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.

Amber Magner

We lack experience. We don't have the leadership to make the right decisions at the right times.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Chris Taylor

We were in every game, except for Grand Rapids, and I really think we played well enough that we should have gotten a lot more points. We need to be better finishing the game. It's disappointing that we keep letting points slip by us.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Alan Ball

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Tom Burns

We knew they had concerns, ... I?m happy we?re down to one issue.

Doyle Geddes

Ultimately, we were very happy with the second half.

Byron Katie

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Buddy Valastro

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

James Touchton

The only reason I can think of is that the students are happy with the job we have done.

Cindy Cohn

We are pretty happy with the tenor of the questions asked.

Ben Gunn

We've all been training since October and this (state title) was what we were all going for. I'm just so happy to be a part of this team.

O. Henry

We usually struggle to go through but I think we are all happy about qualifying. Other teams are struggling to go through -- and we have been there -- but we are in the last 16 now and it's a nice thing to already be through.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

George Hecht

We value this historic property so much and we don't want to tear up more of it than we have to.

Ken Mehlman

We are at a very historic moment in terms of the party, but also our community.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Benjamin Franklin

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Cassie Steele

I like mythology - anything historical.

Michael Brown

Having a moon is just inherently cool, and is something that most self-respecting planets have.

Esme Bianco

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Srikumar Rao

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Park Chan-wook

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

Joe Laszlo

E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

James Gray

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Peter Beck

The very nature of sweeping reforms would be inherently destabilizing to the regime. So it's more likely they would be halting reforms.

Chris Bohjalian

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

David Cross

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

Doug Arthur

We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now.

Bertrand Russell

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Paul Maurice

The only negative was that we didn't score on the power play.

Abdul Kalam

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Barbara Corcoran

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

Koichi Ogawa

Fundamentally, there's nothing negative you can point to with Toyota.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Chris Daly

What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,

Matt LeBlanc

We've talked about it within the team and we've dubbed it the 'Reverse the Record' season.

Otis Smith

We've talked about it. It's still a ways away. It's 50-50.

Jim Marchiony

We've talked about it, but there's not been a decision.

Ray Durham

We've talked about it, but I'll let them decide. I'd be all for it, that's for sure.

Jenn Giel

She talked more around him, responded more to him.

David Akers

I can't say we haven't talked about that,'' Reid said,

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

John Matessino

I talked to them. They said it's just not true.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Tom Nolan

Winner never understood how that was a factor. It was always very alarming.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.