Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Gallagher

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Jennifer Grant

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

Jon Nadler

We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.

John F. Kerry

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

Margaret Mitchell

There are proposals where there is little or no evidence available from the executive to support the assertion that the reforms proposed will safeguard the interests of children and support stable families.

Dave Borison

Firmware upgradeability is an outrageous assertion to be made at this point.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

bell hooks

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

Stuart Taylor

The fact of the matter is very few appellate judges have had reason to rule on huge executive power issues, so the track record is not that informative.

Bob Ferguson

Ultimately, we want to have the executive back in the people's building.

Dick Wolf

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

Khloe Kardashian

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Lesli Linka Glatter

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

Kenneth Edmonds

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Tom Courtney

She's not the first very strong executive to leave a dot.com that's had its stock go down.

Robert Reich

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Marc Johnson

Portals still play an important role. But there is truth to the idea that their importance may have been overblown.

Patricia Johnson

Nobody of importance has spoken to me yet. It's not Virginia. She was nice and respectful. Her staff was rude, disrespectfulall we wanted was some information to keep us calm.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

H. Hunt

If we can take anything away from this, it's that we recognize the importance of flood-control projects that we don't necessarily think about every day.

Robert Connor

We're stressing the importance of the public taking CPR classes,

Carol P. Christ

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Pat Gelsinger

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

David Kim

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

Janna Levin

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

Edmund Burke

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

Barbara Kruger

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Catherynne M. Valente

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Steve Crump

What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards.

Blythe Danner

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Jim Coleman

We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time.

Rep. Schultheis

We're here to represent our constituents, and there's no question they want this bill.

Meggie Ford

This question may as well be in Chinese.

Tom Jr.

With the wind blowing, (and) shooting 2 under here, you've got to be happy, there's no question about that.

Richard Jaffe

There is no question the stores are prepped and warned.

Phillip Fulmer

There is no question that we're not where we need to be on offense. But I think we can get there.

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Robert Rennie

I'd be surprised if the BOJ raises rates at all this year and that is something that will tend to see the yen underperforming.

Alan Dershowitz

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Anne McCaffrey

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

Guenther Hujara

Bode raises the question, but there is not a question.

James Hillman

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

Soleil Moon Frye

We can all become activists and raise questions.

Ze Frank

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

Dave Schroeder

Just retract your letter, and then we'll talk.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Clint Hurdle

We've seen him play short and how he can play there. We want to keep getting a feel for him at second base.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Jandy Nelson

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Jan de Bont

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.