Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

David Allen

There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Louise Bourgeois

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

Mike Wilson

The one thing you know with Rico is he's going to work hard. He's going to do everything in his power to get better. He loves football. He kind of fell (into) track.

Lewis B. Hershey

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

James Hoffa

We have a strategy to train workers to rebuild their communities, ... We must learn from this tragedy and help these workers start over. We must help our fellow Americans build new communities and new lives.

Bill Frist

We have no higher responsibility to our fellow Americans than protecting the homeland. Our lives, our freedoms, our liberties are at stake.

John Eisenhower

When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

Tom Greene

When it comes down to a last second shot, anything can happen. After the free throw, our assignments fell through and weren't executed properly.

Ron Howard

We're getting there, but we thought we were on track before and we fell off. We're just trying to come out and get better in practice every day and then come out and play every game like we've got something to prove.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

John Owens

Since we're not making money, I think there is skepticism that is out there and it is legitimate skepticism.

Danny White

We still have a legitimate shot at going to the playoffs if we can get on a little run. Two teams will go to the playoffs from our division, so we still have a shot.

Diane Rodriguez

You don't pay money to get money. Those aren't legitimate scholarships.

Paul Ballew

There is legitimate pressure on some utility categories.

Scott Weiss

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

Bob Martinez

But we told Mike we're not going to back off on what we see as our legitimate role as a party.

Matt White

I don't condone the use of EPO, but it does have a legitimate use in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Ghassan Khatib

He is pursuing a unilateral approach, which is not constructive, and he wants peace that is incompatible with our legitimate rights and with international legality,

M. Powell

I think it's a very legitimate issue, but I think it's way down on the priority list.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Charles Spurgeon

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Peter Edwards

The other, the Klingensmith's cat, he'd shot and buried,

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Joevan Catron

We started off really sluggish. That shot got us going and started us rolling.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

Mariusz Czerkawski

We have to get more traffic, simple plays, with more pucks on the net. Simple shots can work sometimes.

Dick Davey

We're making shots and that's something that we haven't been able to do this year.

Ned Yost

We're going to give this a shot, and a shot is not one day.

Keegan Bradley

Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Mike White

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

Tristan Bernard

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Jeffrey Rea

I was real surprised to see him out there.

Michael Moskow

I was surprised they wanted to talk about education.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.