Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

Alfred North Whitehead

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Aldo Leopold

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

Aldous Huxley

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Jim Calhoun

We dodged a bullet. We had new life. We needed an adrenaline shot and we got it.

We do both impressions. We attend many reenactments as Federal (soldiers). It's just part of the hobby and required by our unit. Attending an event as a Yankee adds to the experience by allowing you to appreciate the differences, but know that on a common soldiers level there were little differences.

We do believe we can go on a run. We feel like the Georgia Tech game is going to be really important for us in sustaining that. The win at Virginia can be a great start to that run if we can continue to take advantage of the momentum we have, at Georgia Tech. In essence, though, coming home and playing all but two games at home in the month of February is huge for us. We've built character and we're on solid ground. We feel like we have as much confidence as we've ever had.

We do a lot of R&D now in Russia, in Moscow, St. Petersburg and elsewhere. There are strong math and science skills and a long history of advanced science.

We do a lot of business with Microsoft, we talk to them all the time, we do advance disclosures and all that, but there's no specific contract negotiation right now,

We do advise the court she does understand the seriousness of the offense. I just hate to see this young woman go off to the penitentiary.

We do address as much as we know.

We would like to begin to whittle away at lead time. Long lead times just add cost to the entire supply chain. Short lead times reduce cost. It's real simple.

We would leave the station around 4 each afternoon, and Mike would always have a feast prepared in the production truck. Gumbo, shrimp po-boys, mufalettas and -- I guess it's OK to admit this now -- plenty of cold beer.

Donald Rumsfeld

We would intend to have forces in place to see that advantage was not taken of any temporary disorder that could conceivably occur in the conflict,

We would hope that the United States would become engaged again as soon as possible so that we jointly address this real problem.

Michael Reagan

We want to complement development in the region. The University's designation as one of the country's most entrepreneurial campuses suggests to us a portion of the additional property should be considered for business and research innovation opportunities that involve interactions between the University and the local community.

We were all impressed with how Judge Frost described our country as a nation of immigrants, no longer a melting pot where assimilation is the goal, but a great mosaic where each culture adds its uniqueness to make the whole better.

We were a little sluggish in the beginning. But we started the five seniors (it was senior night at Union). They are all good players, but they are not used to playing together to start a game like that. We started in a zone defense. Heck, everyone who watches us knows we don?t do that a whole lot. But I thought we made some adjustments. Offensively we started to attack some more. I thought they adjusted well to the game.

We were a little nervous coming in. We wanted to let the adrenaline in the first few minutes just play out, let it go, and then we wanted our game to take over.

We were a little more athletic than they were, and we just tried to take advantage of it. That (athleticism) gave us some easy baskets, and we were kind of struggling in our offensive sets.

Mike Woodson

We were aggressive tonight. When we got into the paint, we took advantage of it. We attempted 49 free throws, that's a season-high for us.

We were advised that we should wait until after the final report comes back,

David Crane

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

We were advised by officials on the ground to take the matter into our own hands.

We were addressing many of the issues as they were looking at the same issues.

We were able to take advantage of their expertise and experience in other states over the years. They helped us write better regulations. They were very concerned about their image.

Kevin Quinn

We were able to take advantage of the fact that Brattleboro was not at full strength today,

Michael Vick

We were able to take advantage of some things and some looks that we couldn't do last year down in Philadelphia in the cold, being a one-sided football team,

We were able to take advantage of some of their mistakes and gets some big hits when we needed them.

Dana Perino

We were able to provide some additional information to give them a greater understanding of how this program is tailored and structured. Full details have been reserved for the appropriate members of Congress.