Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

James Thompson

Unprecedented natural gas prices are causing the price increase.

Jon Huntsman

We have resources, yet, were dealing with imported oil prices that are causing pump prices to go through the roof.

Jeb Bush

There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans,

Jim Pringle

Last year was particularly mild. This year is closer to normal snowfall. I wouldn't be overly concerned with the late spring snowmelt causing flooding.

Frank Keating

severely compromised, causing undue hardship on livestock owners.

John Humphrys

So he was let out, went to Houston and started causing problems there.

O. J. Simpson

So, it may be that SARS is causing a slightly different or a slightly less severe form of illness at this point.

Wanda Jackson

So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.

Paul Curlander

What we have seen is less than expected end-user demand. We don't know what is causing it. If I were to guess, I would put weak sales of (Lexmark-branded printers) on top.

Mohammed Aldouri

We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons.

Dan Gilmore

While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a significant impact on how logistics cost performance is viewed. For example, those companies using logistics costs as a percent of sales as their primary measure and who operate in industries such as chemicals and other commodities saw that cost ratio fall in 2005 due to strong upward pricing power that impacted the top line, even though logistics costs also rose. Other industries had rising logistics costs with flat or declining prices for their products, driving up logistics costs as a percent of sales.

Peter Smith

Union Pacific's exposure to the chemical industry is the highest of all the rails, so it had the most to lose from Hurricane Rita.

Kenichi Fukui

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

Kenichi Fukui

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.

Eduard Buchner

As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.

Bernie Siegel

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Robert Goodman

Since there are so many different environments in the soil, the likelihood of finding different organisms and different chemistries is high. The world is full of microorganisms that have learned, chemically, how to get along, how to communicate with, how to influence other animals. It might turn out that they're making chemical molecules that turn out to be useful to people.

Andrew Olaharski

We really don't know if human consumption of that chemical is dangerous per se, so it's premature to say. We don't move on taking it out of the food stores yet. Further studies are necessary to identify the ultimate outcomes.

Reid Hoffman

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

Nancy Mathis

We've seen an explosion of this scam this year.

Adrian Peterson

I'll get out and do Pilates. I'll get in the ring and do some rounds of kickboxing and grappling and MMA conditioning. There's a lot of unique stuff that I do, too, that a lot of people wouldn't imagine or think about doing, like box jumps. You get a 42-inch box and dumbbells and practice working on your explosion jumping up on those boxes.

Mukesh Ambani

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

Mohammad Ali

I had just opened my shop when there was a big bang. I fell on the ground and the roof fell on me. Then I heard another explosion and I was struck in the head.

Charles Grassley

If (Boeing) knew these things presumably 10 years ago or even before that, perhaps the TWA 800 explosion would never have taken place and there would not have been 230 lives lost,

Haraldur Sigurdsson

The explosion wiped out the language. That's how big it was. But we're trying to get these people to speak again, by digging.

Nazir Ahmed

The explosion was massive and there are a large number of casualties. I saw a lot of injured people on the road crying. I don't know about the fatalities.

Lee Kreindler

The explosion followed the path of least resistance.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

Allan Cunningham

Wha the deil hae we got for a king, / But a wee, wee German lairdie!

Lao Tzu

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

Klaus Schulze

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Douglas Sirk

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Klaus Fuchs

I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Billy Connolly

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

Dr. Paulos

No brace is perfect. No brace can prevent every injury, but they do help.

Amartya Sen

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Marianne Williamson

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Harold Schaitberger

There's a breakdown. We've got firefighters still trapped in New Orleans.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.