Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Newman

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

Deena Burnett

He had been given a strong faith through his parents. As an adult, in his teen years and early college, he kind of got away from the church, and ended up going to St. John's University in Minnesota. Tom was very intellectual, enjoyed the discourse with monks, had a lot of questions, and I think the monks provided a great insight into the faith he had grown up with and somehow had been missing.

Naomi Wolf

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

P. J. O'Rourke

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

Bob Etheridge

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Anupam Kher

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

Virginia Woolf

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

William Shakespeare

These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable.

Wesley Clark

Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.

David Blunkett

Our first duty is to protect our people.

Sathya Baba

Remember, God is your guardian, when you sleep; when you are helpless; even when you have forgotten or neglected or discarded Him. He has no need you offer or promise to offer. He is ever content, ever blissful, ever full and ever free. Do your duty to yourself - that is enough offering for Him.

David Diaz

We need all the facts. It is our duty to look after the expenditures of money that comes from the people of Texas.

Charles Anson

I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do,

Ken Starr

I think it was proper what I did. I think I had a duty to do what I did.

Idi Amin

It is our duty not to squander opportunities for reconciliation, the time for reconciliation has long been here and we have squandered it,

David Mpanga

It is our duty not to let the state off the hook, and we will not concede to do without them.

Arlen Specter

I'd like the specifics in writing, focusing on why the people whose information was breached couldn't have been notified earlier. Those people are all at risk, and you have a duty to notify them at the earliest possible moment.

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Anne Mitchell

Parking limits handicap accessibility to your buses. This is especially true in Old Town.

Shinzo Abe

Surveys like this are also conducted by other countries. We should handle this calmly under international law.

Louis Hinnant

Surprised? Maybe. But not upset. This is the NCAA tournament. You don't get to hand pick where you go or who your opponent will be. For us, it's a privilege to be in Utah. It's a new experience.

Chad Campbell

Sure, it's going to be a long day, but I think it will be more mental than physical. We don't have to run around there tomorrow. So, while it's going to be tough walking around this course, we'll handle it.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Dick Bennett

Stanford used their inside people well. The big kid, we were simply unable to handle him.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Jose Vicente

Some low-ranking officers were passing information to the Pentagon . . . handing over secrets of the state.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

Eric Schaefer

There was always a lecturer during the shows named Elliott Forbes, but since there were 15-20 of these road shows going on, there were 15 or 20 Elliott Forbes. It was really a multimedia experience.

Maggie Carey

In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Abdul Kalam

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Hermann Havermann

There are only 100-million Web pages right now in Arabic, and that's nothing. It's only 0.2 percent of the total worldwide.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Alec Baldwin

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Abigail Adams

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Don Winslow

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Sergio Aragones

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond,

Joel Bruckenstein

I'd like to see him have more pure value exposure,

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Jeff Corbett

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.

Doug Green

We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.

Mary Tyler Moore

I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Tsuneo Watanabe

Imagine, a 32-year-old youngster teaching an 80-year-old something. Do I want him to come to the Giants? Yes, I want him. I want him to be our manager.

Charles Kettering

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time...

Charles Darwin

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Charles Babbage

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Tyler Perry

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

Tom Epstein

We want to wrap this up by the end of the month.

Monica Johnson

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.

David Levithan

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

Ken Hitchcock

We can't get all wrapped up in what's going on,

Patti LaBelle

They were wrapped up in blankets. They couldn't clap.

Mayor Goulbourne

It should all be wrapped up by week's end.

Jim Gaffigan

You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.

Keith Kameg

This could have been wrapped up that night.