Famous Quotes & Sayings

When IT (information technology) issues and other large-cap issues are down, the Nikkei cannot help but suffer.

We are being vigilant, ... The international community is more united than ever in making sure that Saddam Hussein cannot threaten us with his weapons of mass destruction.

Sylvia Plath

What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness

Ruth Reichl

What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.

Ted Stevens

We take the position that, if we're mandating this conversion, we cannot leave people behind.

Today, I cannot fight you anymore, but my grandson will and his grandsons, too.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

This will mean that they cannot imagine life without consumer-electronics devices.

Gary Shteyngart

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Elon Musk

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.

Elfriede Jelinek

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

Charles Peguy

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Brenton Huggins

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Desmond Bernal

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

Karen Finerman

You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Lydia Lunch

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

Lois Capps

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The people in the Valley are disappointed that they have such a huge drop-out rate, ... They tell me that their kids get lost when they drop out, and they cannot then catch on, and they don't go to vocational education. They just drift around. It's very hard for those kids to get jobs.

Suzy Menkes

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior - a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess.

Tom Shales

Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.

Azim Premji

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

The process is in trouble, we cannot continue this way, ... One option is simply for us to remove ourselves from the process.

Tom Bissell

I guess I would say that most of what I've learned about storytelling derives from novels and short stories. I cannot think of a novel or story, or a novelist or story writer, who thinks in terms of three-act structure.

Tim Gunn

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

Dirk Kempthorne

What we cannot have is grandparents competing with grandchildren for state resources.

George Clooney

What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away and hope that this will somehow disappear. It's the first genocide of the 21st century.

There are millions of pieces here that we cannot name because we don't have the research anymore. But that's the sad tale of Hollywood. You cannot name a major studio that did not at some time send things to the landfill.