Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trent Reznor

We know we cannot stop all ticket reselling, but if we can redirect some of that unauthorized margin to a good cause like the Innocence Project, it makes me feel like we have done something worthwhile.

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Teresa Heinz

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.

Steven Sinofsky

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building.

Scott Weiss

As a decision maker, you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you. As the CEO, however, you cannot rely solely on this information. You also need to 'dip' down into your organization and learn directly from employees at all levels and virtually all skill sets.

Vladimir Putin

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

Trey Anastasio

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

Troy Polamalu

My joy in my life comes from my strength in my life and in my experience with God. That cannot be separated from football. It is all the same to me. It is one. I am one with it.

Thomas Hardy

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Mann

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Torsten Wiesel

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.

Bikram Choudhury

You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.

Bikram Choudhury

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

Carrie Brownstein

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

Virginia Postrel

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.

John Howard

I think we have been silent for too long about the impact of some of these things. You cannot keep bombarding people with violent messages and anti-social messages without them having some impact.

I think we're probably two to three years away from coming up with a technique where we might be able to put an individual in an MRI scanner and say whether an individual is telling the truth or telling a lie. But I think we have the technology. I cannot say with a 100 percent certainty, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

Orison Swett Marden

If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

Orison Swett Marden

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Noam Chomsky

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

Alice Morse Earle

The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

Ali Babacan

We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.

Antoine Lavoisier

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Brian Greene

I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

We are currently investigating the claims, but cannot comment further on pending litigation.

This school cannot be about me, ... I've always had a vision that this school would continue to grow. I knew it couldn't stay this way.

Jackie Speier

To me, this kind of malfeasance or nonfeasance is precisely what the public cannot tolerate.

We're excited about banks. This is very much a consolidation story. The government has told Lloyds TSB it cannot increase market share in the UK through consolidation. It now needs to look to Europe.

We're excited about banks, ... This is very much a consolidation story. The government has told Lloyds TSB it cannot increase market share in the UK through consolidation. It now needs to look to Europe.

We're driving the cost. You cannot generate healthy profits if you don't get the volume in the low end.

We urge a clear and strict code of ethics with sanctions so that elected officials and special interests know what lines cannot be crossed.