Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. T. Bell

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Damian Fraser

This number combined with the other high numbers is going to force the government to keep interest rates high and make sure the budget is austere for the next year. High rates are bad news for equity holders.

Joost Hiltermann

The situation in Iraq looks austere and the implementation of a new all inclusive government is very important for better security.

Michele Quinn

This is definitely an austere show. The weight and scale come across, which are the crux of his work.

Peter Post

We can have discussion without letting it degenerate into personal attacks,

Henry David Thoreau

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

Francis Atterbury

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Joseph Druce

It wasn't about planning. I had to stop him and that was that. He was a sick, degenerate pedophile that victimized hundreds of kids.

Hunter S. Thompson

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Horace Walpole

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Craig Venter

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

Neil Young

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Peter Drucker

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Alber Elbaz

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

Igor Ivanov

Some participants are trying to put formulas unacceptable to Russia, including on Chechnya, into the declaration,

Tyra Banks

Dab - don't rub - cream formulas onto your skin. Rubbing washes out the color, so do that only if you've put on too much.

Jim Rohn

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

Mitch Albom

There is no formula to relationships.

Tamara Ecclestone

Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

Thomas Massie

My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, you can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar panels. These are rocks that make electricity, so they are incapable of receiving your hate.

Mike Johnston

Phil is incapable of error. If he says six more weeks of winter, you can take it to the bank.

Susan Hansen

Just because they're related doesn't mean they're incapable of doing their job.

Rig Veda

Those who are incapable of performing their duties, end up as failures.

David Hume

The slaving poor are incapable of any principles

Mike Sweeney

It's not like we're incapable of winning. We're just in a rut right now. It's a big rut, though.

Anna Seward

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

Joyce Banda

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Andrew Jackson

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Bob Wheeler

There is indeed such a bottleneck, and if their software does what they claim, it should get wide support.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

John Milton

Rhetoric . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate.

Michael Defensor

But as to how many they are, we don?t really know and they are indeed a security concern.

Russell Smith

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

Shakeel Syed

His story is indeed a story that needs to come out, and needs to be shared with the world.

Dennis Lehane

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Alan Shearer

Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

David Alan Basche

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

Nick Reid

To go out on top with a big win like this, it just hasn't sunk in yet. We've come a long way. It's pretty neat to be part of the foundation.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

Erica McKenzie

We won with superstars back to back. Now here we are with a totally different team trying to three-peat... . That's what's neat with this team.

Gregory Wasson

I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and closets.

Dave Allison

He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period.

Bob Hill

Here's what I really remember about Mike. On Thanksgiving he had us all over in Milan. We all had Thanksgiving at his apartment. It was just a neat day.

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Aristotle

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Edward Everett

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Aberjhani

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

Douglas Kennedy

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Andrew Bacevich

For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

Ameen Rihani

To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Jim Coleman

We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joel Hollander

We're going to take a hit, no question about it.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Craig Fugate

We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them.

Arthur C. Clarke

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Arianna Huffington

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.