Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Altman

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives.

Enya

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Erin McKean

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Joe Solmonese

Signs that Ford may have capitulated to right-wing extremist groups are deeply troubling.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Leonard Boswell

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Ehren Kruger

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Ryan Holmes

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.

Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits

Mohamed ElBaradei

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Aaron Patzer

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

Bill Bryson

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

Niklas Zennstrom

We were founded on Aug. 29, 2003, and now have 70 employees, about half in London and half in Tallinn, Estonia, and some in Luxembourg.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Abdul Kalam

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Adolf Hitler

Politics is history in the making.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Phil Fontaine

There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Mahmud Abbas

I'm never going to predict precisely when this is going to come to a conclusion. But I do think they have made a lot of progress.

Margot Robbie

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

John Cheever

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Charles Koch

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

Bill Jenkins

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

David Tudor

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

Athenaeus

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Charles Caleb Colton

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

Charles Caleb Colton

All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.

Charles Dickens

How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

Charles Stross

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Charles Stross

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Charles Stross

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

Charles Stanley

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.

David Guetta

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

David Deutsch

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

David Deutsch

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Bryan Shelton

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

Arnold Bennett

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Edwin Land

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Bill Nye

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

C. S. Lewis

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.