Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Russell Schweiss

Scripps serves as a prime example that it should not be assumed that when a biotech institute expands, they are planning on duplicating the research they are currently conducting at existing facilities.

Ron Nargang

Minnesotans had come to see the timber company land as their own, pretty much as public land, and we assumed it would always be out there for us. Now, it's getting sold off and developed. This has kind of caught us by surprise.

Charlton Heston

One of my first memories of my dad during that shoot was him coming home from the Coliseum set after filming the chariot race, and I assumed he was a professional chariot racer at that point, ... He'd bring me home sand from the massive arena.

Evelyn Glennie

Of course, I just assumed that the world was full of solo percussionists. It was only when I studied music full time, in London, that I realized that the career of a full-time classical percussionist did not in fact exist. It had to be created.

Ben Bernanke

One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.

Jack Schwartz

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

Robin Yount

Ned has been trying to get me back for quite a few years and the time just hasn't been right for me personally. I've been trying to get the family out of the house and get the kids grown up and move on. I always assumed I would go back one day to Milwaukee in some capacity, and I was very fortunate that the time to come back is now with these really talented young players that we have and hopefully get to watch their progress.

George Robertson

NATO nations have assumed their collective responsibilities toward Turkey, a nation at the moment under threat.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Britney Spears

Look, there's another kid hiding from his parents,

Tom Bailey

I have a problem with the idea of putting something in the paper that makes us a part of hiding something from the parents.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

Abraham Torres

I don't know what they are hiding. Maybe they are not hiding anything, but the way they are going about this makes it look like they are.

Pat Robertson

We were sort of hiding the congressmen. They wouldn't let Dick Armey and people like that get on the platform.

David Duchovny

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

Dido Armstrong

Inside everybody's hiding something.

Brit Marling

If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

Dan Rohn

He looked for me for two hours. I was hiding under desks, in the shower, the bathroom. He couldn't find me.

Marcelo Porto

Many are saying that it is the end of their liquidity. But I think they will stay for a while, because there are too many derivatives linked to the receipts.

Shyla Nelson

So in that sense, it's a story that really is vitally linked to a staged situation.

Gen. Hermogenes

It is presumed that they have already linked up.

Mike Williams

I think we're always going to be linked together,

John McGahern

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

Bret Harte

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Charles Clark

I think it would be very, very surprising if they weren't linked in some way,

Jason Miller

1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn.

Eddie Jones

There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

David Harsanyi

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

Charles Eastman

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Prince Abdullah

no shame, no humanity, no morals and no principles.

Erica Mann Jong

Your morals are like roads through the Alps. They make these hairpin turns all the time.

Clifford Longley

The Ely Experience: 'Private Morals and Public Truth'

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Douglas Alexander

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

Sunil Mittal

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Farooq Abdullah

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

David Cross

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

A great politician has great charisma.

James Zogby

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.