Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Onfray

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Stewart Newnham

The pound's strength is tightening monetary conditions in the U.K., but it's not enough.

Taro Saito

The possibility is high that an improvement in labor and wage conditions will continue to support consumer spending going forward.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to about what we saw in 2002.

Julie Gerberding

We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters,

Chris Stanton

We are looking into whether Martha Stewart violated the conditions of her release,

Piero Fassino

There are conditions to create a government and to govern, even if the country is divided in two.

Kevin Stephens

There are some conditions we just can't handle here. Like dialysis. We can't do that, and they'll be here three or four days, so they'll need it before then.

James Allen

Where there are difficulties to cope with, and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue most flourishes and manifests its glory.

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Joy Bacon

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

Sharon Shinn

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

Ken Fields

We have signed contracts with several counties and that's a step that's required.

Tom Adams

Signing one of those (long-term) contracts is extremely pessimistic. What they're offering is peace of mind at a huge premium.

William Hecht

The prospect of favorable new energy contracts for PPL as existing long-term contracts expire, in conjunction with sharp increases in forward wholesale energy prices over the past six months, led us to increase our long-term earnings forecast.

Tom Wychor

To gut our contracts when you don't know what the future fleet plan is going to be is irresponsible.

Jim Caswell

One of the reasons that they feel like they can reduce the exclusive-use contracts . . . is that they've got higher-speed, more mobile and larger-capacity payloads in the contract stream now.

Gary Bettman

My feeling is contracts should always be honored,

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.

Vince Carter

We want to play team defense, regardless (of what Iverson does). A.I. can get his points. The priority is to win the game.

Gary Thomas

When we got priority through downtown, it pushed us into a comfortable ranking.

Diane Nelson

We're going to help DC feel like more of an important priority in Warner Bros.

Ajay Kumar

Security of Salem will be our top priority when he comes to Delhi.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Mike Claffey

We've taken that on because it's a priority for safety reasons.

Todd Solondz

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

Dick Gephardt

I think the priority has to be Social Security and Medicare,

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.