Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

Tyler Cowen

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.

Mariella Frostrup

I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

Nick Harkaway

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

Feroze Mohamed

Since brain activation is arguably less susceptible to being controlled by an individual, our research will hopefully eliminate the shortcomings of the conventional polygraph test and produce a new method of objective lie detection that can be used reliably in a courtroom or other setting.

Dennis Franchione

Mike is probably one of the nation's elite running backs, and arguably the top running back in the state of Texas. One of the things that sticks out to me is that he's a pretty complete back coming out of high school.

Scott Sharp

She's arguably the best on-track package there is in racing.

Ron Jaworski

I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

Shane Warne

But when it's Glenn McGrath, arguably the best fast bowler in the world, you want to give him every chance to play and if that means it's a last-minute decision then it's a last-minute decision.

Ed Black

The reality is that we have a history with Gore and have worked with him on many issues. There are people in the Bush camp who don't seem to grasp tech issues, and they have sent out some signals I'm not comfortable with. Gore really understands the essence of the industry, and I think his appointees to key places would reflect that understanding.

Bill Whalen

The reality is that the knee-jerk reaction by the governor's opponents to take him down is to call (Schwarzenegger) a Bush Republican,

Michael Genovese

The Reagan legacy is very vulnerable because George W. Bush has embraced it so wholeheartedly. Bush is the model, not the father, of the legacy. So much of the Reagan legacy is dependent on the Bush legacy.

Conrad Black

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Raza Rabbani

The people of Pakistan are rather disappointed. They have seen the U.S. pay a great deal of lip service supporting democracy in Muslim countries, but when we look at what is happening in Pakistan, President Bush says he shares the president's views and his democratic vision for Pakistan. For a great many, that is flawed.

Thad Cochran

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Ted Cruz

President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

Elliott Abrams

During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.

Elaine Sciolino

In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.

Roger Pilon

With today's decision, no one's property is safe, since any time a government official thinks someone else can make better use of your property than you're doing, he can order it condemned and transferred.

Yasser Arafat

I don't know. But you know we have condemned this. And not only that, I gave instructions to search who had sent this.

Atharva Veda

No one should be condemned as trash; even a little stick can serve as a toothpick!

Sathya Baba

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

Denis Villeneuve

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Voltaire

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

John Harvey Kellogg

When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

Nick Clegg

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

Paul Thompson

We have to go with the decision that's been made and they're going to give him a shot. I definitely want to get back out there and do what they expect me to do.

Emma Udwin

We have no intention of taking any measures that would harm the population of Belarus if a decision is taken to undertake further restrictive measures. Those measures would be targeted on those who are deemed to be responsible for elections which have been judged not to be free and fair.

Bruce Bochy

We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk.

Dawn Ostroff

We have some big decisions walking into our scheduling meetings with as few holes as we have.

Henry Leger

We have some big decisions on our plate.

Jeff Beeman

When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.

Bob Woods

We want our members to be able to make a decision without being intimidated. Nothing in the letter (from Bass) is illegal, but there are subtle threats in there.

Spencer Abraham

We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children,

Aaron Sorkin

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Dan Hopkins

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Daniel Akaka

We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Tim Butler

We're looking at several different sources. We haven't secured a particular funding stream yet.

John McIlwain

Right now, many people are in limbo and don't know whether to rebuild or what to do next. There needs to be a plan, and there needs to be funding for that plan, but right now there is neither.

Jan Davis

The only place we have left to turn now is the cities. If we don't get funding from them, I'm not sure what we're going to do at this point.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Dave Coleman

I hate to see the funding cut, but it will probably be.

Mike Parks

I have been told that we should know about the ITEP funding within the next three weeks.

Terry Hayes

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

Ed Smith

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

Erik Estrada

Oh my God... I worked with George C. Scott, way before 'Chips,' in 'The New Centurion.' I co-star in that movie. It was great working with him. I worked with Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum. Stacy Each. The old Hollywood. I met John Wayne, and that was a thrill. I was working next door to him.

Ravi Shankar

We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever.

Corey Brewer

When you turn on the TV, all you see is George Mason, so you can't really overlook them.

Tom Pecora

We're rooting for George Mason. I'm really getting a kick out of it.

John Hancock

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

Jerry Palm

The regular-season championship is going to mean something. Say Temple, Saint Joseph's or Xavier wins it, then that team plus George Washington could get in.

Gai Waterhouse

She won't be nominated for the George Main,

Carlos Mesa

I have reached a limit in my work.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We know how they play, they're very stingy defensively. We're just going to have to match that. We have to limit their chances, try not to give them any odd-man chances, and score when we get the opportunities.

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Erin McKean

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Nayvadius Cash

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Edward Said

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Ted Cruz

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,

Bob Beauprez

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Bob Beauprez

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

Arlen Specter

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Proverb

Some things are better praised by silence than by remark

Jim Calhoun

Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

Susan B. Anthony

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

David Greenberg

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

David Powers

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Carolina Herrera

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Alan Stern

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

Alan Turing

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

Alan Turing

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Alan Shepard

Why don't you light that candle ?

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

C. S. Lewis

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.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

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.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!