Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lev Grossman

It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

John Agno

Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.

A. J. McLean

Jack is not prepared to reverse his position on this bill. We need some more time to review options that would be appropriate and applicable to all students.

Kenneth Mead

I think there were a number of other issues concerning compliance with the applicable rules. All of those contain a lot of potential for lessons learned.

Don McGahn

It illustrates what others have said, that money gets transferred all the time. This was disclosed to the extent required to be disclosed by applicable law. It just shows that donors don't control funds once they're given.

Kris Holden-Ried

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

Patrick Riley

It is not enough for the commonwealth to establish a probability, even a strong probability. That is not enough...(prosecution) must present evidence which convinces the court of the defendant's guilt to a reasonable and moral certainty, a certainty that convinces the court's understanding, ... After careful and thorough consideration of the applicable law, and calm, dispassionate and careful consideration of all the evidence...I find (Constantine Pitsas) not guilty.

Edward Bilkey

I respectfully submit that DP World is a company that in good faith sought to comply with applicable US legal requirements, and having been told by the US government that we met those requirements, now finds itself in the position of being told that that was not good enough.

John Shek

It doesn't make sense, under applicable law, military procedure, or military experience.

Chris Laramore

We want the kids to be physically fit and learn good behavior, sportsmanship, respect for themselves and for others.

Rob Enderle

Walker Digital doesn't look like much more than an idea house that comes up with ideas, then sues people who come up with similar ones. I think that kind of behavior is very similar to what happened on the high seas with pirates. It's being done under the auspices of a legitimate business practice, but in fact it's concealing behavior that is anything but fair business practice.

Naomi Campbell

very disappointed in her behavior and that she should go now.

Paul Heldman

We strongly dispute the claim that the behavior of some store managers reflected a corporate plan devised to further the company's position during the prolonged labor negotiations.

John Silva

We actually enjoy them - their behavior and how they bounce around and stuff. They've always been a pleasure. Now rats, that's a different story.

Barbara Tuchman

Human behavior is timeless.

Arthur C. Clarke

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Baltasar Gracian

Always act as if you were seen.

Demetri Martin

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

John Elderfield

We also took images of what we already owned so he could see them in context with his collection, ... It was a great couple of days. He had really thought about things.

Jim Mendelson

Until we see all the earnings reports, it's hard to define the context clearly.

Donna Wing

You don't know who you will see from one room to the next. You may have someone come in and interrupt and take things off-track. There's the element of surprise: You know you will be seeing ghosts, but you don't know in what context you will see them.

Charlie Cook

It can't hurt the president to remove himself from the current context of scandals, miscues and partisanship and put him in a statesman setting.

Andrew Heyward

Just as the enormity of Katrina has created a new context for Rita, it has also done so for us,

Kunal Kapoor

I don't think it's a disappointment. You have to take it in the context of how the stock market has been so good so long and the long-term picture.

Joe Banner

I think a lot of people, including myself, do and say a lot of things in the context of negotiations that tend to go away and be forgotten,

Adlai Stevenson

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Paul Tagliabue

Guaranteed contracts, within the context of a salary cap, takes it away from a player who is playing and gives it to a player who is not playing.

Jason Segel

The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

John Snow

We're simply making an inquiry to make sure we're on top of the situation in the Treasury markets, ... The reason to do this is simply to make sure that we're on top of the situation, understand the dynamics of that market.

Tom Anderson

You can feel surfaces, you can feel textures, you can feel dynamics and momentum.

Bill Bradley

. . . I think I do understand the dynamics

Scot Pollard

I think (the style of play) is working for us right now. The dynamics are there, we just have to keep from getting selfish and keep playing the right way.

Kara Walker

Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

Brad Childress

I don't feel we're struggling to run the football. I think we've been in some games with different dynamics where you weren't comfortable standing there thinking, 'I'm going to run it between the tackles.' That probably wouldn't be a good thing to do if you're down 17 or 20 points.

Rick Church

Never before have we had so many women in combat. Historically these women are single moms and the heads of the household. As they come home those dynamics are going to be very intense to watch.

Gina Bellman

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

Lawrence Summers

Ultimately, we're hoping to expand this further (beyond Boston).

Alan Clark

We are looking to expand in Russia but it will probably be through greenfield expansion.

David Reeves

We'd like to expand our services, but that will happen gradually,

Steve Cox

When we fill this wall, we'll expand to other walls. We'll do the whole store if we have to.

Dave Crosswhite

We're hoping to expand the league and get more kids involved, and introduce them to racing.

Robert Collins

We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.

Timothy Noah

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Todd Rundgren

I've become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that's not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven't completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.

Nedra Turney

So far, we're opening no new shelters. We're just expanding where we are.

Jorge Gallent

We need a go-to guy and he's trying his best, not only in offense, but in other facets of his game.

Marisa Berenson

When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

Vusi Mahlasela

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

Matt Adams

We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One game we'll play poor defensively and hit well. The next game maybe we won't be hitting but our pitchers will pick us up. It will come.

Pat Brown

We come from separate facets of the community, but we're not tripping over each other all the time,

Gordon Eakin

We seemed to put together all facets of the game today. Our pitchers did a nice job shutting down a very potent Southern Utah offense.

John Tortorella

We tried to win it. So we'll take the point and go from there. In all facets of our game, I was pleased.

Scott Roy

We got a pretty solid pitching performance from our guys, so I was pleased with all facets of the game.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

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'.

Jerry Johnson

We know 'Willie Time' is under two minutes. He's just an ordinary human being for the rest of the game.

Scott Horowitz

We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land.

Astro Teller

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

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

Charles de Gaulle

Never relinquish the initiative.

Bertolt Brecht

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

John Carlson

The plain legal meaning of (the) ruling is that Kirby Wilbur and I can no longer talk about Initiative 912,

Dan Barker

The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

Bob Verbeeck

Kim has taken the initiative to thank her fans.

Alan Greenspan

I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,

Gray Davis

If that initiative were to pass, investment would be withheld, and it would take years and years longer before we had a surplus of power.

Louis Brandeis

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Jaswant Singh

this was not a matter for any international initiative or intervention.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

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 Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Bryan Stevenson

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.