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.

Henry Ford

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

Larry Ellison

My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.

Chad Hurley

I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.

Glen Davis

I feel we're gaining respect. We're doing something special here.

Edgar Prado

She was in a good position but (Proposed) had quicker acceleration than my filly. I think that was the difference. But my horse was gaining and she galloped out good and strong.

Corky Palmer

I don't even have one. I never even think about that stuff. I just want to keep gaining strength.

Cody Pickett

I'd better start gaining some more weight if I'm going to be tackling people. I've been losing all this weight playing Marvin Harrison and Larry Fitzgerald.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Patrick Mason

Life is what happens while you are trying to get well.

Will Rogers

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Margaret Millar

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Chris Beatty

Life will throw stones at you, and it's what you do when that happens that counts.

Theodore Roethke

Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.

Andrew Taylor

Life has overtaken our original plans, and we're hear tonight to talk about the tragedy this weekend. We're here to talk about what happened and to try to prevent it from happening again.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Michael Wickett

Life doesn't happen to us, it happens from us

Michael Wickett

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Steve Case

lead the convergence of the media, entertainment, communications and Internet industries.

Doug Lewis

One of the unfortunate things about the Internet is it has made everyone gratification-happy instantaneously. But we are not going to be able to get this done in Internet time.

Rick Kaufman

One of our students received a warning ... through the Internet last night at their house.

Jenny Emanuel

We want to make sure the Internet is secure.

Kofi Annan

only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.

Andrew Vachss

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Tanya Harris

Unless you have Internet access, a lot of people are left completely out of the loop. We want to let them know what their options are. We just want people to vote.

Najib Razak

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Chris Larsen

No-cost loans are pretty popular right now, especially for people with larger loans. The larger your loan, the smaller the penalty for no-cost loans.

Richard Greenfield

One of the things they'd like to do is return more to shareholders, and ... a larger buyback makes a lot of sense at this point.

John Burns

Of course, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Rwanda -- things on a much larger scale than this. But this is pretty bad.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Tim Curry

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

James Clarke

We have two skeletons preserved, the larger lying on top of the other one.

Steve Case

From a pure technical standpoint, it does look like Microsoft may win this one,

Greg Scott

From my perspective, what Microsoft is doing is right on target.

Bob Muglia

Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows

Chris LeTocq

Where there's competition, Microsoft prices aggressively and competitively; where there isn't, Microsoft doesn't.

Dan Kaminsky

We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.

Jeff Cohen

The only thing I think really needs to be addressed by Microsoft is biometrics.

Jeff Johnson

He was saying, 'Look what I did at Microsoft and look what I can do for you.

Craig Mundie

Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

Donald Clark

MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

Eric Norris

My door's always open, ... My phone is always ready.

John Ball

For sure, he would have wanted me to play. At least I got to talk to him on the phone (Saturday) morning.

Dave Morin

I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

Jodi Dias

On the phone we clicked. But when I saw him, I was like, 'Wow.' I got more interested.

George Torres

Since the Culpepper announcement our phones have been ringing off the hook.

John Madden

I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.

Adriana Lima

If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

Abigail Breslin

My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.

Chris Black

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Edward Castronova

One thing that's surprising is how serious this is. It's now my career.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Edsger Dijkstra

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Edward Abbey

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Dom DeLuise

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

David Nicholls

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Brian Johnson

Any way you slice it, it doesn't look good.

Bruce Bagley

They are just out for their own slice of the pie.