Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.

Robert Wilson

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

Kumail Nanjiani

When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

Jeff Pulver

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

Sandy Alomar

Life is based on your self-confidence. When you trust yourself, that means you know you can do things. If you don't have that trust, that means you're always going to have doubts in your mind.

Guido Mantega

Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

Matthew Peterson

Life events may force you to rethink that plan, ... Don't rethink your plan based on what's happening on the market.

Phil Garner

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

William Ward

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

Rick Perlstein

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

The Talmud

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

The Talmud

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th

Kobita Desai

Major overseas telecom players are increasingly looking beyond their home markets in the face of flat growth.

John Waters

Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay. You couldn't come out. It was illegal. But he had a sense of humor about the glamour he was caught in. He's a great sport, and a great star.

Jamie Dixon

Maggie touched so many people beyond basketball. ...As an older brother I know she looked up to me. But I always looked up to her, too, and it's obvious that a lot of other people did as well.

Unknown

Let your love endure beyond the last sunset.

Jim Jeffers

Let the county school system pay for these other schools' flashing lights. This is our charter school. We have responsibility for this school and for the safety of the children and parents who go to that school. I see no reason why we can't extend beyond the guidelines.

Barry Long

Love is beyond the mind because it is always new.

Ray Takeyh

Libya ... claims to defy international norm, yet at the same time it is hostage to international markets. Libya has nothing more than gas and oil and these are export products,

Source Unknown

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

Peter Mandelson

Of course, there's an investigation following claims of dumping,

William Shenstone

Of all that gives politeness birth, Of all that claims to please, In motion, manners, or in mirth, The surest source is ease.

Juliana Hatfield

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.

Brendan I. Koerner

Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.

Jemera Rone

Given credible claims from observer groups and the opposition political parties, there must be an impartial judicial process.

Lanny Breuer

The plaintiff's claims are without merit, as shown by the fact that the entrepreneur-defendants are supported by the expert reports of three former FCC Commissioners, including a former FCC chairman.

Bill Robertson

She turned out to be 14. He claims she told him she was 17.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Melissa Wagoner

Senator Kennedy has real environmental and economic concerns, and the federal government continues to lack a national policy and process to guide offshore alternative energy development.

W. Hull

Security continues to be a top priority for America's public transportation systems and transit systems will remain vigilant.

Ed Bryant

Miss Lewinsky continues to be, in her own way, an impressive witness.

David Quammen

One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.

Brian Reynolds

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

Like I

My hope is that he continues to be a mystery and not become predictable.

Kathleen Taylor

Now with 68 luxury hotels and resorts in 31 countries and more than 20 properties in development, Four Seasons continues to strengthen its position for the present and future. Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

John Eccles

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

George Gaylord Simpson

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

Oscar Wilde

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

Bruce Lipton

If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.

Stephen Meyer

Our policy proposal for science education is that students should learn the strengths and the scientific weaknesses of modern Darwinian theory.

Bruce Cameron

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

Laura Martin

It's a Darwinian experiment. Viacom is hoping that one or two hosts will be as popular as Howard. But Howard is a unique talent and he has loyal advertisers.

Tina Brown

'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.

Comte de Lautreamont

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Charlie Sheen

I'm grandiose because I live a grandiose life.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

Sara Schultz

Everything about this show is on such a large grandiose scale. It's the largest thing that's ever come to Rochester.

Sally Potter

It wasn't my intention to make any grandiose political statements here,

Andrew Forman

It's not going to be grandiose speeches by politicians,

Marc Morial

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

Albert Schweitzer

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Dennis Johnson

Lucas Oil? That has no meaning to me. I can't really identify with that. I don't know what Lucas Oil is.

Stavros Cosmopulos

Make the layouts rough and the ideas fancy.

Frank Brunner

Let's identify where the most pressing need is now.

Juergen Schrempp

Mitsubishi Motors is the ideal partner to increase DaimlerChrysler's presence in all parts of Asia. Outside of Japan, (Mitsubishi) has the largest market share in Asia.

Chris Noth

Mr. Big has been sticking to me, and that makes me uncomfortable. I know it's meant well when people stop me in the street and say, 'Hey, Mr. Big!' But I don't ever want to be identified by any part I've played once it's over.

Ted Hughes

Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.

Rig Veda

May all have identical resolutions! May all have identical thoughts in their hearts! May the same thought pervades each mind,so that you work in unison!.

William Burroughs

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.

Tom Chillemi

Left-handers have a natural hook. They really have an advantage.

Mat Iandolo

Obviously, there is a revenge factor. (Indiana is) obviously our natural rival.

Dave Ramsey

Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

A. N. Wilson

She was a natural leader, ... You know when there's a group, somebody always seems to be a leader? She was that.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Michael Redd

Oh, yeah, naturally it's going to be disappointing,

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

William Masters

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

Wayne Smith

Seats and papers have come to the surface.

Rick Santorum

One piece of paper ... doesn't tell me a whole lot,

Martin Straka

I can't say it in the paper what I told him.

Dirk Benedict

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Anthony Pratt

When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

Brian Harper

On paper we have it all ? speed, power, defense, solid pitching. We should have a pretty solid team.

Lleyton Hewitt

On paper it should have been the final,

Sarah Silverman

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.

Vinton Cerf

I'm still a strong proponent of getting IPv6 rolled out,

Roger Goodell

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Harland Williams

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Dave Bristow

I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.

Aaron Paul

I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

Stephen Jay Gould

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

Jillian Garza

We know that it was not a random act.

Abbie Hoffman

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

J. G. Ballard

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Random violence is incredibly infectious

Edmund Spenser

Oft stumbles at a straw.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.