Famous Quotes & Sayings

When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.

When we're in the spread, it's hard to guard. Joe's a capable player, and he really stepped up tonight and gave us what we needed.

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Nick Hanauer

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

Laura Bailey

It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

We didn't play with any enthusiasm or energy. We don't have it every night. That comes from heart and a passion for what you're doing. We don't have enough of that right now. We're capable of it, but we're not there right now.

We didn't play they way we were capable of, and we took a step backwards.

We are going to use our capital to invest in our own development of digital businesses,

Noam Chomsky

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

Brenton Thwaites

I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Andrew Mason

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.

Ben Shapiro

Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.

Andrew Nikiforuk

The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.

Alan Cooper

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

Larry Dixon

We're less than 100 points out of first place going into Indy and that's where we're at right now. If we're a car that's capable of winning the championship, than we're in pretty good shape.

We're kind of back to where we were four or five weeks ago. We're in this transitional environment, where after the December and early January run there seems to be a cap on the upside, but there's also no major negatives pulling us down.

Oscar Wilde

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Julie Gerberding

We still have no capacity to predict where it's going.

We still had high expectations coming into the season. There was no reason to drop them. We knew we had potential and we knew we had capable players coming in.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for love - it is part of our spiritual heritage.

We are confident we will capture larger market share with the increased footprint.

We are confident that tight and well-scheduled operations with sufficient capital expenditure will lead to more solid growth in reserves and production, securing stronger long-term growth for the company.

Kendrick Perkins

Yeah, he did. It's like this sometimes. I got on P because I know what he's capable of doing.

George Vecsey

Yankee caps pop up all over the world, not as a statement of loyalty to that team, but as a symbol of - what? Winning 27 so-called World Series? Much of the world doesn't even play that sport.

We've developed a capacity to win doubleheaders. It's been slow in coming, but we've learned how to be intense enough to be on top for 14 innings.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?

Parker Young

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

Pierre Omidyar

You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.

Peter Orszag

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

Peter Thiel

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.