Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Beyer

Many homeowners are not adequately adjusting their policy to cover the new value of their home. Often, the only time people review their homeowners insurance is when they first purchase the home.

Anne Mills

Neither words nor TV clips adequately communicate what has occurred.

Rich Brown

More than half of all homes are not adequately insulated. Insulating a poorly insulated house is a project that will pay off pretty quickly.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence

Edward Kennedy

Four years after 9/11, as the administration's bungled response to Hurricane Katrina makes clear, we're obviously not adequately prepared to deal with another devastating attack.

Jan Egeland

I would say every society in the world is not preparing adequately for catastrophic events.

Lee Johnson

She went before a group of people at the state level, and she adequately demonstrated her problems were in the past. With that, we approved her.

Peter Nicholson

Short term, without a storm, they are probably adequately safe. Certainly with a large storm as we are not yet out of hurricane season and certainly for next hurricane season, there is significant risk.

Peter Nicholson

Short term, without a storm, they are probably adequately safe.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Chris Abani

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.

David Siegel

We hope what people are feeling comes from the gesture this little girl makes for her family. It comes from some enlightened position. We hope the ending feels like redemption for the family, coming through Eliza. And we hope people ascribe meaning to it, and bring their own personal experiences to it.

Craig Clark

I wouldn't personally ascribe any of the weather we've seen to the weak La Nina.

Roland Barthes

To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.

Charles Golvin

I won't necessarily ascribe evil intent to this, ... but if they make it a little more difficult for you to get out of that service, even for a month or two, then that's better for their financials overall.

Isaac Newton

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

Billy Collins

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

Zhang Yimou

Love that can be explained is not love.

Bhagavad Gita

Thus the knowledge that is more secret than the secret has been explained to you by Me. After fully reflecting on this, do as you wish.

Kristy Curry

We explained to all of them they were going to have to get their feet set, square their shoulders, be fundamental and knock three's down.

Lawrence M. Krauss

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.

Kofi Annan

We've shared with them where we stand, what we hope to do next and explained to them the state of play,

Tom Fitzgerald

We've all had explained as to what is going to be called. Players were on the rules committee, so we all have to adjust.

Joe Peel

We made sure we explained to them that they're going to help other people -- they're going to help other kids and older people,

Gary McLarty

He wanted to know what my thoughts were, and I explained to him that I wouldn't do anything like this,

Linda McDermott

He explained the position to me and made me feel comfortable.

George Savile

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Moliere

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.