Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksander Kaasniewski

We know with all the certainty that Poles were among the oppressors and assassins.

Michel Patini

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Maajid Nawaz

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Donna Shalala

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

Bob Hamilton

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that hard a sport. That has all changed as the game has grown - especially among young people. There is a lot more respect for the players and the sport. People now are aware of how difficult it is to be good at golf.

David Patterson

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

Mark Foster

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

Dwight Davis

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

Patrick Page

The point of 'Othello,' among other points, is that it is impossible to know another human being,

Charlie Chaplin

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

David Agus

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

David Talbot

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

Will Sheridan

When you think about it, it's natural to double our guards because they are amazing. They are the dominant force of our offense. But when I have the open shot I take it.

Dave Kang

While maintaining its status as the dominant supplier of premium fiber and cable, Corning has emerged as one of the premier players in the red-hot optical networking space.

Matt Brown

We felt like Barrett Moore was a dominant blocker and we have a lot of respect for him,

Jake Herlihy

She was everything as advertised. She's a dominant player, very strong and physical.

Marc Walters

She has been our most dominant player. She's made herself into a marquee performer.

Dianne Lewis

We have to play strong on the boards. Neither team is very tall. Nobody has a big dominant post player inside. All the small things are going to count.

Charles Boucher

I think the dominant theme is the extraordinary strength in the PC market and obviously the microprocessor market in the fourth quarter.

Patrik Elias

When he's on, he's the most dominant player in the league.

Wayne Rogers

We've finally put it together to start playing well, and we don't have one dominant player, so we have to play well together.

Cory Doctorow

What little empirical evidence is out there points to eBooks and free downloading increases sales on a net basis.

George Akerlof

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

Alan Huffman

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

Philip Shaw

A lot of research in intelligence has not been that great. I would hope by this modest descriptive study to put things on an empirical footing.

Adnan Pachachi

The security forces are perceived by many Iraqis as being under the influence of these militias. There seems to be empirical evidence that especially the Interior Ministry have been infiltrated by these forces, no doubt.

John Fiske

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

Charles Tennyson Turner

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Buddy Pough

We know what they can do, and they've been stopped so far this season.

Mike Thomas

We know we have the potential to go far into the playoffs.

Allison McGeer

We know from the testing that's been done so far that this is not influenza, we know this is not SARS, we know this is not avian influenza. There are many other viruses it could be ... and the Ontario Public Health lab is working very hard on identifying which one of those viruses it might be.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Russell Crowe

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

John Hahn

She holds us together. She shoots some big threes and she's my first 1,000-point scorer in the six years since I've been here.

Shaan

Jal Mahal, Jaipur, holds a special place for me and it is especially beautiful by night. I enjoy our stay at the old havelis in the region.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Stephanie Plowman

It holds unique material that requires special handling.

Mike Hidde

He holds the offense together. He can do a lot of things. They throw in a lot of kids, but he's the one consistent. He makes plays and makes things happen.

Archie Bunker

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Pankaj Mishra

Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

Dorothy Dunbar

That's what holds me up. I got faith.

Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Neil Harbisson

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Alan Dershowitz

Any human being has private thoughts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Howard Eisen

Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

Dmitri Mendeleev

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

Dmitri Mendeleev

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Don Brownlee

It's a crystalline silicate grain. This is great; we've already got scientific results.

Amy Fisher

It was really interesting, ... It was scientific illustration.

Julia Brown

It's a pretty scientific group, a pretty skeptical group.

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Ben Bernanke

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

Tim Banner

He was just typical Josh. There are things he could have done better, but he was all right.

Beck

I didn't want to do something typical.

Dick Van Patten

My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.

Maisie Williams

Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.

Barbara Mertz

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Adam Sandler

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

Adam Lambert

I don't like to look typical.

Diane Abbott

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Ellen Gilchrist

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Angelus Silesius

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Brad Thor

Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.

Harry Friedman

We know our visitors like to see us in different cities,

Sara Shepard

My sister and I visited Iceland in 2001, and I incorporated it into 'Pretty Little Liars.'

Jack Kelly

Visitors may want (the vendors), but it's not all about the visitors.

Martha Beck

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Eric Kripke

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.