Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geena Davis

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

When you go three games and only score three goals that is cause for concern. You just have to work through it, but there is no easy way to do that.

We always look at markets, and this is the classical market - and we have three of them. The merger of these three down to two would probably cause a competitive inquiry by somebody.

Gottfried Leibniz

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.

Harry Reid

I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy.

Deborah Mailman

I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like that today.

David Souter

We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

Without a determined constituency pressuring for engagement in international affairs, it would be likely that given the difficulties in Iraq you would have had the administration hunkering down a bit, and the American people with them. But instead, you have these substantial forces pushing on human rights causes and demanding intervention.

Joe Tripodi

With our innovative field goal net program, we wanted to include an element which we gave back to important causes. The donations to general scholarship funds and hurricane relief were money well-spent, benefiting two charities that we feel strongly about.

With so many things still to be explored with the causes of this most recent riot not fully understood, it seems to be a little premature to be thinking about extreme measures to control it,

James Smith

When the curve inverts, run for the exits. It will stay that way until the Fed realizes it caused a recession in 2007. Investors should start planning for a recession.

Torry Holt

When we played that first week out there (in San Francisco), they were moving around, and shifting and doing some things to cause problems.

We are excited about this discovery because it provides a genetic test that will lead to improved patient diagnoses, and gives us new insight into the causes of ataxia and other neurodegenerative diseases, an important step towards developing an effective treatment.

David Brown

Unemployment is on the upward march and that is hitting consumer optimism dramatically. In terms of the expected recovery in 2003 it will cause problems.

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is, one of the main causes of great political events

Under the Louisiana product liability statute, a manufacturer can be held liable for damage caused by a product that is unreasonably dangerous in design.

Frank Church

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

Lupe Fiasco

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

Lupe Fiasco

I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's just some oil.

Luigi Pirandello

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Otto Loewi

In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.

Rudolf Arnheim

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

Jane Goodall

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Geoff Mulgan

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

Thalia

When my daughter Sabrina was 2 years old, the pediatrician told me it was time she quit using a pacifier because that could make her teeth crooked and even cause infections in her ears.

Theodor Herzl

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

Joe Vitale

We have created a simple and honest way for contributors to help the victims by donating directly to one of three causes we have researched.

We're looking at a 9 percent correction. But at the end of the day, there's not enough pressure yet to cause a recession, so corporate earnings will continue to come through.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

The real question here is we don't know how large that impact is yet -- so this is a big source of uncertainty for the Fed and that does give them good cause to take a pause in their measured pace of tightening.

There are a lot of problems in the region and we should not do anything that would cause the situation to become even more complicated.

There are many theories but we don't know for sure what caused the accident, ... The prime minister instructed us to respond with urgency.

Flip Saunders

There are no unknowns at this point. But from their standpoint, the X-factor is that they are a team that takes as many three-pointers as anybody. If they get hot like they can, they can cause you a lot of problems. But, one of our strengths all year was defending the three. Hope that continues.