Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Toombs

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Robert Toombs

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

Arthur Conan

Like all other arts, the science of deduction and analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.

Sathya Baba

Let us live and move in harmony.  Let us grow together.  Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House... was ""a finishing establishment for young ladies,"" where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Robert Toombs

Mr. Monroe acquired Florida from Spain, extending the same guarantee to the inhabitants which Mr. Jefferson had to those of Louisiana.

Charles Dickens

Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.

Michael Morpurgo

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work:The hand that built the firmament hath heavedAnd smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopesWith herbage. . . .

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage. . . .

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Pat Morris

Like all the things he's gone through in the last two years, he'll take it in stride. If it doesn't happen then you haven't built yourself up too much to be let down.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Stella Young

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Raymond Seed

Levees tend to be built in very difficult situations on poor site conditions because you're essentially turning marshy land into land you can stabilize and do things on,

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Roustam Tariko

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Richard P. Feynman

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Mamata Banerjee

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

David Shore

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

Barbara Jordan

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Alexandra Paul

I'm very much a lead by example person.

Andrew McCarthy

Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,

Sven Eriksson

Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

Scott Lang

one more example of this mayor being out of touch with the neighborhoods.

Tom Megeath

Obviously, we can't go back in time and look at the Trapezium when it was still forming, so we try to find younger examples in the sky.

Ethan Hawke

My grandfather was a great example of his generation,

Mark Fuhrman

Now those are the two--two examples -- pimps, three. They're your third... probably the three most worthless type people in a large city.

Tony Stewart

Now, this year, all it's done is motivate us more. And today is an example of that.

Nora Volkow

One of the most powerful things that makes us feel good is when someone we admire, appreciate, for example, values us.

Brian Evans

From a genetic perspective, there are significant strain differences in their structure.

Martin Chalfie

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.

Rodney Brooks

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Susanna Larsson

We don't know how much milk is too much for women with genetic predisposition.

John Ballantyne

What we're looking for is the possibility of a genetic eyewitness.

Paul Souza

We've seen responses that these genetic problems are being eliminated.

Dorothy Moore

It is somewhat of a rare genetic disease,

Matthew Binns

He was the greatest in history and to get a look at his genetic material will be pretty amazing,

John Cacioppo

Our results indicate loneliness is not a personality weakness. Quite the contrary, it is just part of the genetic variation that we find in humans.

Janet Yellen

I wouldn't say we're completely out of the woods just yet. Indeed there are some issues that have the potential to be troublesome going forward.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Andrew Jackson

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Anna Seward

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

Joyce Banda

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Michael Allweiss

I think the industry is indeed vulnerable because what they are doing is not right.

Shakeel Syed

His story is indeed a story that needs to come out, and needs to be shared with the world.

Russell Smith

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

Michael Defensor

But as to how many they are, we don?t really know and they are indeed a security concern.

Mayor Lederer

Never in my lifetime have I seen this much activity.

Dimitar Sasselov

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

Donna Nelson

I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.

Philippe Petit

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

Oscar Wilde

To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance.

Charlize Theron

I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.

Bob Marley

One lifetime is not enough to live

Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

bell hooks

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Pete Rose

There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.

Charlie Sheen

Steroids build your muscles, but they don't build your tendons or ligaments.

Alice Cooper

I got a muscle of love.

Daryl Hannah

Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.

Lou Piniella

Well, the Yankees flexed their muscles today. Put 10 runs up in the first two innings, and that was that. Only one game; still have two to go.

Doug Noble

It's a sport that you use muscles that you normally don't use.

Alan Young

They're ( police ) trying to flex their muscles and say the law's still vibrant.

Muhammad Ali

I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected.

Gloria Feldt

We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

Al Reynolds

Many if not most of the property owners out there have taken the next steps.

Jake Gyllenhaal

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

Craig Bradshaw

One more chance. Next season, we have one more chance.

Ed Belfour

One minute, you're a slug. And the next minute, you're a hero.

Sal Mineo

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sidney Ponson

One at a time. The next one after one is two. It's not 10.

Laurence Barron

One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.

Chad Knaus

Obviously, we're parked right next to each other in the garage,

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

John M. Smith

I got very hammered, threw up and passed out. After that I drank, but not very often.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

George Pataki

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

T.I.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Jim Calhoun

We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Nate Robinson

The whole time from when I was selected for it, I've been watching film of Spud Webb.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Dennis Prager

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Ofer Lefler

The transfer of semen will not be allowed.

Peter Takirambudde

Any transfer to the UN could take months.