Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

E. O. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

Sean McAlinden

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

Debbie Ford

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Brian Armstrong

We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.

Carol Moseley Braun

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Cheryl Richardson

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

Charles M. Schulz

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

Richard Davis

Whether we like it or not the burden is placed back on the individual investor. The current model serves those interested, savvy investors.

Dennis Phillips

We're going to pay user fees for water and sewer and it's my understanding the burden of extension lines will be on the shoulders of the developers, not the city,

Robert Cooper

We're going to have to get the money somewhere, and you'll have to shift that burden from property tax to sales and income tax, but I think it can be done.

Lee Edwards

We know what Jon is capable of. What we were trying to do is take some of the burden off his shoulders.

Brian Barnhart

There are only five weekends after the Indy 500 that we aren't on the track. That puts the burden on the teams in terms of preparation, but it also provides much better storytelling from one week to the next on television.

Kathleen Blanco

We have no counts whatsoever, but we know many lives have been lost.

Nathan Parsons

I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We're expecting to go over and win the gold and defend the gold medal. Anything less would be disappointing for us. We know what we have to do. It's just a matter of doing it on the day when it counts the most.

Warren Harding

Season form is irrelevant when it comes to a grand final, it's who wants it the most on the day that counts in the end and my players know that.

Orison Swett Marden

What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

Michael Ignatieff

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Muhammad Ali

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Chris Burke

Nobody is more surprised than I am. At the same time, I've been in favorable counts and gotten good pitches.

Chad Clanton

The only poll that counts is on Election Day. Until then, Sen. Nelson's going to keep working hard for the people of Florida.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Sean Ross

When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion.

Kurt Vonnegut

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Beyonce Knowles

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

Audrey Hepburn

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Cheryl Strayed

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Scott Skiles

Well, the team he went to is struggling mightily, I would say.

Jeri Morin

We've got to get better at serving, because we are really struggling with that right now.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Jeff Kasko

We're struggling to get there. But we're still hopeful.

Bryant Young

We're struggling to get back to where we were years ago. It's a cycle.