Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Campion

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Charlie Munger

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

bell hooks

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

Tina Brown

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

Adam Savage

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

Daphne Koller

Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

Darren Johnson

Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

Alison Bechdel

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Herbert Read

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

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.

Anna Seward

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

John Milton

Rhetoric . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate.

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.

Bayard Taylor

I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

Frank Butler

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Bret Easton Ellis

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Diane Watson

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Arlen Specter

When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.

August Wilson

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Terry Belanger

making the world a more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.