Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Krabbe

We're most disturbed by the company's issuing notices of furlough to people they just got done recalling. We think that it shows a callous disregard for these individuals and their lives.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

Stephen Cecchetti

I think this is very, very tough for the Fed. There's also the compassion issue. You run the risk of looking very callous by raising rates.

Ken Lloyd

The leaders of the community need to step up to the plate. When did we become so callous and nasty?

Asa Hutchinson

This grim discovery is a horrific reminder of the callous disregard smugglers have for their human cargo.

Chuck Rosenberg

This is a very callous and disturbing crime, ... He purposefully put at risk many, many people.

Harry Reid

The Republican Party has recently taken great pains to reach out to the African-American community, and I hope that they will be swift in condemning Mr. Bennett's comments as nothing short of callous and ignorant,

Jack Straw

This is yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life,

Carlos Santana

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

Ed Helms

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

Bill Mauldin

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

Bill Maher

False hope really makes you cynical.

Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Don McLean

The process got abused, ... So what do you do about it? Do you become cynical and turn your back on it, or do you do something about it?

Michael Gerber

Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.

Alan Rusbridger

So I think it is wise to be extremely cynical about what you are being told, even from your own government.

Amanda Hearst

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Paul Walton

We're going to prove the defendant displayed a wanton and willful disregard for life,

Cynthia Phipps

What has been returned has been recorded. If they turned it in, they can disregard the letter.

Gary Speed

A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

Charles Kennedy

Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.

Stephen Urban

Seven people (council members) and the mayor (Tom Leighton) seem to disregard the will of the people, ... When is (council's) vote going to take place ... 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010? Is it ever going to take place?

Jerry Seinfeld

We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Lloyd Carr

I don't think you ever disregard the record. The record is the results of the games. It's an important standard, and we're all disappointed about it. But I'm not disappointed in our players. They fought to the last minute of the last game.

Max Winkler

I feel like there's a witch hunt by some film sites and people that immediately disregard something if it shows any sort of influence.

Charles Sturt

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

Alan Watts

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Byron Katie

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Liza Minnelli

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Dick Costolo

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Cheryl James

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

John Gagliano

We're so proud of him. He's been a great leader and a great example for the other kids to follow. It's great for the program.

Atom Egoyan

When we first shot it, something very, very weird happened, and it's a good example of how things work intuitively or are improvised.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

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'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.