Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Malebranche

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Thomas Jefferson

Sir,- I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with

Alan Hawkins

Most parents are agreeable but some aren't because they don't have transportation or they have problems with scheduling baby sitters.

Jehan Perera

If a compromise can be reached for a mutually agreeable venue for talks, that will be decisive in the level of violence.

Jane Austen

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

Dalai Lama

We need political solution, that the best way is genuine self rule. That I feel (is) mutually agreeable solution,

Winston Churchill

It is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive

Duke Ellington

Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Steve Bailey

We're making a request to the DA to return the medicine to those authorized to possess it.

Jim Taylor

The people of New Orleans need to get back to at least the level of hurricane protection we had before Katrina. We were authorized to do that, and do it quickly. It's up to Congress to decide to take it to a higher level.

Abdel Alani

There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge and we don't know who authorized them.

Chuck Smith

Mike King knew Peg Collier, whatever she sent in, would get beaten down. Mike King knew there was going to be kicking, fighting and screaming before (the bill) got to the entity authorized to pay.

Toni Atkins

I think the City Council authorized the manager to do this and that this is the right way to go, ... We need someone to represent the interests of the city with expertise on such issues.

Bob Ross

We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.

Jim Pollard

What I'm authorized to say now is we expect the death toll to be higher than anything we've ever seen before.

Yan Xiaohong

To curb the use of pirated common software, we have urged the computer producers to load authorized software before they are sold on the Chinese market.

Virginia Kice

We have to be able to prove the employer knowingly hired someone who is not authorized to work.

John Bolton

We strongly support the commission's investigative efforts. We expect the government of Syria to comply with these requests fully and unconditionally as the Security Council resolutions require.

Steve North

We want to make the variance procedure one that is easy to comply with.

Javier Solana

Milosevic must comply with all his commitments to NATO,

Laura Brown

We didn't want to make exemptions for this because we wanted people to comply with the law.

Patricia Friend

If a passenger demonstrates an unwillingness to comply with our request for them to obey the rules before we even take off, then we know that we are potentially going to have difficulty with that person through the entire flight.

Orrin Hatch

I think the president ought to comply and help here.

Ghazi Hamad

If the international organization controlled the process of transferring money, then our economy will comply with their policies, and this would be a serious matter.

Luis Suarez

He was removed from the national team because he didn't comply with some rules that are followed around here.

Jonathan Todd

It is now one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed that Microsoft had to comply with the remedies imposed by the March 2004 decision.

Ann Crowley

We want the police to stay downtown, ... I do not favor their moving.

Kenneth James

We want to set a standard rate. And five out of the six departments were in favor of this.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

David Nail

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

Dave Cottle

We're in favor of winning some this year.

Marisa Miller

One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch.

Noah Gray-Cabey

I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

David Dreman

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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.

Ashley Judd

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

John McLaren

I was just trying to prevent someone else from getting thrown out. It turns out I got thrown out.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.

Mr Bush

Terrorists and killers are not going to prevent me from going to Pakistan.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Kelly Downard

I think the recommendation will probably be received favorably. We don't have one.

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

Giselle Davies

Nothing is back yet. The IOC has not received the results.

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Ben Harper

I refuse to make uninspired music.

Zab Judah

Just don't trash-talk then refuse to sign a contract, ... That's disrespectful.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Don Moreland

I thought Walker just stepped up and (turned on his game) in the second half, just refuse to lose.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Dallas Drake

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.

Denis Leary

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nuture.

Donald Glover

I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Chris Linsley

We're so thankful that we've been able to have what's a speedy recovery.

Brian Tracy

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

Hideo Kojima

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

Babette March

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Liam Hemsworth

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

Carol Windley

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Mark Sheppard

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Thomas Schaaf

We haven't written off the title. If they stumble, we will go after our chance.

Heather Mills

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.