Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliot Spitzer

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Tom Burnett

I explained this goes back centuries as an old-time Islamic symbol, ... I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this.

Iqbal Quadir

The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

Abraham Verghese

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Ian Campbell

(This) was followed and expanded over the centuries by many explorers, including Abel Tasman, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, all of whom played an important role in revealing the secrets of Australia's coast.

Virginia Woolf

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size

Joanie Madden

We had to get a lot of tracks done in one day and we really went with the spontaneity of the sound. It has a freshness to it.

Song Zhenhua

This way the scent sample can maintain its freshness for at least three years.

Andrea Barrett

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.

George Vecsey

I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.

Marcelo Porto

Many are saying that it is the end of their liquidity. But I think they will stay for a while, because there are too many derivatives linked to the receipts.

Shyla Nelson

So in that sense, it's a story that really is vitally linked to a staged situation.

Bret Harte

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

John McGahern

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

Gen. Hermogenes

It is presumed that they have already linked up.

Mike Williams

I think we're always going to be linked together,

Charles Clark

I think it would be very, very surprising if they weren't linked in some way,

Ian Williams

This is an unusual outbreak because it is linked to one source that has nationwide implications,

Jason Miller

1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn.

Michael Sands

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Nate Corddry

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Tomas Berdych

I don't know what my mindset is. I don't always understand what my motivations are,

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Joseph Biden

the question on the minds of most Americans.

Bill Parcells

The players' minds are off that game, ... They are working on San Francisco. They have been working on it since 8 o'clock this morning. They are not thinking about Washington.

Carl Guardino

The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

Carl Guardino

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

Carl Guardino

High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Alan Kay

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlie Cook

The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.

Charlie Cook

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

Charlie Cook

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

Carol Moseley Braun

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

Carlos Castaneda

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's teachings are not spiritual. I repeat this because the question has come to the surface over and over. The idea of spirituality doesn't fit with the iron discipline of a warrior. The most important thing for a shaman like don Juan is the idea of pragmatism.

Carlos Castaneda

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

Carlos Castaneda

The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.

Carlos Castaneda

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

Carlos Castaneda

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

David Nicholls

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

Bill Bryson

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

Alexander Skarsgard

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Eva Gabrielsson

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Marcus Samuelsson

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

Milton Friedman

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Izabella Scorupco

You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

Stefan Persson

If there is a Swedish style, I cannot identify it.

Joel Kinnaman

I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.

Mats Sundin

It's been a long wait for Swedish hockey.