Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Claybrook

Overall, this measure is insufficient because it focuses on disclosing corruption, rather than deterring it.

Source Unknown

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Jacques Chirac

It is a measure of protection and precaution,

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Mark Twain

He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits

Benjamin Disraeli

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Atharva Veda

May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.

Ben Affleck

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

Jean Giraudoux

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

M. Wolfe

we should note that there will never be merit raises.

Claude Monet

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Stephen Jay Gould

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Dumarsais Simeus

In all that I have done, I have always been successful. I'm a perpetual winner, and I will win these elections.

Chris Eigeman

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.

Georges Danton

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

Georges Braque

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Rick Springfield

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.