Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

David Mitchell

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Cai Guo-Qiang

For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature- because the boat has sunk- or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.

Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Bruce Wilkinson

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

Bryan Davis

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Jeff Lemire

We want to take our time with 'Descender' and let the story unfold at its own pace. But we have carefully planned each world and worked to give each its own look and feel. And each of the 9 core worlds will play a role in the series.

Steve Squyres

There are cliffs the rover could fall over and die if we aren't careful. We are gong to proceed carefully and methodically.

Lee Byung-hun

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.

Steve Struzyk

When you stress the weight room, you have to be careful about your message.

Rob Friedman

We have not always been as careful as we could have been. The current ratings system provides a solid foundation for helping parents guide their children and the enhancements that we propose today offer substantial potential for improvement.

Rob Friedman

We have not always been as careful as we could have been, ... The current ratings system provides a solid foundation for helping parents guide their children and the enhancements that we propose today offer substantial potential for improvement.

Kevin Kinel

We've still got to be careful to get things done at sectional. Once he's at the state meet, he'll be at home. That says a lot for a freshman, but that's sort of the way he is. He loves to race and loves a challenge.

Nic Pizzolatto

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Michael Tanner

Whether it will help remains to be seen. We have to be careful not to generalize before we have enough information.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Bob Williams

We're handling them in the order in which they were received.

Kevin Quinn

She's handling the pressure of the big meets really well this season.

Rick Barnes

Right now, if there's any one thing I can change, it's handling the basketball. Sixteen turnovers at this time of year just kills you.

Jay Dillon

People were very upset but were handling it well.

Randolph Bourne

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

William Poole

From what I know of that situation, markets are handling it very well,

J. Taylor

I'd like to thank the management for handling this issue in such a sensitive way,

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Charles Dickens

I only ask for information.

Charles Schumer

We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.

China Mieville

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

Mayor Barse

We are always seeking new and better information.

Richard Davidson

We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction.

Alexander Kashlinsky

Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.

Bill Summers

Where's our majority, they're the one's who ought to be here listening to this. This is information we really and truly ought to be concentrating on.

T. S. Eliot

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Mark Cuban

When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not.

Richard P. Feynman

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Shen Si

So far, we have just been notified by our shareholders about such an internal deal, which is still pending on our board's permission.

Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Laila Robins

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Mike Turner

He will not be rehired ... regardless, ... an internal personnel matter.

Fred Mumford

There are a lot of internal meetings going on here. We obviously don't have the power to make the quarry resume pumping.

Chuck Schumer

The president ought to do his own internal investigation of the vice president's office, to see what happened, set some standards and if need be take the vice president to the woodshed,

Dean Wareham

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

Mark Erickson

Women have an internal signal of pending motherhood - they are pregnant. Men do not.

Michael Shermer

Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry.

John Vane

Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.

Howard Johnson

The prime thing is involving the public in the solution. In my experience, haven't seen as much of that public involvement as there should be.

George Wald

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?

Will Hobbs

Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.

Jennifer Laster

Online shopping, anything involving pictures, downloading music can use up too much of a taxed system.

Estelle

My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

Donna Cavanaugh

I have never encountered a situation like this involving a breeder or someone who shows dogs.

Steve Martin

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Ari Adler

We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

D. James

We won. That's all that matters to me.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Philip Dick

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Gilbert Arenas

I'm an All-Star in my mind, and I'm an All-Star to this city, my peers and this organization. So that's all that matters to me.

Alonzo Jackson

I don't even think like that, ... Why wouldn't you want me? I went out there and did what I had to do today. That's all that really matters to me right now.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Al Michaels

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

Chloe Sevigny

The media loves negative spin.

Dave Barry

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Dave Barry

Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.

David Talbot

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

David Sanborn

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

David Puttnam

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

David Puttnam

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

David Nail

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

Raymond Kelly

We're doing a meticulous search at all possible locations,

Bob Miller

Right now, the lot is meticulous ... garden-like, the way it is maintained,

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Tom Skerritt

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

James E. Rogers

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

John McCarthy

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

Aisha Tyler

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

Madeline Albright

We were always willing, if they cooperated, to go to a comprehensive review

Gordon England

We had a very comprehensive and in-depth review of this transaction.

Dr. Wyman

Somebody has to review everything to make sure it was done right.

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Naomi Compton

Mt. Carmel will do an architectural review to select one of these buildings.

Andrea Arnold

I don't read reviews.

Pat Davis

We are going to review the report, and we are going to take into consideration this analysis.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Blake Lively

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Paulo Coelho

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

Nhat Hanh

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Les Brown

Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You