Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Russell Schweiss

Scripps serves as a prime example that it should not be assumed that when a biotech institute expands, they are planning on duplicating the research they are currently conducting at existing facilities.

Ron Nargang

Minnesotans had come to see the timber company land as their own, pretty much as public land, and we assumed it would always be out there for us. Now, it's getting sold off and developed. This has kind of caught us by surprise.

Charlton Heston

One of my first memories of my dad during that shoot was him coming home from the Coliseum set after filming the chariot race, and I assumed he was a professional chariot racer at that point, ... He'd bring me home sand from the massive arena.

Evelyn Glennie

Of course, I just assumed that the world was full of solo percussionists. It was only when I studied music full time, in London, that I realized that the career of a full-time classical percussionist did not in fact exist. It had to be created.

Ben Bernanke

One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.

Jack Schwartz

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

Robin Yount

Ned has been trying to get me back for quite a few years and the time just hasn't been right for me personally. I've been trying to get the family out of the house and get the kids grown up and move on. I always assumed I would go back one day to Milwaukee in some capacity, and I was very fortunate that the time to come back is now with these really talented young players that we have and hopefully get to watch their progress.

George Robertson

NATO nations have assumed their collective responsibilities toward Turkey, a nation at the moment under threat.

Donald Brownlee

We opened the capsule yesterday and it's just full of comet dust.

Don Brownlee

We were stunned when we got to the comet and saw incredible features - steep cliffs, overhanging cliffs, spires and many features which, oddly enough, we had never been seen on other Solar System bodies.

Ben Carson

I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

Donald Brownlee

This was our first view of the comet dust. We are the first people in the history of the planet to see comet dust.

Donald Brownlee

We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.

Bible Bible

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

Maria Mitchell

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Tom Duxbury

This spacecraft is a comet explorer. It has the tools to do a lot more.

John Hopkins

We are assembling a list of comet ingredients that will be used by other scientists for years to come,

Alex Rodriguez

I felt like if we could have delivered the knockout punch there, it could have been a long night for them,

Ricky Hatton

I have been very pleased with Dennis Hobson, ... We spoke to many people about the prospect of working with them and Dennis delivered. He put his money where his mouth is and delivered the fight.

Jerry Putnam

We are pleased that our shareholders recognize the value delivered and to be delivered through our merger with the NYSE.

Harbhajan Singh

If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Philippe Baudillon

We delivered the messages we wanted to deliver. We had two main points - the enthusiasm of France for the games and the long-standing relations between France and Africa.

Robert South

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Clive Sinclair

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

Pete Townshend

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

Edmund Phelps

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Dave Morris

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

Robert Mintz

Obviously they are taking a look at the evidence. They must be heavy into deliberations.

Samuel Coleridge

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.

Shameik Moore

I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.

Chris Evans

I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don't really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I'm working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein - clean chicken, clean meats.

Bill Clinton

I have apologized to the American people for what I did wrong, and most Americans think I paid a pretty heavy price.

Roger Clemens

We played with heavy hearts, ... I don't know if I could've done what Paul O'Neill did.

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Jim Wooldridge

I don't know where Blalock is going to end up in the voting, but I really like him. (Curtis) Stinson made his name a little quicker, but (Blalock) impacts their team more than anybody.

Trey Gowdy

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

Simon Flannery

The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.

Dan Miller

People will come anyway, the reason to get involved is to keep impacts positive.

Thom McDaniels

I won't be shocked if he impacts the outcome.

Todd Barker

I think people are seeing that we recognize the impacts of those routes.

Judd Gregg

We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone.

Vince Falcione

We know that if it impacts us, it impacts you.

David Sinclair

The time for people to make judgments is when the studies are complete. It's only then when we know what the potential impacts will be.

Italo Calvino

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Italo Calvino

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Denny Leathers

Lucas did a nice job. He started out not looking so good, but got stronger and stronger. He got most of his strikeouts late in the game.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

Wayne Wonder

My first time in the studio was in '85 but I didn't actually record in '85. I started recording the right way in the late part of '87-'88.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Richard Peterson

Numerous people are very proud of the work we've put into this.

Tatum O'Neal

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

Tom Burch

We had numerous scoring opportunities after that. We played much better in the second half.

Charles Kennedy

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

Chris Henson

We can do it quickly because we talked about numerous scenarios.

Frances Townsend

If it were that simple, it would have been easier. There were numerous reports about the levees. Most of them were inconsistent.

Gerald Myers

I was just thinking this is the person we want for this job. The reasons are too numerous to name.

Terri Smith

I recall the numerous times when students would come to him with problems they were having.

Dan Hahn

He's very brutal, very violent. This person has threatened numerous people ...

Dick Van Dyke

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Abdul Kalam

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Aaron Eckhart

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Maxim Afinogenov

If we play like we did today we'll do good.

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.