Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Juan Ruiz

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

S. Walker

Let a new earth rise. Let another/ world be born. Let a bloody/ peace be written in the sky./ Let a second generation full of / courage issue forth; let a / people loving freedom come/ to growth.

Christopher Paolini

Many people have died for what they believe... the real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Jeffrey Hawk

So he did the right thing, the courageous thing and dismissed the case.

H. Hart

My first laps in the Courage were really satisfying, throughout the three free practice sessions, I bettered my lap times by 2 seconds per session. By doing so, I wasn't too far away from the regular prototype drivers in qualifying.

David Quarmby

Nelson was a very special kind of person, with huge courage, leadership and people skills but with huge flaws,

Arthur Rimbaud

one single true word: it is, COME BACK. I want to be with you, I love you. If you listen to this you will prove your courage and sincerity. Otherwise, I am sorry for you. But I love you. I kiss you and we'll see eachother again...

Paul Rieckhoff

men and women of extraordinary courage and incredible capability. But it's time we had leadership in Washington to match that courage and match that capability.

Jim Volk

Maybe the psychology is changing. Maybe we get a little courage back here.

Elliot Mintz

So it would appear. Yes. I'm not going to deny that there was a split.

Debbie Ford

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

David Cocke

No official can deny the right of any individual to vote because of error or omission.

J. Paul Getty

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

Claire Tomalin

I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did.

Samantha Power

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

Dylan Penn

I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.

Dick York

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

George MacDonald Fraser

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

Bob Murphrey

Leon and James hit some big shots ? they did what they are supposed to do.

Yvette Girouard

Leslie Klein hit her first home run in two years. She looks like she's back and she loves softball.

Curt Schilling

Seven of the 11 hits were on fastballs,

John Major

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

Jim Lushine

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

Dan Gandin

McArdle hit some big shots for us in that first half. He really kept us in the game.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Kathleen Clark

Let the voters know. If they don't like it, they can kick him out.

James Corden

Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Greg Owens

One of those things where it just kicks you in the teeth.

Tom Wopat

No, I kick Jim's (expletive). ... He's a terrific actor and wonderful singer, but I think that the musical stuff was maybe better served by me.

Kristy Curry

Obviously, I needed to kick and scream and yell tonight. If that's what it takes, that's how I'll be. I want to be all I can be for them.

Pat Croce

I feel like I got kicked in the stomach.

Neil Dougherty

When things are going well he's patting someone on the butt. And when they aren't going well, he is kicking them there.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Laurence Steinberg

Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.

Steve Mullins

Letting kids out of our schools who don't know how to read and write, it's always been morally indefensible and now it's economically indefensible as well.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

Jennifer Ebelhar

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

E. Hicks

Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.

Ned Yost

Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing.

Tim Giel

Last year, we had only six kids wrestle at the section tournament. This year, we have 11 kids entered.

Andy Coulombe

Last year when we came, we had some kids who went two-and-out, but this year every kid won a match.

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Larry Jones

Me and my wife are planning a 10-day vacation soon.

Kiefer Sutherland

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

Lyndon Johnson

One of every 16 planes was shot down,

Doug Wallace

No one should be able to say that they didn't know about this plan until two weeks ago.

Ray Richmond

My 17-year-old son is planning to see the 6:00 p.m. screening on Thursday in a suit and tie, ... He said he's planning to go to another screening immediately after...He wants to see the movie twice on the same night.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Mikhail Fradkov

On inflation, the president took note: things are bad.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dee Dee Myers

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Eleanor Clift

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Eliot Spitzer

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Elena Kagan

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Abdul Kalam

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Abraham Lincoln

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Marty Schottenheimer

Like a lot of their linebackers, you can get on them, but they won't stay blocked.

Joan Armatrading

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Isabel Allende

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.

Shai Agassi

No one has said that we will only stay in that area.

Earl Boykins

Whenever you lose, you're concerned. But we've got to stay confident.

Chris Frantz

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Barry Bonds

I did have it. It just didn't stay between the yellow lines,

Mitch Kapor

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Corey McKeon

Getting in their heads, it's key. For a team that has had success, you have to stay in their faces.

Joss Whedon

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

Patricia Bryant

She was there until the week before she died.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Michelle Wie

I didn't want to write anything on my scorecard until I made a birdie.

John Oates

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

Samuel L. Jackson

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Waite Hoyt

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.