Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Praveen Khandelwal

Our movement shows what people, united for a common cause, can do even without the support of political parties.

George Simpson

Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.

William Teague

Our results suggest that waves in excess of 90 feet are not rogue waves but actually are fairly common during hurricanes.

Michelle Thomas

Our goal isn't to dumb down the rules. It's to use some common sense in what we regulate.

Jaipal Reddy

Our friendship was for a common cause- secularism.

Vladimir Putin

Our two countries share a common position on the international strategic balance, ... In the world today, in the international situation, this position is very important.

Arthur Doyle

Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.

Ron Logan

Right now the competition is such that zero fee in the first year is the most common thing you'll see.

Thomas Kristensen

I think Steve has got some good points on why comparing vulnerability numbers is difficult.

Tom Ryan

It gets people away from just comparing two products.

Tom Johnson

I wouldn't read a lot into one year's statistics. That's particularly true at the moment, when you've had a number of years of pretty dramatic decline in violent crime. If you're comparing this year's numbers to the 1990s, the story would be a decrease in crime.

Rebecca Makkai

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

Chris Duffy

I was comparing myself to what I was doing last year. I'm trying to get myself right.

Greg Williams

For two years, UT fans called our show complaining that Mack can't win the big game. Now they're comparing him to Darrell Royal.

W. S. Gilbert

We can learn about the pattern of evolution by looking at the structure of genes and comparing the structure of proteins.

Bob Berney

Miramax started out as a film distributor and they were really smart in their acquisitions in the early years. I would hope that's what they're comparing us to.

Brittany Snow

With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else.

Barclays Capital

Recent hurricane damage in the U.S. has impacted natural gas more than any other energy market.

Bill Richardson

recent developments ... including violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants.

Janet Callison

Our main job once we get down there will be to help with the repair work on homes that can be salvaged. Many homes were extensively damaged by flooding and by wind. We will be working on homes that are still standing.

Bill Burns

Station 4 had a one-minute response, ... That house would not have withstood five minutes of free burning. We would have lost the roof and the motor home, and had damage to neighboring houses.

Peter Beattie

Some have been flattened, roofs have been taken off. The property damage has been immense.

Heather Jensen

Ours was recovered, but there's so much damage to it.

John Richter

Our goal is to shut down as much of this illegal operation as quickly as possible to stem the serious financial damage to the victims of this high-tech piracy -- the people who labor to produce these copyrighted materials,

Michael Englund

Overall, the damage from the hurricane on the economy is limited, and by November and December we will start seeing the positive effect on production from rebuilding.

George Eichert

Our wind speedometer broke. We had 100 mile-per-hour winds for four-plus hours with gusts up to 150 mph. I would characterize the damage as heavy, but not catastrophic.

Jim Reynolds

Part of the work involved with every hurricane is to lock the place down and make it as secure as possible, and that takes time to occur.

Chris Sisko

People need to be securing property and putting up their hurricane shutters to safeguard their homes.

Lynette Miller

Our problem with coastal storms does not end with the hurricane season.

Jack Beven

Rita should maintain major hurricane status until landfall,

Michael Chertoff

last summer FEMA, who reports to you, and the LSU Hurricane Center, and local and state officials did a simulated Hurricane Pam in which the levees broke. ... Thousands drowned.

Michael Lomax

I went through seven hurricane seasons. We went through the drills.

Janet Callison

There are still vast neighborhoods of rubble and toppled trees everywhere. Even when you're standing there and looking, it's unfathomable how much has to be done, even seven months after the hurricane hit.

Fumihiko Kawano

Just talk of the hurricane weakening was enough to push up the dollar.

Julie Gerberding

I think it is really important to remember that when this hurricane was coming, we actually didn't know where it was going to go,

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Judy Parfitt

That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then - the person is still with you. With dementia, there's no conversation; there's no togetherness, no sharing.

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Javier Solana

We are going tomorrow to get very serious on Sudan.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,