Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

Victor Hugo

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.

James Greenwood

The possible cloning of human beings is now not relegated to the world of fiction, and the question to the world is this -- what should we do with this science?

Dennis Poust

We strongly object on a moral level to the destruction of human beings at any stage of development for research.

Jane Goodall

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Doug Liman

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.

Thomas Gibson

People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse, and we've gotten capable of doing more terrible things. I don't know if I necessarily think that that's true.

Max Heindel

There are various grades of spiritual sight. One grade enables a man to see the ordinarily invisible ether with the myriads of beings that invest that realm. Other and higher variants give him the faculty to see the desire world and even the world of thought while remaining in the physical body.

Niall Ferguson

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

Ken Hitchcock

We want first badly. As hard as we've worked, we've earned that right. At one time, before we were decimated by injuries, we were first overall in points. Today and Friday are points we must have.

Sarah Harding

We've spent two years together and we've really struggled. We honestly haven't earned very much in that time. Next month we are finally picking up something for all the hard work. I can tell you, we've all been waiting for that money for so long.

Sandra Cisneros

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

John Stevens

We know him well and he has already earned our respect and admiration,

Richard Chamberlain

When you've never had much money and earned little as an actor the first two years, you tend to save your money.

Holly Lisle

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Sheldon Brown

This win was even more enjoyable than last week, because we had to work harder for it. We really earned this one.

Natsuo Kirino

One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

Al Aldridge

She earned the respect of her teammates through her performance. The team was smart enough to realize they needed her if they were going to reach their goals.

Luke Mitchell

Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they can't kill. They've evolved in all these other ways, and they have these special abilities, but they can't kill. It's a very interesting concept. I really like it. I like the idea of it.

Dee Bell

We're more focused on a first group and a second group now. It's really evolved over practice. They know what I expect and what it takes now to compete.

Lynn Wargo

She just naturally evolved into our chairperson position.

John Beckman

The place sort of evolved while we've been here.

Kevin Mitnick

I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.

Isabella Rossellini

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

Erik Gordon

Gift-giving has evolved from something wonderful to ... anxiety. It's as if we're stuck with the ritual without the meaning and joy.

Ann Nocenti

I have a fascination for extra-judicial societies and underground cultures, and in situations where justice can only be found outside the law, and how these societies have evolved over the centuries.

Antoine Predock

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Zhang Ning

We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Annette Brown

We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Tara VanDerveer

We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well.

Craig Forman

The process is very seamless, and allows us to handle more loans with the same number of people. As we go forward, we can give the brokers a faster response.

Joerg Appenzeller

Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now.

Elon Musk

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Chuck Bresnahan

We're growing every week. But do I think we can handle the big back? Yes, I do. We have a whole new sense of physicality because we're playing faster and we're getting big hits.

Brian Tracy

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Nick Bostrom

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

Nathaniel Rateliff

My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Antony Sher

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Brian Eno

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Eliza Taylor

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

Eula Biss

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Ryan Kolb

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

Billy Wilder

Make subtlety obvious.

Keyshawn Johnson

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

Bruce Chen

We won, so obviously I feel very good.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Irma Gomez

We want for San Antonio to help! If you see my sister, if you see her, let us know! There is a reward out there for her.

Jaime Camil

When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

Brian Weiss

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Joanna Rose

We're not going to reward the union for striking.

Bruce Barton

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Juvenal

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Arthur Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Bruce Schneier

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

Ben Casnocha

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Vidya Balan

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

Adam Schiff

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

Adam Arkin

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

Anne Sexton

Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

Anne Heche

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.