Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Jeff Miller

It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.

Laundry is another issue to arise in the near future as these folks need clean clothes ... and as we get more people in there will be more of a demand for resources. A lot of these folks who've been in motels since Saturday are running out of money.

Recently, problems have arisen from countries not playing by the rules of the game. Certain Asian economies have been stifling the inflationary effects of their interventions and, in the process, building up massive amounts of foreign reserves.

Our lawyers have come up with all kinds of scenarios. A lot of possibilities have arisen and we have a lot of internal options floating around that I can't talk about.

Time is an illusion that arises from the educated perception of human senses and mind to the changes that happened. Stop the changes, or terminate the educated perception, then time will cease to exist.

Hjalmar Branting

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

We can think of changes to the oceans locally, but in terms of human health we have to look globally. This is a global connection. As we change ocean properties through climate change, remote consequences are likely to arise ? we may not even know what they are yet.

Marquis de Lafayette

I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.

Patrick O'Brian

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

Ray Comfort

According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

Steve Mann

Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.

Paul Di Filippo

Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike.

Kenneth Starr

We're deeply concerned and distressed that this issue has arisen in the first instance.

Ninette de Valois

Well it, nothing is done easily, you first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

Dan Brown

Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problem arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Rudyard Kipling

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures and balances? Which is his season For laughter, forbearance or bloodshed, and what devils move him When he arises to smite us? I do not love him

Michael Leunig

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

The abolishment could lead to a rise in coal prices immediately. Furthermore, increases may also arise in power tariff as a result of the country's price pass-through system.

We have not really had to require school concurrency. We have not had the situation arise where we had a project that would create a demand that great.

Agatha Christie

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

David Perry

The presence of British forces in Iraq was not unlawful. No question of any unlawful order being given arises in this case.

We are very open to opportunities - we get approached about companies all the time and, of course, we will evaluate any opportunity as it arises and give it due consideration.

Robert Kiyosaki

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.

Marcus Garvey

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

All these policies are subject to review at least once every five years. Five years from now some situations may have arisen that we did not anticipate.

Sherwin B. Nuland

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.

The multiple exercises proved invaluable is assessing the readiness of state emergency response plans generally and identifying specific challenges that might arise when responding to different types of emergencies. Putting a plan down on paper is really only the first step. Putting that plan through a test exercise really allows you to see what works well and what doesn't.

And when an opportunity arises the person that is given it has to make sure he takes it.

Each year, there are about 10,000 injuries associated with falling furniture in the home. Most of these arise from children being curious, climbing on TV stands, bookcases or dressers to reach their favorite toy, to see their favorite television station up close, or to push some buttons.