Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernst Mayr

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

Nicholas A. Christakis

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science.

Jerry Hogle

We recognize if a certain college, like the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, gets a large influx of students, we need to help out, and we are.

B. F. Skinner

Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

Leigh Steinberg

Ricky has been in the best behavioral mode of his life. He didn't work this hard to get back only to let that happen.

Umed Ajani

People will have to be motivated for behavioral change, providers will have to take greater responsibility for educating and monitoring patients and organizations will need to develop and provide better and more effective tools and interventions.

Thomas R. Insel

Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable.

Michael K. Powell

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

Carlo Ratti

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

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.

Debbie Wing

We're not going to speak about litigation. I don't want to comment on anything in relation to this case. That's for the courts.

Lester Bagley

We have no comment on the latest Culpepper e-mail.

Rae Tyson

We have no comment on it until we're ready to release it. It's still a fluid process at this point. We look forward to significant fuel savings without sacrificing safety or doing harm to the American economy.

Karen Rugen

We have no comment as to whether or not we are being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Norman Finkelstein

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

Adam Putnam

While I would ordinarily not comment on conversations with my constituents, Ms. Meeks has given me her permission to do so,

Adam Cole

What we're likely to get is no move but all the comments suggesting that there will be a move next month.

Fadel Gheit

What he's saying makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, the source of the comment is going to send jitters in the market.

Robert Long

We got whacked on the Fed comments (Wednesday), but that reaction doesn't make sense, ... Don't you think if the Fed is hinting that interest rates will go up sooner, that suggests the economy is doing well? I think the comments bode well for the GDP (gross domestic product) report tomorrow and next week's monthly employment report.

Charles Stross

Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers can carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

Alan Alda

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

Al Pacino

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

Chris Christie

I was 32 years old, and I've changed my mind. And the biggest reason that I changed my mind was my seven years as a federal prosecutor. What I learned in those seven years was that we were spending too much time talking about gun laws against law- abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals.

Chinua Achebe

She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

Chief Joseph

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

Chesty Puller

I want to go where the guns are!

David Sedaris

But most good movies have a gun in them.

William Shakespeare

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

John Brady

Let's be honest, what are we? Twelve and five? We've played 17 games. I think we ought to reserve those kind of judgments and statements to much later down the road.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Barbara Deming

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Ed Durkin

Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors.

Arlen Specter

What you've had here . . . is not a rush to judgment -- it's a stampede to judgment,

William Lashner

In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.

Ewen McKenzie

Just play on and see who jumps up. We don't use them.

Alan Knipe

He jumps really high, and he's tough to block.

Brick Haley

He jumps out and scares the (explicative) out of them,

George Braun

Kyle can be a big time player if he keeps working at it. He's 6-5, he runs and jumps well. He can move.

Sasha Cohen

I think I was probably not nervous but just a little apprehensive. Ultimately, the jumps just weren't there.

Ashley Wright

We realized we were ok and nobody was dead. He jumps on top of me, I scream out in pain, and he jumps out the window.

Rob Scheidt

That score just jumps out at you. I've never seen that.

Leonard Sonnenschein

See that parrot fish? He likes to swim up and see people. So if he doesn't see any, he jumps up (from the water) to take a look.

Alan Moore

The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

Barry Bonds

I don't want to be a Major League coach.

Cassandra Peterson

My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies.

Alex Swartz

We're going to look like we've been in this league for 10 years. We can't even make the playoffs and we know it. We've got nothing to lose.

Sue Johnson

We?re just trying to scrap out a win every time out. In this league there?s Hartford and then there?s the rest.

Barry Zito

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

Bill Belichick

There are only three teams in the league that have a better record than they do.

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Terry Francona

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

David Daniels

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Tom Daschle

We're in a very unpredictable mode at this point,

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Kim Polese

We have no preset notion of how the model will look.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Bobby Flay

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

Balthazar Getty

I had a very modest upbringing.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Ben Nelson

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

James F. Amos

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Walter Kirn

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

Val Guest

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Source Unknown

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

Jane Austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Brigham Young

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

DeMeco Ryans

We didn't think he was that fast. He's pretty quick but we were ready for it. We were prepared for everything they did.

Deepak Chopra

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

Melaney Arnold

We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.

Joshua Sasse

Working with Ricky Gervais one week, Rutger Hauer another week, John Stamos, was fantastic.

Doc Rivers

Ricky will search for a shot, you don't have to worry about that, whether he's making it or not.

Leigh Steinberg

When Ricky is using drugs, he tells the whole world about it. He's not a liar.

Ronnie Spector

I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?

Shane Warne

If Ricky said to me at some stage 'look we really need you', then I would think about it, but I don't think it would ever come to that.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

David Appel

did not have his own sources of funding.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Allen Wallace

I thought it was a disappointing year in Arizona. Jermaine Williams was the only top-ranked player.