Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Penrose

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Marc Benioff

My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.

Stephane Dion

Let us be driven by the responsibilities we have and feel, responsibilities to our respective countries, to humanity, to our one and only planet, ... Let us seek consensus for outcomes that move us all toward substantial solutions. Let us set our sights on an effective, more inclusive, long-term international approach to climate change.

Sathya Baba

Make positive approach turning towards Divinity. The difference lies only in turning your mind.

Tamsyn Lewis

Make no mistake, this was discussed straight after the race and it was decided Jana and I would approach officials.

John Stout

Luke has matured. His outlook has changed. He approaches the sport from a different point of view now. He was so aggressive. He'd come out like a maniac. Now he's smarter, more calculated.

Brownie Carson

Maine has effectively eliminated all household products that contain mercury from store shelves and the waste stream. Maine?s ?can-do? common sense approach is leading the nation in reducing the toxic mercury in our environment.

Stephane Dion

Let us set our sights on a more effective, more inclusive long-term approach to climate change,

Jamie Shea

Let's see how we come out on this one. As far as NATO is concerned, we are talking about a single force with unity of command, robust rules of engagement and a common approach throughout Kosovo.

Rowan D. Williams

More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.

Jennifer Morgan

My hope is that the end product won't look like the draft. I am counting on Germany, France and Britain to ensure that this text is put into shape.

James Bamford

Maybe nothing will come of it. Maybe the next time he tries to enter the United States or Britain he will be denied, without explanation. Maybe he will be arrested.

Sarah Harrison

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

Maajid Nawaz

For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.

Stephen Kinzer

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.

Ed Miliband

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

David Bowie

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

Aguri Suzuki

I have made several trips to Britain in the last few months and, as far as the paperwork is concerned, I am clear. But there is little else we can do without Honda's assistance.

Alexandra Paul

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Alexandra Adornetto

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Rod Blagojevich

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Malorie Blackman

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

Luke Selking

We're not doing anything to help those children excel.

Aaron Baker

like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.

Margie Dorshorst

Lighted Schoolhouse Night is designed to connect the parents and the children with the school.

Bill Clinton

Let us, in short, do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over, we will all watch the sun go down -- as we all must -- and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

Robert Teeter

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

Marco Brambilla

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

Herb Perone

Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadwinner.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Bill Bixby

Luck has created much of what I have today, but at the same time, I haven't sat still.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares. Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares, ... Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Jeff Greene

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Guru Nanak

Let him exert himself to the utmost in order to increase his property in a righteous manner, and let him zealously give food to all created beings.

Lionel Jospin

like a thunderbolt ... particularly worrying for France and for our democracy.

Corazon Aquino

Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our democracy and who are searching for the truth.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

Now we must ensure a free and fair election. This is a big victory for democracy.

Audrey Miller

Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to influence state law. Little old me spoke and I was heard. It?s democracy in action.

Diane Ravitch

An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy

Democritus

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Edward Abbey

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

David Anderson

I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy.

Richard Lamm

He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.

Steve Hall

Mandatory hunter education is really having an impact.

Maggie Gallagher

lifelong experience in marriage research, public education and advocacy.

Robert Hemenway

Let us use the evolution controversy to intensify our efforts to provide a world-class education to our students and to support the faculty who engage in the important research and teaching missions of our schools and universities,

Richard Crawford

Less than 1 percent of the prairie grass region remains unplowed, and this is one piece of that. So, not only is it important for the university to save it for education and research, but also so it can be a good, productive member of society.

Dara Duguay

Many corporations are starting to embed financial education for their employees.

Matt Rexroad

McPherson has also been a strong supporter of public education and has a record in recognizing issues in education.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

John Probst

My experiences and education from Penn State were paramount to getting the offer from Ford.

Boris Yeltsin

Many provisions of the law infringe on constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens, establish inequality between different confessions and violate Russia's international obligations.

Tommy Lewis

One of the things we wanted to do tonight if we could was to establish some other offensive threats.

Frank Solich

One thing that we couldn't do was let them establish a ground game, and they did that. Once they did that, they had a lot of things going for them.

Newt Gingrich

My goal was to establish a Republican majority for a long time, not just to win three elections,

Phyllis Zilm

We had a week's worth of practices two weeks ago, and it was just enough to get the ladder set and establish the varsity team, and that's about it. We've been playing some lobby tennis inside the high school and running in the gym.

Kenji Johjima

I can't imagine starting on opening day. My first job is to be a part of the team. To do that, I have to learn to communicate with the pitchers. I have to establish myself. I have to prove myself.

Mike Daniels

I found a landlord who would work with me to establish my business.

David Keene

Fusion is all about integrating SOA technologies together. We want to establish Fusion Middleware as the SOA standard for BAM implementations.

Rhett Bomar

I have a great opportunity to go out there and do some things to establish myself. I'm really excited. This is what I've been working for. It's what I've been trying to do all my life and now it's here.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Carl Sandburg

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

Mike White

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Mohammed Habib

Maybe after the president wins elections, as we're sure he will, the freedoms that we've seen for the Brotherhood over the last year will be taken away.

Marsha Blackburn

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Albert Schweitzer

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

Dennis Prager

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

Dennis Prager

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion

Dennis Prager

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

Edward Abbey

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Cary Elwes

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Camille Paglia

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Ed Parker

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

Dixie Lee Ray

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Abraham Lincoln

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Dick Cheney

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

Antonio Graves

We need to stick to the principles of our defense.

A. J. Liebling

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Albert Schweitzer

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Dennis Prager

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

Dennis Prager

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Dennis Prager

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Dennis Prager

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Dennis Prager

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

Dennis Prager

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Denis Diderot

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.