Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bhagavad Gita

Verily there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. One who becomes purified by Karma-yoga discovers this knowledge within (naturally) in course of time. (See also 4.31, and 5.06).

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

E. O. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

Sean McAlinden

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

Debbie Ford

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see what he was thinking at the time. He's the one who received the employment. Was it something that he sought? Was it something that the companies offered to him?

Bill Curry

We know as much about running a retail store as brick-and-mortar companies know about running a Web site.

Dan Brush

Vermont companies should have a fair playing field.

Bill Gates

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

Louis Navellier

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

Michael Specter

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

John Nolan

The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream.

Ron Carey

The Post Office and the other companies can't manage the volume, ... They shouldn't be dictating; they should be negotiating.

Jim Keyes

We are pleased to join the global companies listed on the world's most prestigious stock exchange, ... Our NYSE listing marks an important milestone for 7-Eleven and will raise our visibility with the financial community.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Stanley

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Phil Durocher

The potential for carp fishing is considerable. We need to be prepared in Texas if the sport takes off.

Eddie Irvine

Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

David Walker

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

Bobby Flay

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

Bobby Jindal

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

Demetri Martin

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

Michael Matthews

We want fish that are into it. Older, larger fish aren't as active.

Charlie Sheen

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

Kevin McLaughlin

With the large number of boating and fishing enthusiasts in this area, we thought it was time for Philadelphia to host a spectacular show like the one we're planning.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Marilyn Praisner

We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Susan Collins

We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring,

Sam Yagan

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Dr. Prescott

We want to see him wake up. There is a medical reason (for the coma). We don't know what it is.

Eric Kandel

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

Nathan Barankin

Whenever the medical profession steps into these social policy issues, things get really complicated in a hurry. Quite frankly, that's the reason San Quentin has never required medical professions to be involved.

Barbara Matthews

With the medical evidence, we could prove that was not the case.

Leroy Hood

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

Kevin McCarthy

We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do.

Charles Barkley

There's no medical term for what I've got.

Marty Bahamonde

Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out.

Monica Crowley

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

Therese Fowler

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

Dorothy Day

What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.

Claude Monet

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

Socrates

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

Michelle Malkin

Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

Mason Cooley

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

Matsuo Basho

Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

Matsuo Basho

Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.

Pat Paulsen

We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Billy Higgins

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Dee Hock

Only fools worship their tools

Benjamin Franklin

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

Bill Gates

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Ed Koch

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

Ariel Winter

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

Cass McCombs

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

Cat Deeley

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

Carre Otis

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.

Burt Young

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

Carnie Wilson

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.