Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Jeb Bush

Where they didn't work, we had supply but it wasn't adequate. It was not adequate for the demand.

Edward Taylor

We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done.

Lisa Kelley

We want funding levels to be adequate to put conservation programs on the ground.

George Andrews

This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment.

Nancy Fox

We're going to enjoy a good semester or two of adequate parking at that time. We have ambitious plans to grow the university. So for the next five years or so, we're going to experience growth pains,

Bill DeWalt

What this gift does is give us the kind of confidence to know that we have sufficient resources to attract an exhibit like this and adequately market it.

Maret Traber

What this clearly shows is that to perform their vital roles, vitamins C and E work together. They have a synergistic effect that will not be gained just by intake of one or the other, and adequate levels of these nutrients is especially important for people who smoke.

Gary Ackerman

What has the federal government been doing all these years to prepare for a disaster striking a major American city, ... With all the bureaucratic federal agencies, super czars and homeland preparedness, there seems to be no national or regional master plan to evacuate people, bring in relief and adequately deal with a large scale emergency of this nature. Is there a plan in place for how to deal with the profiteers when the resettling and rebuilding begins? Is there a plan to freeze oil prices?

Louise Bourgeois

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Linda Johnson

The people who voted yes understood the issue, and that is really what we are concerned about. I think it speaks for itself.

Bill Nygren

The people who own Internet stocks are taking on a very high level of risk. Myself and most of the other managers at the conference are concerned about people who own and trade those stocks not understanding the risks they're taking.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Gerald Lucas

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what's happening in the corporate credit market.

Matt Durgin

We're not going to make an issue of it. We're more concerned who we're playing, not where we're playing.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Kate Grenville

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

Jose Rizal

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Tim Jones

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.

Sergei Shoigu

We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Alan Bradley

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Bob Castellini

We operate it. We don't own it. That's a big difference.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Carl Forti

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Jonathan Ornstein

Without the trans-Pacific operations, we can operate very profitably.

Carlos Slim

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Cofer Black

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Bill Davoren

She has the potential to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest.

Robert Turner

We have just scratched the surface of our potential business.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Aubrey Edgmon

She's starting to realize the potential she has.

Jackie Parsley

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

Jesse Miltier

She's showing a lot of potential. It usually takes until they're about 3 years old for them to reach their potential, but she's there.

Alan Watts

The wake doesn't drive the ship

David Dreman

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

Alan Shepard

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder

Benjamin Franklin

Little leaks sink the ship.

Barbara Kingsolver

Loose lips sink ships.

Jane Austen

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

Catherine Ponder

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

D. H. Lawrence

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Dave Allen

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.