Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

Michael Ondaatje

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

Pankaj Mishra

The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

Lauryn Hill

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Nick Zinner

I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

John Schuerholz

The greatest analogy of what we did was we altered our roster in midstream, which was like changing the tires on a bus going 60 miles an hour down.

The increase in unemployment and the lack of job creation has dramatically altered the beneficial dynamic that prevailed in the latter half of the 1990s, when tight labor markets and faster productivity growth fueled broad-based wage gains.

Sunil Gavaskar

The Indian selectors could do well to follow the West Indian policy and alternate tournaments for Javagal Srinath. This way he will be able to keep in touch with international cricket and also keep his zest and energy for Test cricket.

alter or steal critical corporate or private data.

Alternate heating sources seems to be a hot item this year.

James Frey

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

The key here is probably, and that's where we're hoping the judge will rule in our favor, alteration does not mean replacement of the design.

The key here is capturing reality and not creating or altering reality.

Debbie Reynolds

The UK's disease-free status for avian flu is not altered here. We've got an avian flu in quarantine. All of the birds that come in from outside of the European Union come into quarantine and we picked up the avian flu virus in the UK quarantine system.

Peter Drucker

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

Denial of service attacks occur periodically, but they are not as common as people trying to hack into a site, since hacking in enables you to alter the site's content and post something for everyone to see.

A number of the officers present in the meeting realized that the affidavits that they had prepared independently were not consistent and they took the affidavits back, changed them to make them consistent and then submitted the altered affidavits as original affidavits. At that point it became clear that there was something very seriously amiss.

Any time people are displaced, you lose a lot of institutional history and institutional leadership and we hear that many of those people may not return because they fear they will not be able to experience the same level of life. Once you lose that level of institutional leadership and institutional knowledge, it's not going to be replaced immediately and especially when you look at the fact that Katrina altered the demographics of New Orleans overnight.

Right now, we're assessing the needs of the students. Fortunately, they're on spring break right now, so we have the next week to really come up with an alternate plan for the rest of the semester.

Scheme-wise, you have to give coach Brock a lot of credit because he altered what they had been doing defensively to try and force Bo and receivers to have to step up and make some plays in the passing game. Bo did just that and he continues to get better each week. His potential is unlimited.

Principals have made alternate arrangements. Some are in media centers and some are doubled up in what would be places like art rooms, music rooms.

Our defense is gaining a reputation. People are saying 'What can we do?' because we're going to alter a shot if we're not blocking it.

David Hahn

Normal levels would be having two ships in the middle of the summer. I think we've got some hard work to do in finding alternate means.

A delay does not solve the (monorail) revenue problem. They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that you have to go back to the voters.

Greg Nickels

A delay does not solve the (monorail) revenue problem, ... They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that you have to go back to the voters.

Substantial loss of life would obviously lead to a decline in economic output but we believe fear of infection, leading to drastically altered behavior, would result in the greatest economic damage.

Once you start changing factors of the use, you start altering that vestment. They're seeking to be classified as a multi-family facility, while retaining the right to rent daily.

George Harrison

Now as it gets into the mid to late 60's we found different outtakes or maybe a version of something that had some vocals that were different to the vocals that ended up on the master, so what we have done is present the alternate version. And we have tried to create a lot of the most famous songs but totally different versions of them.

Jennifer Taylor

Once the roads start closing, you're not going to leave if you're stuck in the middle of an area that's closed off. You'll have to find an alternate route.