Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Short

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

M. Thompson

The PAS system is perfect for anyone who abhors prospecting, selling, and closing deals. When you use PAS, you never have to cold-call strangers or attend boring sales meetings. Their expert staff does it all for you.

Michael Shermer

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

J. M. Coetzee

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

John Wycliffe

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.

Thomas Buxton

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength

Isaiah Thomas

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

Isaiah Thomas

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Isaiah Thomas

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Robin Roberts

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

Robin Roberts

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

Major Taylor

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

Brandi Chastain

Like anything else, you have to pay your dues and create a positive environment for people to want to come out and be a part of it.

Kit Williams

Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was an expert on differentials and made thousands of drawings of gears in his lifetime, largely for military purposes.

Kit Williams

Legend has it that the original South Pointing Chariot was built in China three to four thousand years ago for the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di.

Richard P. Feynman

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

Dirk Bauermann

Man, he really took over that fourth quarter. His energy was tremendous. That helped us to the win.

Viktor Khristenko

Major projects lead to a variety of reactions in the beginning, but once they are launched the reactions become positive. Infrastructure is a key part of energy security.

R. Robinson

Luckily, we grossly underestimated the money and energy required to refurbish the home and surroundings. With more wisdom, we might have passed!

Danny Grieves

Luther plays with so much energy and he's tenacious on his rebounding. Luther's not a great leaper, but he's a quick leaper.

Helene Lagerberg

Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you

Dan Colen

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Jorge Zamacona

Lee has exploded. He's exactly the energy the ensemble needed.

Sathya Baba

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Italo Calvino

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Steve Osburn

Mr. Rader does not see himself as a monster, ... He sees himself as a human being with a monster inside of him.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Granth Sahib

My Lord and Master Himself has saved me completely; I am comforted by meditating on the Lord.

David Overstreet

I can tell him that if he messes up on a play, he can't hold it; he can't think about it. Being a DB, you have to have a short memory because the next play you may come in and get an interception or something. He can't hold that stuff to himself because if he does, it's going to have a snowball effect.

Tony Kelly

getting himself in some trouble! He was gangster!

Lance Reynolds

If a guy's a stud, then he's a stud when he comes home, provided he has enough time to get himself back in shape.

Martha Miles

I was so proud when I saw that. I thought, 'That's how it should be.' That kid the rest of his life will kick himself because he didn't make it.

Sam Altman

Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.

Dave Laird

Mitchell just keeps getting better and better and better. Two months ago that kid would've pinned him.

Jennifer Ring

(Nelson) keeps saying things are required by HAVA that are not.

James Callis

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

Donald Brashear

Maybe next time. If he keeps playing like that, maybe it will be worse.

Joel Madden

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

Michael Groves

When he keeps his shoulder down, he has a lot of pop. It's a matter of him remaining patient.

Todd Hays

If Brock keeps pushing the way he has, we're going to be just fine.

Charlie Bewley

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Marc Lipsitch

If a single introduction of a pandemic-capable strain is likely to happen, then multiple introductions are also likely.

Sam Hodder

If we don't take this opportunity, it's very likely that we won't get another chance.

Randy Messenger

If we're playing well, they may not make many moves. If they're not playing great, they likely will make some moves. I feel like they are going to play great.

Jerry Jones

I feel that we'll likely have a deal.

Sam Stovall

If they don't do it tomorrow, they will likely do it in January.

David Martin

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effectson fibromyalgia, ... Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia - where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief - it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

Richard P. Feynman

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Ian Mckellen

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Toshihiko Fukui

Second-quarter GDP was revised upwards, representing the well-balanced nature of the recovery in Japan's economy,

J. Taylor

Now, we're going to look at see what was the nature of the service disruption.

Edgar Allan Poe

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Steve Lemke

Now we're taking what we had and putting it on steroids,

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

Luis Sojo

If they don't come to practice, they don't want to be on the team. This isn't about individualism, it's about putting together a team that can represent us with honor.

Rajeev Shukla

I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

Tyler Oakley

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

Eric Ripert

We are putting in a lot of fabrics.

Shawn Oubre

We are putting all our resources into getting the repairs made.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Cully Donovan

We worked a lot on situations like that this year. They responded well.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

Edward Abbey

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

Deepak Chopra

Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

Deepak Chopra

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Walter Benjamin

I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

Alan Cooper

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Al Purdy

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

David Suzuki

Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

Bryan Stevenson

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone,

Catherine Fisher

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.