Famous Quotes & Sayings

To have a former governor on trial is a big deal even for Illinois. It just reinforces what is a very cynical attitude among Illinois citizens about politics and politicians. Our expectations and our standards are pretty low. Our politicians try very hard to live up to those low standards.

Blaise Pascal

Thus our first interest and our first duty is to enlighten ourselves on this subject, whereon depends all our conduct. Therefore among those who do not believe, I make a vast difference between those who strive with all their power to inform themselv

Harry Markowitz

Diversifying sufficiently among uncorrelated risks can reduce portfolio risk toward zero. But financial engineers should know that's not true of a portfolio of correlated risks.

Hattie Morahan

Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.

Heber J. Grant

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.

We are seeing steady growth among craft brewers throughout the country, with specialty breweries leading the way.

We are seeing phenomenal growth in the SSL VPN market, with an average year-over-year increase of 40 percent, and Synergy acknowledges Array's contribution to this marketplace. By ranking among the top 6 SSL VPN solution providers, Array Networks has surfaced as one of the leading players in this competitive industry.

We are seeing increased steroid use in high school athletes. I believe it starts with dietary supplements among young people and then leads to anabolic steroid use and other performance-enhancing drug use.

We are really young, but (Swan's) success has helped our program to move forward. He was a great golfer and his success at the university and the world of golf is unparalleled among local golfers.

We are really excited about this new system and I think it will be popular among our campers who like to travel a little farther from home, but worry that all the campsites will fill before they arrive.

Xenophanes

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

X. J. Kennedy

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

Isabella Bird

I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Yuri Milner

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Virginia Postrel

Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

Virginia Postrel

Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Ezra Taft Benson

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Harsha Bhogle

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.

Harvey Pekar

I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.

Hassan Rouhani

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

We were a cult band before we released any albums. ... If it turned out that I was popular among some bastards, I would feel sad. We play for our people. Their number is growing and this is good.

We definitely have the skill, capability and confidence to be amongst the contenders for a medal the Games.

Gary Myers

We want to make sure horses and riders are safe amongst the public.

Jay Feaster

We want to improve our hockey club if we can. We have lines in the water, but there is nothing happening right now, nothing is imminent. A few of the teams that I have spoke with have mentioned that they have four or five games left before Thursday and there is still a sentiment among many teams on whether they are buyers or sellers. So from that standpoint it's a little more complicated because that hasn't really crystallized yet.

Steve Erickson

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.