.

Lorraine Toussaint

I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.

Michael Steele

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Sean Duffy

The other team is trying to set up a straw man with Tim, but I doubt anyone here is going to be running around talking about Dr. Dobson, and his name ID is higher. I'm hoping we can talk about the issues and not have this dueling.

Adam Ereli

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Bill Nye

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Justin Glover

We have to focus on paying the claims and looking at the sources we have to do that.

Membathisi Mdladlana

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

Bill Maher

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Gareth Peirce

We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.

Patrick Fearon

We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.

Lanny Breuer

The plaintiff's claims are without merit, as shown by the fact that the entrepreneur-defendants are supported by the expert reports of three former FCC Commissioners, including a former FCC chairman.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

Edith Wharton

Life is made up of compromises.

Audrey Tautou

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

Bruce Becker

We want to make sure we don't have to compromise our ideals,

Brian Tracy

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

Brian Tracy

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

Elliott Abrams

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

Jia Qinglin

We can never tolerate 'Taiwan independence' and will never compromise in opposing secessionist activities.

Reinhard Buetikofer

We won't compromise on the content of our policies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Rick Barnes

We didn't want him to settle for that.

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Tom Tierney

Give him time to settle in, and he'll do the right thing for the Diocese of Cleveland.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

David Ginola

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

Yvonne Williams

When I was a child, I'd go down to see the water after a storm, just to see it settling down, for reassurance,

Kara Cook

We're just now settling down. It's a lot of fun.

Elizabeth I

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for.

Confucius

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Cindy Gallop

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

John Calipari

We were just settling for two many 3s.

Denis Leary

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Aaron Tveit

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Geisha Williams

We're in the tough stage of the restoration.

Bob Dylan

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get stage fright.

Arthur Ashe

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me