Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Yancey

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

Peter Singer

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

Sam Harris

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

I thought that changed the entire momentum of the game. It caused turnovers and we scored off transition. It put us in a comfort zone that I felt much better about.

I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion.

I think what we did was slack up on a lot of it, and that's what caused the problems. So when we rededicated ourselves, we went back to doing all of the things that made us a success in the beginning.

Bob Lutz

I think what happened was the manifest success of the Prius caused a rethink on everybody's part,

We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused by speeding and reckless driving, that speaks to enforcement.

We understand the inconvenience being caused to people because of the strike but there was no other option. The government has been ignoring our demand for so long.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This was a man-made disaster caused by the failure of the federal government to properly construct the levees and caused by the failure of the local guys to notice.

The past few days have been painful for everyone involved. But that is nothing compared to any offense that may have been caused to disabled people in our community and in our country.

Thomas Sowell

The physical devastation caused by Katrina has painfully revealed the moral devastation of our times.

There is a combo of factors. Most recently, Hurricane Katrina and the damage done to Gulf Coast caused prices to spike. But even prior to Katrina, prices were already higher than last year. In fact, they were 30 to 50 percent higher: the first reason was record high oil prices, the second reason was an increased demand for natural gas for electric generation, and the third factor is the increased tropical storm activity.

Ron Zook

We saw a lot of good things early on from the first team offense. When we got into the fast-tempo mode it caused the defense some problems.

Too many organizations caused certain inconveniences to the management. The integration will help Microsoft cut costs and, more importantly, increase synergy.

Tyson Foods is currently experiencing extremely difficult industry dynamics in two of its largest businesses, poultry and beef. This has severely pressured sales and profit margins and has caused Tyson Foods' credit ratings to deteriorate.

We can't tell whether the abrasion was caused by a brickbat, a gun, a knife or what,

James Hall

We are committed and intend to find out what caused this accident.

We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a sense that policy has been frozen by indecision.

We would have made these changes anyway, but Cabela's caused us to push up the timeline.

To this point in time he has been low key. He was a good fire fighter. He seemed to be dedicated to his job, never caused any trouble so to speak and was somewhat quiet.

P. J. O'Rourke

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.