Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Elderfield

We also took images of what we already owned so he could see them in context with his collection, ... It was a great couple of days. He had really thought about things.

Donna Wing

You don't know who you will see from one room to the next. You may have someone come in and interrupt and take things off-track. There's the element of surprise: You know you will be seeing ghosts, but you don't know in what context you will see them.

Ravi Zacharias

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

Stefano Tonchi

While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.

Walter Martin

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

Hubert Burda

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.

Wynton Marsalis

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Samantha Power

On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

Carl Honore

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

Kate Delhagen

The ongoing dot.com market correction is far from having a negative effect on online retailing as a whole. It has actually led online retailers to renew their focus on customer service, cost reduction and profitability.

Tony Russa

We have to get (Juan) going. I think (hitting coach) Hal (McRae) sees the correction that he needs to make.

John Reade

We had a very good run. You have a pullback and correction at some stage and we are in a process to do that at the moment.

Jeffrey Silber

Last year there was a lot of noise in the sector. But on a positive note, you've seen a correction in the group.

Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Charles Francis Richter

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

Chip Hanlon

We're likely to see a sharp and meaningful correction that lasts a few months.

David Shulman

My sense is the next correction will be serious.

Richard Boucher

one would expect more than the kind of correction we've seen so far.

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

M. Night Shyamalan

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Dennis Brown

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Ed Droste

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

Nick Miller

We have to get everybody on the same page. Everybody had their own definition of what is appropriate and inappropriate.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

bell hooks

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

Cheryl Strayed

You get to define the terms of your life.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.