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blind ifs seeking
If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it. Alan Watts
blind-spots people world
Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do. David Shapiro
blinders braces girls mad pay
All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options. Lucas Till
blind
The one thing you never say to a blind person is, 'Did you see that?' Walter Dean
blinders charged good maybe occurred whatever
When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.
blind blindfolds ifs
If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time. Demetri Martin
blind-spots missing brain
Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene... Daniel Gilbert
blind madmen plague
Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind. William Shakespeare
blinds nocturnal writers
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. John Banville
causes doe getting-things-done
Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. David Allen
causes funny-women arguing
I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause. Dave Barry
causes journalism profession
Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession. David Talbot
cause disease drama emotions experience face fear great hallmark people shows theater violent
Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy. Michael Moriarty
cause poverty rural
The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.
cause close fuel increase percent seeing spend sure
We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.
causes decline earnings estimates future lowering revenue slight
We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95. Kevin McCarthy
cause opens oppose others seek similar strongly
We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief. Colin Powell
caused companies great hear investors issue negative players signal tech worries
We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.
change leadership gnarly
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. Charles de Gaulle
change begets
Change begets change. Charles Dickens
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. Charles Caleb Colton
change begets
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
change men rocks
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
change country littles
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. Charles Sturt
change age wells
It is not well to make great changes in old age. Charles Spurgeon
change becoming becoming-new
Everything is perpetually becoming new.
change way world
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
compares hospital memorial perception
We want to see how the perception of Onslow Memorial Hospital compares with the perception of these other hospitals.
compares million percent revenue sales total
For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compares to Dell revenue of $570 million in 2004, which was about 11 percent of our total revenue.
compares million revenue sales total
For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15% of our revenue. This compares to Dell revenue of $570 million in 2004, which was about 11% of our total revenue.
compares efficiency learn starting trying
I'm starting to learn more and more about it, the efficiency of corn, how it compares to different fuels. I'm trying to learn everything about it that I can.
compares helps stock
Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.
compares feeling
I didn't much like school. I've been on motorcycles, but nothing compares to the feeling of being on a bull.
compares cup unless win
Obviously, there's nothing that compares to the '99 Cup run. Nothing will ever compare to that unless you win it all. Jay McKee
compares great
Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show. Bruce Forsyth
compares mind minimal musical schubert simply work
To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces. Leonard Slatkin
culture illusion illusion-of-time
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time
culture cult
All culture must have arisen from cult. Alan Moore
culture victimhood not-interested
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. Alan Ball
culture worship christ
Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.
culture indigenous land model respect serving venezuela
Venezuela is serving as a model of respect for indigenous peoples and their right to culture, land and sovereignty.
culture initiative meetings
OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide. Dave Douglas
culture glimpse heritage hosts india next rich
The performances will give a glimpse of the rich culture and heritage of India as the next hosts of the Games.
culture delay delivering fund ministry promise
We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.
culture host issues
There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.
fate destiny hands
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings... Charles W. Chesnutt
fate leader always-alone
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
fate healthy feelings
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate. Akio Morita
fate bonus share
the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
fate army hands
When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe. Chris Avellone
fate cedars coincidence
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason. David Guterson
fate thinking other-worlds
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. Carl Sagan
fate air climate-action
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.
fate men decision
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. C. Wright Mills
forces plans present rule time
We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way, Donald Rumsfeld
forces listened music radio
When I was a kid,if you were lucky, you listened to that music on Radio Luxembourg or the American Forces Network. Georgie Fame
forces prey
I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers. Kathleen Sebelius
forces four game position
When you put yourself in the position to have to come back like that it forces your hand. You have to make every play and you can't make a mistake. But the story of this game was told in the first four minutes.
forces respond security strength terrible
Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.
forces helped medical provide scene support urgent
What I can say is that U.S. forces helped to provide urgent medical support at the scene of the incident, something for which I know our forces are grateful,
forces huge move present pressure puts tough
She puts huge pressure on me. She is so present on the court. She really forces you back. It's tough to get the rallies going and move her around. Patty Schnyder
forces powerful trial
There are forces surrounding this trial ? dark, powerful forces, Tom Wilkinson
forces point positive speed view
From our point of view, anything that forces a shutdown will speed up a settlement, which we view as a positive event. Richard Williams
havoc opponents people
We wreak havoc once we get on base. If we get people on base, we are going to try to make our opponents make plays.
humanity certain provision
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. Charles Wagner
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
humanity architect grey
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'. Chip Kidd
human ordinary rest
We know 'Willie Time' is under two minutes. He's just an ordinary human being for the rest of the game. Jerry Johnson
human learn sure
We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land. Scott Horowitz
human
Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.
humanity end-of-the-world world
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
humanity originality specks
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
lies lies-and-lying marathon run runs truth win
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court. Michael Jackson
lies lies-and-lying silent
When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave. William Cowper
lies poor wrote
Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll. David Garrick
lies lies-and-lying manner matters secret
It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages. William Williams
lies road
...Whatever the road that lies ahead, that road will take me home. George H. W. Bush
lies man
He can't be believed. He's a man who lies systematically.
lies matter means painful people themselves time work
People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work. Phil Klay
lies lies-and-lying pleasure seeking
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. Leo Tolstoy
lies says
My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for. Tom Bosley
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.
manipulative
I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manhattan
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! Ed Koch
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
mankind
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd. Benjamin Franklin
natural social talking walking
Walking and talking is just a natural thing; it's social interaction.
natural states knows
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know. Byron Katie
natural gas natural-gas
Natural gas is the future. It is here. Bill Richardson
natural-talent rejection motivational-sales
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections. Daniel H. Pink
natural attributes propensity
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. Bertrand Russell
natural reserves strategic
We have no strategic reserves for natural gas,
natural reach
When he first started, it was all just natural talent. Now we have him sprinting, he's strengthening his legs, and I think he is going to reach 6-8 soon.
natural tony
Tony is a natural leader, not only on the field, but off it. He'll have everyone's support.
natural deals
It takes a great deal of experience to become natural. Willa Cather
nature rain wicked-world
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. Charlie Chaplin
nature fancy facts
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven. Charles Dudley Warner
nature faults reform
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
nature men garden
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
nature simple perfect
"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was." Charles de Lint
nature moon clouds
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.
nature giving natural
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
nature humility pride
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
nature men self
If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.
powerful laughter humor
In the end, everything is a gag.
powerful mind tools
The mind is a powerful tool. Charles Tillman
power bills waste
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill. Charles Tupper
power silence weapons
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
powerful weak said
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
stands
She just stands there -- like some employees.
stands style work
For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.
stands
He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.
stands
I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture. Robert Mueller
stands
Right now that's where it stands to be.
stands
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
stands
There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon. Faith Hunter
stands
The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union. Lee Whitnum
stands tide time wait woman
Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty. Robert Frost
war cutting two
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
war differences bombs
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
war evil spheres
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. Charles Sumner
war age economics
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
war greatness men
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.
war fall believe
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
war hate men
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
war greatness genius
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!
war battle france
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
within
I would say it's more within my expectations.
within
We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate. Michael Mann
within
We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,
within
Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.
within work
We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.
within work
We will have to work within the budget.
within
We should be able to energize it within one or two days.
within
Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.
within
It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.