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certain diffidence valour
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. Charles Caleb Colton
certain one-thing
For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same. Alan Moore
certainty evidence deals
Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence. David Milne
certain head movies
I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies. Lucas Till
certain filmmaker individual observed point rather
I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view. Lisa Cholodenko
certainty forms global humans life nuclear producing soon stand threat tinker verge vintage war
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees. Michael Specter
certainly continued obviously president relationship white
I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty. Monica Lewinsky
certainly chinese doctors filtered following four gotten government individual latest listed manual medical ordinary people perceive profession raid shows step until version
Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward. Scott Long
certainty clearly johnson objective offer potential providing superior today upside value
We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.
considerate considerate-and-caring be-considerate
He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
consider freedom government
I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile. Michael Moriarty
consider evening luxurious people
The people who live there don't consider it a casino. It's a luxurious place to go for an evening out. Bill Thompson
consider direct economics given industry itself number percent point
The point is the industry itself shouldn't be straddled with constraints that many of our direct competitors don't have. We feel the number 30 percent isn't really justified. It's very, very arbitrary. We consider a number around 40 percent to be more appropriate given the economics in the industry.
consider senior until wait year
We usually wait until an athlete's senior year to consider going to Arcadia.
consider empower ladies ourselves strive
We strive for excellence, and we empower women. We consider ourselves the ladies on campus.
consider
When you've been here, and you consider it your house, you're at home.
consider involved love meet people
When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consider it) a very big part of their lives, and love to see the shows,
considered
I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why. Laurent Brancowitz
correction cost customer effect far focus led market negative ongoing online reduction renew retailers retailing
The ongoing dot.com market correction is far from having a negative effect on online retailing as a whole. It has actually led online retailers to renew their focus on customer service, cost reduction and profitability.
correct noticed people starting
We've already noticed that people are starting to correct their behaviors. Greg Turner
correct win
We spotted them a two-goal lead, ... To win in this league, you've got to play for 60 minutes. We've got to find a way to correct that.
corrects frames opposition remarks
A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture. Gretchen Rubin
correct function functions good looks message people trying
We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard. Michael Graves
correction hal needs sees
We have to get (Juan) going. I think (hitting coach) Hal (McRae) sees the correction that he needs to make.
correct people period time
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was. Natasha Trethewey
correct learn
We don't have any excuses. We didn't play very well. We'll correct our mistakes. We'll learn from them. Mike Nolan
correct defensive mistake sit talking team totally watching
Watching with buddies, you're talking about look at that dunk, look at that 3. You sit down with a coach, and he's talking about look at this defensive mistake that team made and how to correct it. So you're getting a totally different look from him. Marcus Ginyard
dealing might serving stop
We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.
deal dime increase nickel offer recognizes table three wage
We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.
deal might ready supposed systems understand whatever
We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.
dealing hierarchy might military properly
We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.
deal opportunity positives sanctions ten tournament understanding
The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.
deal egyptian palate pleasures strangle whom
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
deal earn employees exemplary great hard hard-work honor proud represents salute share team work
We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.
deal later super
We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl.
deals people valuable
There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.
dost gentle perfumes thou
Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
dost heart prefer pure temples thou upright
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure John Milton
dost good labor price sell
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor Leonardo da Vinci
dost doth health joy pain thou
If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. Benjamin Franklin
dost faults judgment quick thou
Thou dost knowThe faults to which the young are ever prone;The will is quick to act, the judgment weak.
dost freedom secret sell thou thy whom
To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell
dost smell thou
Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate Samuel Butler
dost establish judgment loveth strength thou
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
dost restless thou thy wear weary
How dost thou wear and weary out thy days, / Restless Ambition, never at an end! Samuel Daniel
enables
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
enables team
Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful. Tim Ryan
enables national ventures viable
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. David Selby
enable essential great knife knives
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. Eric Ripert
enables taken
I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.
enables
Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression. Wendy Kopp
enables fine life means money useful
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.
enables share
The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy. Anita Borg
enable expand market producers
Only as we expand the market can we enable more and more producers to come in.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
judgment profit draws
A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see . William Shakespeare
judgment checks good-judgment
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. Baltasar Gracian
judgments later ought played reserve statements twelve
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. John Brady
judgmental hard
I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental. Jane Fonda
judgment should judgment-of-others
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. Barbara Deming
judgment liar thief
Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel, Lawrence Eagleburger
judgmental cop behavior
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous. Barbara Sher
judgments translate vote
Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors.
judgment rush
What you've had here . . . is not a rush to judgment -- it's a stampede to judgment, Arlen Specter
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
learning ignorance knowledge
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 Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learn offspring reason
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.
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
management function greater
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C. Northcote Parkinson
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.
manipulative
I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manhattan
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! Ed Koch
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
passion pride ill-will
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
passion hunting breasts
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
passion exercise order
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
passion greed may
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
passion sloth causes
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.
passion swings giving
By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
passion men wind
The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
passion suffering blinded
So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
passion thinking gentleman
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.
reference
Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.
references
Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns. Brooke Shields
reference science whatsoever
If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.' Esther Hicks
reference represents surrogate
He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.
reference understand
I'm only 30. I don't really understand the reference that much.
references somebody
All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100! Lauren Graham
references
You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people. Peter Capaldi
thought-provoking house ceilings
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? Chinua Achebe
thought-provoking giving headache
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
thought-provoking
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
thoughtful long battle
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come. David Quammen
thoughts-of-death repose
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. Cesare Pavese
thoughtful decision sticks
I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it. Casey Stoner
thoughtful talking going-away
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.
thousand conscience
Conscience is a thousand swords.
thoughtful perfect levels
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful. C. S. Lewis
understanding mind half
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.
understanding vietnam realizing
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.
understanding sides stories
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster
understanding safe too-much
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
understanding realizing understood
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
understanding humanity different
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. David Koechner
understanding curiosity kind
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy Carl Sagan
understanding joining magnificence
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
whether
I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular. Leos Carax
whether wonder
Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.
whether
Whether they made the right choice, who knows? Pierce Brosnan
whether
Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.
whether
Whether or not they do it is still in question.
whether
Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say. John Podhoretz
whether
Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.
whether
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. Leonard Mlodinow
whether
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. Matt Mullenweg
wrong-person persons
Fear is just faith in the wrong person. Bill Johnson
wrong-person persons better-off
You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person. Cat Deeley
wrong
We were as wrong as you could get.
wrong-time right-thing
There is no wrong time to do the right thing. Charles M. Blow
wrong-road
You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one. Bob Parsons
wrong
With Nixon, you see the right way to do it and the wrong way to do it. Douglas Brinkley
wrong-number phones numbers
He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said. Anthony Horowitz
wrong-things
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. Dean Koontz
wrong-things
Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing. Ashleigh Brilliant