Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Felton

If a challenge arises that needs mathematics to solve it, I like to be able to know how to do it. I do find solving some things entertaining.

I think it is important to realize that the City/Agency obligation to pay severance could arise even days after the contract commences if Mr. Hanson's employment terminates for any reason.

It brings to mind all the potential cases that may arise there and in Iraq, in the future ? which takes it to a whole new level.

Francis Bacon

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Jose Rizal

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

B. F. Skinner

The governor has expressed a willingness to enter into a dialogue, should an opportunity to bring Major League Baseball to Virginia arise in the future.

Matthew Arnold

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject

Mark King

There is nothing that has arisen during consultation meetings to date that would require any extension of our due diligence process. We are comfortable with the process. There are still a number of issues which are open to discussion and finalization with the company but these do not require us to extend the consultation period.

Simon Baker

We will be continuing to look at new opportunities to move into new markets and if and when the opportunity arises and it fits and we have a clear and achievable strategy to enter that market, we will be making a move.

We had a foul to give and we were trying to knock the ball away and get under two seconds to make them take a wild shot. I thought if the lob to Reed wasn't there, their guard would step out on a backside screen and catch it and shoot it. Hopefully, we can learn from that when the situation arises again. But guys stepped it up when we needed to, and I'm very proud of them.

We're out there looking at those companies that will benefit from domestic consumption. What we're looking for are opportunities that will arise as we see the emergence of a middle class in China, the expansion of the middle class in India, and an enrichment of the middle class in South Korea.

Too many times when a problem arises or there is a hitch in a transaction, businesses tend to ignore it or hope it goes away.

Geoff Tate

We are sorry to lose Mark as he is a superb person, with extraordinary skill, experience and integrity. We understand corporate conflicts have arisen for Mark at his company that were not foreseeable at the time of his appointment. While we regret his decision to withdraw from the board, we nevertheless defer to his judgment as to the need to do so.

Samuel Johnson

With regard to the sharpest and most melting sorrow, that which arises from the loss of those whom we have loved with tenderness, it may be observed, that friendship between mortals can be contracted on no other terms than that one must some time mou

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.

Norman Vincent Peale

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me

Even though mutations per se may arise in fewer numbers in humans than in chimpanzees, those that matter will quickly spread. Mutations that are advantageous to the human, such as intelligence, probably are under strong natural selection.

Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.

Couples' wealth disagreements arise because men report higher values for the family assets, while women report larger values for the family's debts.

Ovid

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

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.

Variable pay is designed to help employees concentrate on company goals and objectives, while eliminating 'entitlement' issues that often arise with a holiday bonus.

The problem arises when people assume all cafes are like this. The more we become used to these large corporate chains telling us 'This is what life is like,' the less we become in charge of what life is like.

The private equity industry is growing and reaching potential investors it hasn't before, so it's important to understand the impact that has on the financial markets and the issues which might arise as a result.

John Updike

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

James Wolfensohn

I share with my colleagues the feeling of distress from the problems that have arisen on the streets,

Colin Powell

There are many roles to be played, and we believe that every peace-loving nation in the world -- every nation that would like to see a more stable Middle East, that would like to see a democracy arise in that part of the world -- would like to play a role,

Seth Shostak

Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

Guy Burgess

We can't make the whole system with which society deals with conflict perfect. Can't design it. But we can identify pathological dynamics that make it especially bad. And some of these we know how to fix. There are terrible conflicts that arise out of misunderstandings and people just think someone else is doing something terrible when they're not, and we know how to fix that.