Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Aimee Mann

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Leo Tolstoy

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.

Astro Teller

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

Peter Miller

Our Business Research Group survey of 55,000 corporate travelers around the world addressed many more issues, such as call-barring, data services and silent periods, and the interesting question for long-haul flights as to what determines a 'night' period, ... It might be easy on north-south routes, such as Europe to South Africa, but much more difficult on Asia-Europe flights. It may be an 1100 departure from Tokyo to Frankfurt, but we all know the cabin blinds are down and lights out within two to three hours of departure, thereby constituting an artificial 'night' period.

Rudi Aarde

Remove the artificial watering holes and the elephants will resume their natural behavior of seasonal migration, giving places they have left a chance to recover.

Tom Walsh

I think that it is wrong. I haven't said this one time in 21 years of prosecuting, but I guarantee the appellate court is going to reverse it. It's the worst opinion I've seen - it has no basis in law. All he's doing is setting up an artificial roadblock in our attempt to bring her to justice. He is a judge, so I am not going to say anything disrespectful.

Jimmye Laycock

Marshall had an excellent surface. The artificial surfaces now are as good or better than grass.

Scott Ogden

Limestone is porous, it transmits moisture. When you create an artificial bed like I'm describing, you sort of duplicate that kind of environment.

Ruben Sierra

I didn't pick it up right away, ... With the glare off the artificial turf, you don't see the ball right off the bat. And then I didn't want to try to catch it and have it go by me.

Ken Buck

I don't believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so - while I live in Colorado - you see where I live. I love the environment. And - and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don't want government to put artificial standards on us.