Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Cook

We want to stop the breaches in the cease-fire and we want to avoid the potential of future atrocities,

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

James Baker

The only reason why I negotiated with these guys was simply because they didn't try to avoid the issue, they got hold of us right way, ... They clearly didn't understand when they went out of bounds the risk that was involved to other people. I think in looking backward, they understand they put other people at risk with their behavior and this was a way to settle this thing.

Susan Reeves

The potential changes to the (net-profits) bill must be considered carefully to avoid upsetting the balance contained within the bill.

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

John Whiting

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Roy Jackson

We've always been able to avoid publicity. We don't even have our name on the front of our building.

John Lazarchic

We've always avoided it because of the huge human workload.

Judy Cameron

We've all been told at one point in our lives that we should avoid late-night snacks as they will lead to weight gain. In reality, however, this belief is not based in fact. We conducted a review of previous data on the topic and found no real evidence that this was true.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Galit Chait

We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

China Mieville

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

David Schwimmer

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

David Morrissey

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Danny Martin

The other side of resurrection is about changing the world. It's not just about yourselves.

Greg Abbott

We are pleased to have a chef of such stature share our vision. Dale's Kitchen gives our technology wonderful exposure throughout the foodservice and packaging industries. The Fresh Flow(TM) Tap is changing rules.

Don Worstell

We struggled formulating a game plan and I thought about changing to something different. But we haven't played that way all year. We needed to do what we do and if we have to we will make adjustments.

Al Edwards

When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.

Lisa Graff

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.

Bernadette Perez

What he's doing is completely changing my life.

Jim Dyke

What has become clear is this really isn't about protecting kids. This is about changing television. A politically active, savvy group of Americans has figured out a way to make TV in their own image.

Shaun Donovan

What's really different here is that we are changing the rules. We're saying the developer who wins is the one with the most affordability.

David Cummings

Unless the service stations decide to cut their margins in order to continue selling fuel, over $1.40 will shock a lot of people into changing the way they use their car.

Michael Shannon

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Susan Clark

The point is professional enrichment, education, professional development. We are constantly learning.

Joey Santiago

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Lexi Thompson

I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

Mark Kennedy

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

M.I.A.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

David Blair

Whether my house was open or not, the noise was just as bad. ... It was like someone constantly pounding on the house.

Reid Scott

Whether it's soundtracking a moment in my life or just motivating me to hit the gym, I constantly have music playing. Even if it's just in my head.

Chris Bennett

People will come to your site because you have good compelling content. You need to hit it from all angles: blog posts, articles, graphs, data, infographics, interactive content - even short pictures when you Tweet.

Joseph Battipaglia

The positive tone has more to do with the economic data that showed some signs of life in the economy. We've got through the Enron debacle and some selling that represented investors looking to lock in profits earlier on. Now we're starting to get a serious picture of what next year looks like, and it's probably the first serious step toward an upward move in the market.

Dean Turner

We are seeing a shift from the destruction of data to the theft of data. They are going from hacking for fun to hacking for fortune.

William McDonough

There are data saying that the economy is starting to recover, and there are data saying that it tends to be weak,

Lewis Platt

We're integrating voice and data services on one platform -- with a single management interface and a single link to the Internet,

Dee Hock

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Eben Moglen

Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.

Edwin Powell Hubble

A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.

Charles Francis Richter

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

Louise Leakey

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Bernardo Bertolucci

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

Jim Shaw

We have seen an increase in the pace of digital phone sales during the early part of the third quarter.

David Cohen

We're in the process of transition as an industry, so there's still?a need for a specialist group to handle digital media. It's a matter of maturity.

Christie Hefner

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long. The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.

Christie Hefner

Magazines have not been distributing digital subscriptions for very long, ... The traction for digital magazines has come in the last year and a half.

Brian K. Vaughan

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

Demetri Martin

I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

Brewster Kahle

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

David Kennedy

One of the nice things about the Internet is people aren't terribly anonymous; they only think they are. Lots of footprints get left all over the place by people who are a little unwary.

Nancy Wilson

Nothing else gives me quite so much satisfaction. ... These are people I have walked with, held hands with, prayed with. This is home for me. My shoes and my footprints are home.

Gene Cernan

What I remember perhaps most is starting up that ladder and looking over my shoulder and looking at those footprints down there and realizing that they were really mine and that there weren't going to be any (more) for a long time to come.

Paul Murphy

You can see the footprints to where they went in there.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Camille Paglia

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

C. L. R. James

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Ai Weiwei

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Cassie Steele

I like mythology - anything historical.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Alan Watts

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Bruce Barber

We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

Charles Stewart Parnell

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Chinua Achebe

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require? Will the doctors, who are leaving in droves, coming to America, going to everywhere in the world - Saudi Arabia - how many of them will be there? The universities have almost completely lost their faculties and are hardly ever in session, shut down for one reason or another.

Dave Chappelle

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

Edmond de Goncourt

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Edith Wharton

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Eddie Long

I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me

Deborah King

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

Cedric Richmond

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Carol P. Christ

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Dick Morris

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Cheryl Tiegs

We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all.

John Gresham Machen

Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.

Bela Karolyi

What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.

Roger Warren

Through various different methods they've managed to squeeze residential construction.

Robert Sterling

In the off-line world, people use different payment methods in different circumstances,

Guy Caruso

We're not predicting that we're just saying that's possible.

Richard Behnke

Predicting and understanding space weather will soon be even more vital than ever before.

Larry Niven

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Alberto Fujimori

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Condoleezza Rice

We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

Loretta Napoleoni

Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have terrorism.

George W. Bush

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

George W. Bush

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Michael Hayden

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.

Charles Krauthammer

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Bruce Kovner

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

Ian Stewart

For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed.

David Rose

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.

George H. W. Bush

Unlike that other convention, what you are witnessing is real.

Homer Simpson

Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.

Tina Brown

Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.

Elaine Paige

I should think it is unlikely but you never know - never say never.

Andreas Rees

It is unlikely that reform-minded politicians will have a lot to say in the new government.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

Johnny Thunders

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.