Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

David Mitchell

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Chen Shui-bian

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Gordon Hinckley

Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil.

Bob Lewis

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Benoit Mandelbrot

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Charles Spurgeon

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Vanna Bonta

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Nick Russo

We want people to understand that this deadline is only for new disaster applications. If they have already applied, their cases will continue to be processed. Mississippians who need assistance need to register with FEMA before the deadline.

Rick Robertson

The people of Michigan are generous in their concern and assistance in times of need. We pull together as a community to help in any way we can.

Allan Urlis

We want them to call us, so payment arrangements can be made, so they can be put in contact with any assistance that's available.

Noriyuki Suzuki

The possibility of North Korea making a (positive) decision increases somewhat if economic assistance is dangled in front of their eyes.

Grant Woods

The people who have been in this devastation don't have anything. They don't have their homes anymore. They don't have any of their belongings. They basically got away with the clothes on their back and little else so I'm sure whatever assistance they can get they're very glad for.

Paul Anderson

The people who draw up the plans should be able to execute the plans. Now we have one office taking in grant applications, reviewing emergency plans by state and local governments and determining where federal assistance should go, yet FEMA is tasked with managing the response and marshalling the assets.

Paul Anderson

The people who draw up the plans should be able to execute the plans, ... Now we have one office taking in grant applications, reviewing emergency plans by state and local governments and determining where federal assistance should go, yet FEMA is tasked with managing the response and marshaling the assets.

Bryan Brown

We are prepared to provide help in any way we can to those Fair Grounds personnel who need economic assistance and housing.

Rodrigo Rato

We are prepared, as in the past, to provide financial support by augmenting existing programs or by providing new financial assistance to countries that experience drought-related balance of payments needs.

Eric Hyman

We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.

Paul Wohlleben

The real issue is executing those plans over a dynamic period of time. Most of these systems, you don't implement in a week, you don't implement in a year. They're multiyear implementations in a political environment where laws are being changed, in a budgetary environment where budgets are being changed.

Jonathan Katz

The real challenge is going to be increasing social spending while at the same time not expanding the budget deficit.

Proverb Proverbs

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Meta Minton

We know how our school districts struggle with finances. Obviously if there is greater (financial) support (from the state), they're going to have a better performance as long as they try to work within a budget and framework.

Charles Leonard

This will mean a significant decrease of monies in the budget.

Chuck Graham

This was not a high-budget enterprise that I could see. Other people come to Hope to shoot commercials and such, and they throw money around right and left.

Ellen Stofan

We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'

Callie Khouri

There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

Loyola Sullivan

We have a staggering debt level, and government must ensure our expenditure levels are kept within our means,

Bobby Scott

When you run up this kind of deficit, we talk about increasing the debt limit, but one thing you have to do is pay interest on all of that debt.

Charles Caleb Colton

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Robert Shireman

We've seen a sea change, a real shift over the past generation from a system where less than half of students left with debt and now two-thirds leave with debt. Now, it's become the norm to leave with debt -- and often with a lot of debt.

Jeffrey Sachs

There is no doubt that Malawi needs 100 percent debt cancellation as soon as possible, and I will do everything possible to speed that up.

Ted Cruz

It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

David Graeber

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

David Graeber

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

David Graeber

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Theodor Mommsen

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Richard Nichols

We feel as though the town is at a turning point. If we don't slow things down now, these lands could be lost forever.

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Ric Keller

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Gale Norton

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Michael Ritchie

If we don't do it, it will be lost to history. Plays like this were a big part of the theatrical landscape for a long time.

William Hazlitt

Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

Tammy Faye Bakker

The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

Aesop

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Anne Rice

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Carlos Moya

It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

C. Wright Mills

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

William Shakespeare

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Juvenal

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal

Everything in Rome has its price.

Benjamin Tucker

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.