Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Perlman

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

John Key

It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

George Bernard Shaw

No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Enrico Fermi

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Kevin Myers

We've steered to the idea that the Contemporary is a convention resort.

Thayer David

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

Jon Fleischman

This was a safe speech. You don't go into a convention to talk about the issues that divide us.

Ahmed Chalabi

This process has to be entirely in the hands of Iraqis, and it has to be done by a constitutional convention that is completely free of all other institutions in Iraq, including the governing council.

Tom Schrader

We had a very nice rally, primarily due to the fact that we had oil down, and there was some relief that the convention passed without incident.

Scott Jones

We're pleased to see that SDCA members have turned out in force thanks to nice weather and the proximity of the convention this year. Having our members participate in the policy-development process is key to setting the direction we want for NCBA.

Pat Walsh

I was still working on my last entry on Wednesday night before the convention opened on Thursday. So, it was a long, hard struggle to get where I was.

Bruce Harris

Bureaus provide services to convention groups; they provide education through sponsorship dollars at meetings like this. But isn't it interesting. Bureaus are under attack, but we're not doing anything about it.

Quinton Foreman

New Orleans routinely has hosted conventions of 20, 30, 40, 60,000 people. This is a convention town unlike anything you've ever seen. So they've got to get that back. That fuels the economy.

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Elaine Sciolino

When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

James Monroe

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

Anna Lindh

major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Ken Cohen

There is a lot being said, but if you take a look at facts and fundamentals, we are doing what we can.

Saul Alinsky

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Susan B. Anthony

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

Andrew Card

would indicate a truly catastrophic occurrence on the plane.

Andy Davis

Eyewitnesses indicate that the shooting could be drug related.

Tracey Schmitt

There is nothing to indicate that those contributions reflect anything but support for the re-election campaign.

Sgt. Reynolds

There is nothing to indicate that this was a stressful situation.

Todd Anderson

This was her granddaughter and the relatives involved. The way it happened, some of what I've observed from her, some of what I've learned from other people, indicate that what she did, there's no explanation for.

Melanie Rawn

Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.

Sylvester Croom

We've come a long way, ... Our record doesn't indicate it, and it's probably not satisfying to a lot of people, but it's going to take a while.

Steve Pikiell

We're a team that needs a lot of things to go right for us to win. We're improving. Unfortunately, our record doesn't indicate that.

Pat Gillick

He's getting better. I thought this spring that he didn't indicate to me that he was that type of (one-dimensional) hitter. He indicated to me that he was a lot better.

Eddie Compass

We have our logistics in order and the patrols are going very well.

Alexander the Great

My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.

Matthew Lloyd

The scope for consolidation in the logistics sector is quite strong.

Omar N. Bradley

Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

Omar N. Bradley

Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.

Heidi Bayley

Not surprisingly, logistics become quite a big thing when you're working with ice.

Kevin Szcodronski

The logistics are fine. The system is working, and people are registering.

Heinz Guderian

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

Mick Keelty

The operation is a long way from finished. There's a lot more work to go.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Paul Davies

I don't think you can shut down all three of us. If it happens, somebody (else) has got to step up. We do have the personnel to step up and score for us.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Chauncey Billups

We wanted nothing but a win, not showboating or any of that. That's just how we play. ... We don't have the personnel to play that other way.

Pat Coyle

We're always physical, we'll always play like that. We're going to play a lot quicker than we have played. We're going to press a lot more. We have the personnel that can play the way we want to.

Markku Niskala

If we don't get money, we must withdraw personnel and slow down the reconstruction of houses.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Gerald Myers

It is pretty unique. They probably have all the Texas Tech tapes, and know what the different personnel does.

Chip Hester

They're starting from scratch on defense, so we don't have any film of their personnel playing that defense. We do have an idea what they'll do, but we know we'll have to make some mid-game adjustments.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

Carol Moseley Braun

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

Carlos Castaneda

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's teachings are not spiritual. I repeat this because the question has come to the surface over and over. The idea of spirituality doesn't fit with the iron discipline of a warrior. The most important thing for a shaman like don Juan is the idea of pragmatism.

Carlos Castaneda

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

Carlos Castaneda

The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.

Carlos Castaneda

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

Carlos Castaneda

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

Ricky Gervais

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Dave Gahan

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Bill Laswell

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

Theophilus London

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

Douglas Coupland

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

Franz Wright

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

Dylan Thomas

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Adam Hamilton

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

John Ashton

I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.