Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilhelm Leibniz

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

Joel Staff

We have a number of new products rolling out. Some of them are contingent on what happens to natural gas prices.

Judith Butler

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Ron Hirst

We'll see how it goes, how it feels. It's all contingent on my recovery.

Aaron Zapata

There are many sellers who have contingent offers on properties that they're having to withdraw because they're not getting their homes sold.

Kym Hougham

We're talking to the tour now to find out our options. A lot depends on who has tour membership. But we know the foreign contingent will be a lot bigger.

Gottfried Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Gene Brockman

Our contribution could be contingent on what they (the fire district) decide to do.

Barry Axelrod

I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent discussions.

Dane Bradshaw

We've all just learned so much from (Pearl), and we're a reflection of him on the court. He's working just as hard as we are on the sidelines, and we're just very fortunate to have him as well as the rest of his staff. It really has become a perfect fit, and I'm very happy for the seniors that they're able to have this success under him in their last year.

Avery Johnson

We struggled to guard Yao in the first half, but we made some adjustments and were much more physical in the second half. We were fortunate enough to hold him down then.

Geno Auriemma

We're incredibly fortunate (to still be playing), and we're going to make the most of it.

Michael Mann

When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love.

Nick Zito

We're going to see where we're at on March 4. The unfortunate thing is we might not see what we want to see, and the fortunate thing is at least it ain't May 4.

Antawn Jamison

When we first left, I think the most important thing was to come back and play well, like, 'You should have kept me around,' or 'You should have re-signed me. After that, it's just a point where you want to win, and we were fortunate enough to get the win, but also play pretty good games individually.

Bruce Benson

We're fortunate to have two people like that,

Tim Poole

We're fortunate to have two horses in the race and we hope they live up to their billing.

Jacque Bartow

We're fortunate to have so much depth. We wanted to rest some of the varsity kids and let the JV girls show what they could do.

Patrick Moynihan

We're going to send to the Senate not only the first lady of the land, but she will be the first lady of New York,

Rick Vymlatil

Years ago at this fair, I had a promoter tell me he could get me a young lady named Reba McEntire. I could've got her for $5,000, but we wanted big names that year, so we passed.

Sherri Shepherd

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Steve Pierce

She is a wonderful lady and is doing everything she can to make things happen.

Laurence Glasco

She was a remarkable lady in her own right.

Carine Roitfeld

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Ben Mendelsohn

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.

Nick Park

I think it's because Lady Tottington and Victor are aristocrats,

John Wilson

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.

Madison Smartt Bell

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.

Erik Cole

We've had some quality acquisitions. I think, in time, everybody's going to mesh together.

Joe Tiller

As a coach, it takes time to mesh with the rest of the staff and the players. It will take some time, but the players are starting to understand what he expects.

Carlo Facchino

Everyone is starting to mesh together and row as one.

Caspar David Friedrich

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

Arnold Palmer

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.

Rob Mileski

He reminded me today of the Willis Reed thing.

Steve Pleau

Reed will report to Peoria on Thursday. He won't play in the opener; he won't play this weekend. We're going to get him in here, let him adjust, see where he's at mentally.

Jonathan Swift

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

Frank Herbert

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

John Kenneth Galbraith

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

William Watson

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

Robert A. Heinlein

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.