Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Short

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

M. Thompson

The PAS system is perfect for anyone who abhors prospecting, selling, and closing deals. When you use PAS, you never have to cold-call strangers or attend boring sales meetings. Their expert staff does it all for you.

Michael Shermer

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

J. M. Coetzee

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

John Wycliffe

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.

Thomas Buxton

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength

Robert Osborne

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Marco Brambilla

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

Carl Jacobs

We're not catching anyone off guard this year. We're the hunted and everyone is looking forward to knocking us off.

Cynthia Price

We're not calling anyone a suspect. At this time, the Richmond Police Department has not identified a suspect, but we have several persons of interest. We've interviewed several people extensively.

Jo Koy

Man, I don't know how it was for other comics, but that one appearance has changed my life. Everyone knows 'The Tonight Show,' no matter young or old. You don't have to beg anyone to watch ... they just turn it on.

Leonard Johnson

Like anyone would do, I said you take his leg, you take whatever you can to save his life.

John Andrews

Like all alcoholics, I would start New Year's Eve promising to control how much I drank. In the morning, I'd wake up hoping to God I hadn't hurt anyone on the drive home. It's the hardest time of year for recovering substance abusers because you're surrounded by overindulgence -- it's impossible to escape, and there's little empathy for those who have struggled with addiction.

Keith Rogers

Luckily I had somebody to help me in the street that kept calling and calling and calling that's the only way I got out. If you don't have anyone to help you, you're just lost in the system.

Scott Shields

Many of these same Auxiliarist's, who responded with the BEAR Foundation, work in Sector New York and attended a seminar on 'Responding to the 500 Year Flood', held in the first week of June,

Bud Selig

Setting the all-time attendance record for a second straight year shows that baseball's popularity is greater than ever, ... We are living in baseball's golden era.

Mitchell Rhodes

Secondly, we expect parents to be in regular attendance in a church to continually influence raising and upbringing of the children,

Philippe Reines

Senator Clinton had a long planned day of events with her constituents in New York and wasn't able to attend the short-notice briefing attended by the chairman and two members of the minority. Her defense aide attended, and she's going to continue to work hard to make sure that our men and women in uniform get the resources they need.

Ambika Soni

Ministers from both the Congress and the JD-S attended this meeting.

David Scott

My largest disappointment was that I could attend only three out of nine workshops. I would like to see the program extended to two full days to provide more opportunities to engage in workshops.

Rob Valli

One of the things we're trying to do is expand our attendance numbers.

Lindsey Williams

Obviously, we don't plan to attend the rally.

Sylvia Hatchell

None of us get the attendance that we deserve. None of us do.

Kristin Cast

As boring as it sounds, I don't feel any different than I did before the 'House of Night.'

Jack Straw

Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.

Jennifer Hewitt

Life will never be boring for my character and her husband.

Thomas Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it

Amber Riley

My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas.

Tiesto

My favorite all-time artist... I would say, I think that must be Sigur Ros, I love that band. It's like going to the stars for me. When I put the music from Jonsi or Sigur Ros on, it's so relaxing, it's warm and it never gets boring to listen to, you always hear new things. Yeah, that must be my favorite band.

Chris Cuomo

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Twiggy

I love exercise, but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates, and taking dance lessons.

Diane Kruger

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

Iris Evans

We're not closing the door to looking at the insurance-based model for one part or for several parts of the health-care system,

Joe Aiello

Letting teams back into games that we should be closing out has nothing to do with who we are playing and the level of competition. Every game we should be trying to improve and do what we do better whether we are playing Clovis West or Fresno High.

Harley Shaiken

Losing 30,000 jobs, closing 14 plants, has enormous consequences not just for the union, but for the future of their members. It is a major blow.

Jeff Backus

My first preference would be to test the market, without closing the door on coming back. I feel I have earned the opportunity to explore my options.

Jean Killy

Of course, not everything is finished yet and the IOC will continue to worry until after the closing ceremony, just as we do at every Olympic Games. The remaining test events will give the games organizers vital opportunities to further improve on plans that have been drawn up for the venues now being completed.

Abel Oshevire

One was detained yesterday and the other two on Monday. I think we are closing in on them, we are closing in on the kidnappers.

Ethan Harris

More and more of the job losses are in industries that are effectively closing down domestically. This has been a gradual process since the 1950s, but it seems to have accelerated.

Tony Lesiak

May be the San Martin mine might be closing a year earlier than expected. It's a modest negative.

Bill Gates

Now the growth in the last year in Europe was very rapid and so you can say the gap is closing a bit. But I think it's still an issue of great concern. A lot of kids graduate from college in Europe without having the in-depth exposure that most U.S. students receive. So there's work to be done.

Carol Sanders

Whenever you're looking at something like this, it's important to get as many experts in the field to help you.

Lance Armstrong

four or five anti-doping experts around the world that have gone on the record and said this is crazy.

Caroline Brown

From Sunday there will just one expert who will stay on for two weeks.

Meg Symington

Because the U.S. conservation groups are participating, we are able to provide technical expertise regarding how these funds should be used and ... the most important places where they should be spent.

Robert Ballard

So, I'm able to network experts on demand, when I need them.

Brad Hintz

Trading expertise is something that you can purchase on the marketplace.

Nicholas M. Butler

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Nina Easton

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Niels Bohr

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Kristin Cast

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Ron Miller

One person's sprawl is another person's perfect development.

Chris Evert

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Diane Kruger

The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

Dennis Prager

The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left

Edgar Allan Poe

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

Eike Batista

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Eileen Caddy

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Andy Miller

Right now our support staff is really under the gun,

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Ed Fulton

We've got a better infield that we had a year ago. With the staff that we have that should work pretty good.

Mike Gonzalez

We're struggling in the bullpen, too. The whole staff is struggling.

Jeanette Winterson

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

Barack Obama

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Will Rogers

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.