Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

John Cholakis

We want to see what his line of reasoning was and if it's a valid argument, then perhaps the dollar sells off. If his comments are not as dovish as people might fear, the dollar might rally.

David McCullough

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams

Steve Hall

The Peripheral Canal automatically throws you into a heated argument that doesn't solve the problem.

William Gray

The people who have a bias in favor of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so. These are natural cycles.

Jack Straw

We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution,

Kevin McClatchy

There are certain players who I think haven't progressed, and we need those players to grow. Put on top of that that we have a slew of young players coming into this thing, and I think Dave just wanted to make the decision to get the best person we can to help these guys continue to develop and evolve. Some can make the argument we didn't do that this year.

Bruce Arena

When we demonstrate ratings, we will have an argument for prime time.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Nicholas Burns

We strongly regret the measures taken by the parliament and government today to, in effect, introduce a state of emergency and to introduce censorship of the Albanian press.

Bahman Ghobadi

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

Tom Ford

One of the most important lessons everyone can take from 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' whether they support the war in Iraq, oppose the war or are undecided, is that we need less censorship in this country, not more.

Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Anthony Mizzi

Censorship is imposing on others to live as one wishes to live.

Ann Cooper

Censorship in China is nothing new, but the growing co-operation of U.S. technology companies in China's repressive policies is.

Dan Gillmor

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

Richard King

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

Kurt Opsahl

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Spurgeon

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Dave Gorman

If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.

Bryan Adams

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

Cary Grant

...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

C. Thomas Howell

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

Catherynne M. Valente

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

Catherynne M. Valente

Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

William Shakespeare

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Gary LaGrange

The outcome is not good. Yesterday, I thought the damage could have been worse; but today, I'm not so sure.

Li Bingbing

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted.

Cherrie Moraga

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

Bill Vaughan

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Tasnim Aslam

When they turn into violent acts, we also damage our image.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Charles Spurgeon

The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly.

Charles Spurgeon

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

Charles Spurgeon

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Alan Watts

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Alan Moore

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Alan Chambers

My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Bertrand Russell

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Carlos Castaneda

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

Bing Gordon

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Todd Simmons

Through open source software, you can dramatically speed up the level of innovation.

Ai Weiwei

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Azealia Banks

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Ryan Jacob

Three years ago, nobody took the Internet seriously. We're in it for the long term.

Jenny Emanuel

We want to make sure the Internet is secure.

Margot Robbie

There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!

Aristotle

We are what we reblog.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Evangeline Lilly

Money is the longest route to happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Frank Vargo

We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.

Cass Sunstein

Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.

Albert Einstein

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

Chris Matthews

I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

Chris Hayes

Everyone is now [Donald] Trump.

Carly Fiorina

Donald Trump is a serial philanderer, by his own admission.

Jim Cramer

They don't take eyeballs at the bank. Those who value stocks by eyeballs should go be ophthalmologists, not stock analysts. There is no cyberworld where reach trumps profits.

John Neff

Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

Ted Nugent

Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

William Shakespeare

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn