Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nell Minow

Yes, it's meaningful money, ... But it's still a fraction of what was lost.

Bhagavad Gita

Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, and power; know that to be a manifestation of a fraction of My splendor.

William Shockley

An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.

The Talmud

Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence

John Tate

This number is probably just a fraction of what is needed in that marketplace.

Thomas Carlyle

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.

Paul Wolfowitz

could be hidden in a room a fraction the size of this one.

Clint Hurdle

Every year you show up here, you at least have a fraction of hope. This year there's a lot more substance to go with that hope. They know (the division) is open. It's time to make a statement on the field.

Karen Ross

That's just a fraction of the rate we saw in the late 1990s.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Huseyin Sahin

She died. I will be making a statement shortly.

Miley Cyrus

I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Chow Yun-Fat

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Alfred North Whitehead

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Nell Minow

They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.

George Berkeley

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles de Gaulle

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Charles de Lint

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.